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Having trouble finding an MDS (Movement Disorder Specialist)? Join us for this informative meet and greet designed to help you connect and learn more about the new doctors in your area. Each doctor will share some highlights about their background and expertise **Can't make this date? Register to receive a link to the recording.** About our speakers: Cedars Sinai Dr. Amir Ali Badiei is a Neurology Specialist in Beverly Hills, California. He graduated with honors from Saint Louis University School Of Medicine in 2015. UCLA Dr. Katherine Fu is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She graduated with degrees in neuroscience and biological sciences from the University of Southern California and obtained her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. As a clinician-educator, she has a strong interest in medical education, having completed the Certificate Program in Innovations in Curriculum Design and Evaluation and the Fellowship in Medical Education Scholarship offered at UCLA. She is currently the Associate Program Director for the Neurology Residency Program at UCLA. She is also pursuing an online Masters in Education for Health Professionals at Johns Hopkins University. In regards to clinical research, she […]

  Join us to learn more about the latest advances in DBS and Parkinson's. **Can't make this date? Register to receive a link to the recording.** About our speakers: Dr. Tyler Cheung is a board-certified neurologist with a focus on Parkinson's disease and movement disorders. He completed his training in Albany, NY, and Boston, MA, and subsequently completed two fellowships in movement disorders and deep brain stimulation. Dr. Igor Fineman is a board-certified neurosurgeon and spine specialist practicing in Pasadena CA. He specializes in the surgical treatment of brain and spine disorders, as well as CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery. Dr. Fineman has focused his surgical practice on the treatment of movement disorders like PD and essential tremor. He completed his studies, internship and residency at UCLA. Jennifer Birch, RN completed her training as a Nurse Practitioner with an emphasis in the neurosciences at UCLA and went on to obtain more than 10 years of experience as a Registered Nurse at USC University Hospital in the intensive care unit, seizure monitoring unit and telemetry units prior to completing her advanced care nursing training. Jennifer has provided specialized neurosurgical care for more than a decade. -- This event is part of PCLA's "Let's […]

  Join us to learn more about the environmental risk factors for Parkinson's. **Can't make this date? Register to receive a link to the recording.** About our speaker: Beate Ritz, MD, Ph.D. is a Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences and Neurology at UCLA.  Her research focuses on environmental and genetic factors that influence the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Measurement and modeling of environmental factors has been a special focus of her lab for decades. She is the principle investigator of two of the largest community-based studies of Parkinson’s disease worldwide located in the central valley of California and in Denmark. These studies identified environmental risk factors for Parkinson’s disease onset and progression using geographic information systems as well as metabolomic, genomic, and epigenomic approaches; most recently, her lab she has started to integrate the gut microbiome into these investigations. She is the Past President and a Fellow of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), has served on numerous National Academy of Sciences and California State Scientific Advisory panels and committees, and recently received the Society for Epidemiology Research (SER) Ken Rothman Career Achievement Award. -- This event is part of PCLA's "Let's Talk Parkinson's" series of live […]

  Join us for a conversation about the latest research from Tass Lab, which is designed to impact the course of diseases like Parkinson’s, stroke and tinnitus, with the possibility of influencing numerous other diseases. Their technology appears to induce long-lasting relief with stimulation that is only delivered for a few hours on an intermittent or regular basis. About our speaker: Dr. Peter Tass investigates and develops neuromodulation techniques for understanding and treating neurologic conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, dysfunction following stroke and tinnitus. He creates invasive and non-invasive therapeutic procedures by means of comprehensive computational neuroscience studies and advanced data analysis techniques. The computational neuroscience studies guide experiments that use clinical electrophysiology measures, such as high density EEG recordings and MRI imaging, and various outcome measures. He has pioneered a neuromodulation approach based on thorough computational modelling that employs dynamic self-organization, plasticity and other neuromodulation principles to produce sustained effects after stimulation. To investigate stimulation effects and disease-related brain activity, he focuses on the development of stimulation methods that cause a sustained neural desynchronization by an unlearning of abnormal synaptic interactions. He also performs and contributes to pre-clinical and clinical research in related areas. -- This event is […]