Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Cure PSP Webinars

Richard recently received an email to participate in a series of webinars sponsored by Cure PSP. He attended and enjoyed Dr. Susan Perlman's webinar "Ataxia, OPCA & MSA-C Look-A-Likes of PSP, CBD & MSA" on September 17, 2009. Here is the link to the slides of her presentation.

There are a series of webinars that are available in the next few months. In case anyone is interested, I am duplicating the email invitation to participate:

Please immediately respond to this advance invitation to ensure yourself a seat at the Movement Disorder Specialists’ FREE Webinar series sponsored by CurePSP.

Dr. Neal Hermanowicz, October 8, 2009

Dr. Robert Hutchman, October 22, 2009

Dr. Yvette Bordelon, November 5, 2009

Dr. Lawrence Golbe, November 19, 2009

Dr. Jerome Lisk, December 3, 2009

As a friend of the CurePSP you are offered a special priority to register for this Webinar.

There is only a maximum of 1,000 seats (144 seats gone in the first few days) available for each of these Webinars. We suggest that you register early, as the limited number of world-wide seats will go very, very fast. Attending the last Webinar by Dan Brooks were people from not only the United States and Canada, but also from Great Britain, France, Andorra, Kuwait, Taiwan and Australia.

Reserve your Webinar seat RIGHT NOW by CTRL left clicking on the above red button to register or copying and pasting the below link into your Web Browser:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/747740042

DR. NEAL HERMANOWICZ attended Temple University for medical school. He completed a general medicine internship and residency in neurology at the University of Wisconsin and his Movement Disorders Fellowship with Drs. Anne Young and Jack Penney at the University of Michigan from 1989 to 1991. He is a fulltime faculty in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, Irvine where he is Health Sciences Professor of Neurology and has served as the director of the Movement Disorders Program since 1999. Dr. Hermanowicz also serves as the director for the Phillip & Carol Traub Center for Parkinson’s Disease of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA, a position he has held for 10 years. Dr. Hermanowicz is a clinician and is engaged foremost in patient care, but also clinical trials and research in the area of Movement Disorders.

Dr. Robert Hutchman completed his Movement Disorder Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN in 2002. His undergraduate medical training was completed at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI. Since completing his training he has served as Sub-Investigator on approximately ten (10) Phase 2 thru 4 clinical drug trials. Following that incredible opportunity to develop clinical research and deep brain stimulation surgery management skills, Dr. Hutchman entered private practice in Southern California. Since arriving in California, he has founded a private practice exclusively serving a unique patient population composed of neurodegenerative disorders. As the founder and Medical Director of Neurosearch, Dr. Hutchman has successfully administered ten (10) additional clinical trials.

Dr. YVETTE BORDELON received her MD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Her thesis work was performed with Dr. Marie-Francoise Chesselet and involved investigating mechanisms of cell death in an animal model of Huntington disease. She went on to residency training at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Womens Hospitals and then did a Movement Disorders Fellowship at Columbia University before joining the Neurology faculty at UCLA in 2004. Her clinical work involves the diagnosis and treatment of Movement Disorders and her clinical research interests include clinical trials and development of biomarkers of disease in this subspecialty.

DR. LAWRENCE I. GOLBE, (world renowned expert in PSP and CBD), a Movement Disorder Specialist and Professor of Neurology, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is on the CurePSP+ Board of Directors and the Chair of the CurePSP+ Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).

Dr. Jerome P. Lisk is a fellowship trained Movement Disorder Neurologist. He completed his fellowship at the University of Texas at Houston. He specializes in the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, Parkinson’s Plus Syndromes, Cervical Dystonia and other movement disorders. Dr. Lisk earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Lisk is Board Certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He also has an interest in dementia and sleep disorders. Dr. Lisk is on the staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital, Aurora Las Encinas Hospital, Casa Colina Hospital, Methodist Hospital and City of Hope Cancer Center all in Southern California.

