Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) 50th Anniversary Educational Symposium

[Stitcher]

...will be WEBCAST


"The Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) is proud to webcast our 50th Anniversary Educational Symposium: Frontiers of Science and Clinical Advances in Quality of Life. This unique event, held Thursday and Friday, October 11-12, will be webcast live and will feature top-notch Parkinson's professionals presenting the latest in Parkinson's science and quality of life initiatives. The program, in two parallel tracks, will look at the progress that has been made over the last 10 years and where we expect to see future advances."

Even if you cannot make it to New York to attend the event, you can still learn about the most exciting news in Parkinson's science and care from the comfort of your own home! Click on the button below to register for our free webcast. The event will be shown live and will be archived on PDF's website for one year following the symposium."

"Webcast supported exclusively by HealthShares.."

Source: http://www.pdf.org/50th/webcast.cfm

For Program listing and Speaker bio's visit:
Program: http://www.pdf.org/50th/program.cfm
Bio's: http://www.pdf.org/50th/bios.cfm

The symposium will begin on Wed, October 11th and runs through the end of the day on the 12th.

Webcast Q&A (scroll down the page) http://www.pdf.org/50th/faq.cfm

:) :)

[jeanb]

I'll be there -looking forward to seeing Carolyn and others!!
:grouphug:

[Todd]

I'm going. Hope to see you both. Not looking forward to the cross country flight though... :eek:

[jeanb]

Todd - that's great - looking forward to seeing you there.

Boy travel from the west coast to NYC is a punishment. 5 hours from Phoenix- longer from So California I am sure.

Some of us are trying to share a cab ride from JFK to the hotel. I'll email you for your schedule.

[Stitcher]

Todd, I have traveled from Central Florida...before moving to PA...to Northern California several time. (It is where I was on 9/11...ugh...the day I was to fly home. Took me four days to find a way home to FL...what a mess for travelers that week.) It is not a good trip for any PWP...too many hours of sitting and sitting with NO LEG ROOM.

I am taking Amtrak out of Harrisburg into Penn Station...3 hour. So, my trip will be an easy one...lots of leg room!

Hope you have planned on what sessions you will attend. It is hard to choose, but both my current neurologist and my Univ of Maryland neurologist are speaking, so that is :cool: with me.

:)

[Stitcher]

AND it WAS an awesome celebration indeed!!


The Parkinson's Disease Foundation Commemorates its 50th Anniversary with Special Scientific Symposium on Parkinson's Disease

NEW YORK, October 10, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To mark 50 years of service to the Parkinson's community, the Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) will present an authoritative round-up of the state of Parkinson's research at a two-day symposium on Thursday, October 11 and Friday, October 12. The jam-packed program will feature 43 top-notch Parkinson's professionals presenting the latest news in Parkinson's science and quality of life initiatives.

The meeting, entitled Frontiers of Science and Clinical Advances in Quality of Life, will be open to everyone touched by Parkinson's disease including researchers, clinicians, allied health professionals, people with Parkinson's and caregivers. It is being jointly sponsored by PDF and The Movement Disorders Society and will be held in the historic South Street Seaport district of lower Manhattan.

READ FULL ARTICLE (http://www.engelpub.com/News/Index.cfm?articleid=483137)

:grouphug: Tons of hugs to all PDF and staff do for the PD community!

[Paul Wicks]

Hi all! Some of you may have seen me at the PatientsLikeMe stand, just thought I'd say hi! It was a really good meeting, very upbeat and positive. Hope those who took them are wearing their t-shirts with pride!

Paul Wicks, PhD
Research Scientist
PatientsLikeMe.com

[paula_w]

I stopped there but didn't catch names- I wish I had known. Did you talk to others from the forum?

paula

[Stitcher]

Paul, it was great to meet all three of you and chat at length about the website project. And thanks for the T-shirt.

As promised I will double post news items as I find them.

[aftermathman]

go on then, give us the key take home messages.

Neil.

[paula_w]

I thought the PDF Symposium was excellent - an amazing amount of information was
squeezed into the 2 days. Lots of notes to go through, but the highlight of the conference for me was hearing Dr. Jeffrey Kordower, who did the oriignal preclinical GDNF studies with monkeys, and is now working with Ceregene in the development of CERE-120 (neurturin) state publicly that the decision not to use GDNF in further clinical studies was not a scientific decision, but was due to Amgen not allowing other researchers to use GDNF in clinical trials. These few words spoke volumes to me!
You can view the webcast of the entire symposium at
http://www.pdf.org/50th/webcast.cfm (http://www.pdf.org/50th/webcast.cfm)

From Linda Herman


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[RLSmi]

I watched the webcast live in my office. It was awsome! I watched quite a few of both the scientific basic science and medical/QOL presentations. They were all of topnotch quality. The WPC format, with both scientific and patient-oriented sessions with everyone participating was the secret; that, and the excellent quality of the speakers. The whole thing is available now at the PDF website. If you haven't seen it yet, it is definitely worth your time.
Robert

[Stitcher]

Just received email from PDF...The Webcast of the symposium will be available in two weeks.

So, if you miss the live-cast, you will be able to hear and see the syposuim in early November.

Watch for it to appear on www.pdf.org website.

[Paul Wicks]

The webcast is now available online. As I was up to my neck in t-shirts during the talks I didn't actually get to see any myself (doh!) so I'm going to start watching them tonight. I'll also post some summary comments after each one over on the PD forum on PatientsLikeMe.

We're currently looking at communities for people with PD-plus like Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Multiple System Atrophy too if anyone's got any views they'd like to share with me on those.

Edited to say: The link I was sent went to the wrong area, it went to the "live" broadcast not the archive. Try this link: http://event.netbriefings.com/event/pdf/Archives/50th/

Cheers

Paul