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2008 Consortium Conference Presentations
National VA Parkinson's Disease Consortium Conference
Sheraton Station Square
September 4-5, 2008
To download the presentations, please select and click on the presenters name in the right column.
| Toward a Unified Hypothesis of Parkinson's Pathogenesis | Timothy Greenamyre, MD, PhD Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases Director |
| Debate 1: Premotor PD can be diagnosed | Pro: Matthew Stern, MD Philadelphia PADRECC Co- Director Con: Webster Ross, MD Honolulu Consortium Center Director |
| Debate 2: Initiation of therapy should be delayed until symptoms become disabling or bothersome | Pro: Eugene Lai, MD |
| Debate 3: Continuous dopaminergic stimulation minimizes levodopa-induced motor complications | Pro: Jeff Bronstein, MD, PhD Southwest PADRECC Director Con: Ergun Uc, MD Iowa City Consortium Center Director |
| Debate 4: DBS utilization will expand in the treatment of PD in the future | Pro: William Marks, MD |
| Debate 5: Dementia in PD is due to diffuse Lewy body disease | Pro: Jim Leverenz, MD Northwest PADRECC Con: John Duda, MD(2) Philadelphia PADRECC Director |
| Approaches to Managing Neuropsychiatric Complications | Daniel Weintraub, MD Philadelphia PADRECC |
| Approaches to DBS Programming | William Marks, MD San Francisco PADRECC Susan Heath, RN, MS San Francisco PADRECC *Supplemental article for review* |
| Information from the HSR&D PADRECC Evaluation | Marty Charns, DBA Irene Cramer, PhD, MSSA, LICSW VA Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research |
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