Veronica Santini, MD, MA, a movement disorder specialist at Stanford, will be talking about constipation and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) at the Menlo Park PD support group meeting on Wednesday, February 13, 2 – 3:30pm, at Little House. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.
Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD, MSE, Director, Stanford Movement Disorders Center, will discuss the latest in deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s Disease at the Tuesday, February 12, YOPD support group meeting at the Board Room, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford. Her talk is titled “Sensing Brain Rhythms Enable Personalized Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation.” The meeting starts at 6:30pm. The event is free and open to those diagnosed with PD by the age of 50 or younger and their family members. An RSVP 24 hours in advance is requested to the group leader…. Full Story>
Casey H. Halpern, MD, Neurosurgeon, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center, will be discussing “Advanced Treatments for Advanced PD and Tremor-What to do when the Medications Start Failing,” at the Clovis/Greater Fresno Parkinson’s Support group meeting on Saturday, February 9, from 10:00am to Noon. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.
Many Northern and Central California Parkinson’s Disease (PD) support groups meetings have speakers or discussion programs planned in February 2019. See the list below of what’s happening near you…… Full Story>
On January 15th, the Davis Phinney Foundation presented a webinar on building resilience while living with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), intended for both those with PD and care partners. The speaker, Judy Long, is an outpatient palliative care chaplain at UCSF. In this webinar Judy explains that it is only when we notice feeling upset or threatened that we can make a choice about how to respond. If we don’t notice how we feel we have little hope of making a choice of how to respond and will only react instinctively. Judy presents four obstacles to resilience and tools to overcoming each through intention and practice. We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach listened to this webinar and are sharing our notes.
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