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“Your Winning Team: Medicine and Complementary Therapies for Living Well with Parkinson’s"

  • Crowne Plaza Hotel 3 Executive Boulevard Suffern, NY, 10901 United States (map)

Sunday, October 26th, 10:00-3:00 pm

This year’s theme, “Your Winning Team: Medicine and Complementary Therapies for Living Well with Parkinson’s,” will guide a year-long series of impactful events and workshops.  Each program is carefully designed to inform, inspire, and build connections between patients, care partners, and the healthcare community.

“The Interplay of Medicine and Complementary Therapies in the Treatment of PD”

A Panel Discussion with Dr. Laurie Mischley, People with Parkinson’s, and Care Partners.  Dr. Laurie Mischley, ND, MPH, PhD, (Naturopathic Medicine, Epidemiology, Nutrition), built the Parkinson Symptom Tracking App, pd-symptoms.com, and is founder of the Parkinson Center for Pragmatic Research (CPR).  She created Parkinson-School.com in 2020 as a way to empower patients, and accelerate education.

Join us for an engaging discussion on care approaches for Parkinson’s. Be part of an enlightening event that brings together diverse perspectives on Parkinson’s care.  The program will feature a dynamic discussion between Dr. Laurie Mischley, and our three patient/care partner panelists, as they explore the complimentary treatments available in PD and how to protect the next generation from this chronic syndrome. Insights to research showing successful treatment and prevention will be discussed.   

Dr. Stuart Isaacson, Associate Professor of Neurology, FIU; Director, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center of Boca Raton, FL; Investigator on more than 75 clinical trials and member of the Parkinson Study Group and the Movement Disorders section of the AAN.Join us for an engaging discussion. Be part of an enlightening event that brings together diverse perspectives on Parkinson’s care.

The program will feature a dynamic discussion between Dr. Stuart Isaacson, Dr. Laurie Mischley, and Dr. Phil Schneider, a Speech Language Pathologist living with PD, as they explore the complimentary treatments available in PD and how to slow, stop, and reverse the progression and protect the next generation from this chronic syndrome. Insights to research showing successful treatment and prevention will be discussed.