Reserve your Webinar seat RIGHT NOW by CTRL left clicking on the above red button to register or copying and pasting the below link into your Web Browser:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/747740042


TITLE OF OCTOBER 8, 2009 PRESENTATION
“Fundamentals & Diagnosis of PSP, CBD, MSA and Related Brain Disorders”
Dr. Neal Hermanowicz

TITLE OF OCTOBER 22, 2009 PRESENTATION
“Interventions in PSP, CBD, MSA and Related Brain Disorders”
Dr. Robert Hutchman

TITLE OF NOVEMBER 5, 2009 PRESENTATION
“Latest Research in PSP, CBD, MSA and Related Brain Disorders”
Dr. Yvette Bordelon

TITLE OF NOVEMBER 19, 2009 PRESENTATION
“PSP, CBD, MSA and Related Brain Disorders Research for Dummies”
Dr. Lawrence Golbe

TITLE OF DECEMBER 3, 2009 PRESENTATION
“Two (2) hours of Medical Questions & Answers about PSP, CBD, MSA and Related Brain Disorders

Dr. Jerome Lisk

TIME
8:00 PM Eastern Time
7:00 PM Central Time
6:00 PM Mountain Time
5:00 PM Pacific Time

Daylight Savings Time in the United States reverts to Standard Time on the first Sunday in November, so times outside of the United States might change for the November and December Webinars.

1:00 AM United Kingdom/London Time (following day)
2:00 AM South Africa/Johannesburg Time (following day)
10:00 AM Australia/Sydney Time (following day)


DURATION
10 minute introduction
40 minute presentation
10 minute refreshment/toilet break
60 minutes of Questions and Answers

Patients, caregivers, family members and medical and healthcare professionals from across the United States and Canada and from most countries of the world can listen and/or view these live Webinar. The
presentation will provide guidelines to the diagnosis, treatments and research of Parkinsonism, also known as the Parkinson’s Plus Syndromes or Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders.

The upcoming Webinars are sponsored by CurePSP (Foundation for PSP | CBD and Related Brain Diseases).

You may listen and view each of the Webinars (via a slide show presentation) from the convenience of your home or office, using your computer and your attached speakers. This is FREE! No special computer software is necessary.

Or you may listen only to each of the Webinars using your land or mobile telephone. Line charges are your responsibility.

Reserve your Webinar seat RIGHT NOW by CTRL left clicking on the above red button to register or copying and pasting the below link into your Web Browser:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/747740042


How to address questions to the presenters:

v During the registration process you can ask one or more questions in the “Questions & Comments” box at the end of the registration form.

v Once you have registered for these Webinars you can, up to one (1) day prior to the start of each of the Webinars, e-mail the presenter a question at Webinar.Question@gmail.com .

v If you are listening and viewing the Webinar via your computer, you can submit your questions online via the Webinar's Instant Messaging (IM) service.

v If you are listening to the Webinar via your telephone, you will not be able to ask your questions.

If you have any questions, please contact the Webinar Organizer, Outreach & Education Committee, CurePSP+ at CurePSP.Webinar.Coordinator@gmail.com .

*A Webinar is a FREE computer based web conference with up to 1,000 people from around the world viewing the conference. It is typically one-way, from the presenter to the audience. The presenter speaks to the audience, using a computer attached microphone. He/she points out information being presented via the mouse pointer on the viewers home or office computer screen. It is also possible to just listen to the presentation via a land or mobile telephone. The cost of the telephone call is paid for by the listener.

Larry Schenker

Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders Support Groups
Southern California – Mexican border north to Santa Barbara & Kern Counties
Organizer & Co-Leader
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CurePSP+ (Foundation for PSP + CBD + Related Disorders)
Outreach and Education Committee Member
Webinar Organizer
Online Support Group Organizer
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Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Tel: (310) 441-1488 - E-mail: atypical.parkinsonian.disorder@gmail.com

If you want someone to be added to this meeting notice list, send an e-mail giving the person’s name and e-mail address to subscribe.ATP@gmail.com

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