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  • Due to the Coronavirus, a final decision will be made on April 1, 2020 regarding whether or not the Symposium will be held as scheduled. Please stay tuned for more information.

  • PARKINSON’S DISEASE SYMPOSIUM

  • SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2020 | 8:00am – 4:00pm

  • TOYOTA OAKDALE THEATER

  • REGISTER HERE!
    Join us for the 5th annual Southern New England Parkinson’s Disease Symposium and Expo on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at the Toyota Oakdale Theater in Wallingford! The forum will feature a number of experts in the field to discuss today’s cutting edge research and technology. Last year’s forum attracted a crowd of over 400 attendees.

  • REGISTER HERE!

  • 2020 Symposium Schedule
    8:00 – 9:00 Arrival with Coffee and pastries

    8:00 – 4:00 Visit the Exhibitor tables and sponsors

    9:00-9:45 Joseph Friedman MD – Chief of Movement Disorder Division at Butler Hospital, and Professor at Brown University, Providence RI
    “Improving Behavioral Aspects of Parkinson’s Disease”

    10:00-10:45 Amar Patel MD – Movement Disorder Specialist, Yale New Haven Hospital
    “New Parkinson’s Drugs on the Horizon”

    11:00-11:45 Claire Henchcliffe MD- Movement Disorder Specialist, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY “Parkinson’s Disease: Promise and Progress in Stem Cell and Gene Therapies”

    11:45 – 1:15 Lunch and Ask the doctors
    Attending Doctors: Lynn Acton, Michelle D’agostine, Joy De Marcaida, Jason Gerard,
    Maria Moro-de- Casillas, Sule Tinaz, Daniel Zanchetti gastroenterologist, Christine Kim

    1:15 – 2:00 Duarte Machado MD – Movement Disorder Specialist, Hartford Healthcare
    “Relieving Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis in Parkinson’s Disease”

    2:15 – 3:00 Eric Secor MD, PhD, LAC – Chief Integrative Medicine, Hartford Hospital
    “Integrated and Alternative Therapies and nutrition”

  • Questions:
    Ray Figlewski, Co-chair PD Symposium, 203-464-0382

    Allyson Kinney, Co-chair PD Symposium, 203-996-8861