Two Hundred Years of
Parkinson’s Disease:
From Back to the Future
5th Annual Parkinson’s Disease
Patient & Caregiver Symposium
Saturday, June 10, 2017
MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative
Disease
Charlestown Navy Yard
114 16th Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02129
Registration
Please call (617) 643-0654
Pre-registration strongly encouraged.
Registration is free. Seating is limited.
Partners Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Center
National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Schedule
8:30 – 9:00 am: Check in and Registration
9:00 am
Welcome and Introduction
9:15 am
PD: Looking Back, Moving Forward
John Growdon, MD
9:50 am
Dopamine: A Great Awakening
Albert Hung, MD, PhD
10:25 am
Break
10:50 am
-Synuclein: Discovering the Core
Michael Schwarzschild, MD, PhD
11:25 am
The Electric Brain: DBS and Beyond
Todd Herrington, MD, PhD
12:00 pm
Questions and Answers
12:30 pm
Close
Speakers
John Growdon, MD
Unit Chief, Partners Parkinson Disease and Movement
Disorders Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Albert Hung, MD, PhD
Center Director, NPF Center of Excellence
Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael Schwarzschild, MD, PhD
Chair, Parkinson Study Group Executive Committee
Massachusetts General Hospital
Todd Herrington, MD, PhD
Director, Deep Brain Stimulation Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
We thank the National Parkinson Foundation
for their support.