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TULIP PROJECT VICTORY GARDEN:
Currently under design, the garden, being developed by a Horticultural Therapist with a Landscape Architect, is to be situated near the entrance of Boulder Stadium. The garden will be dedicated as a public space for meditation and reflection throughout the year, and as an inspiration for bringing a cure.
TULIP PROJECT MUSIC VIDEO:
Arlon Bennett, PD activist and long time supporter of PWP, presents a new song to tell the story of the Victory Garden and our TulipFest, to be included in the World Parkinsons Congress in Barcelona, 2023
SUNSET CONCERT:
As part of the Tulip Fest program, live music will be presented in the Concourse of Boulder Stadium, accommodating several hundred people from the pd community.
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PEOPLE
PROGRAM Speakers: Harriet Cornell, Rockland Legislator, Dr. Joohi Shahed, Medical Director, Mt Sinai West, Eli Pollard, WPC Executive Director, Dr. Phil Schneider, PWP Ambassador, Mike Fine, Comedian/MC
Musicians Nenad Bach, Arlon Bennett, and Yanky Lemmer
Health Instructors David Leventhal, Alex Tressor, Yuri Milshtein, Cecilia Fontanesi
Harriet Cornell was elected to the Rockland County Legislature in 1983 and re-elected every four years since. She was elected Chair of the Legislature in 2005 and re-elected each year through 2013—the only person to be elected Chair for more than four consecutive years.
During her first year on the Legislature, Mrs. Cornell founded the Legislature’s Commission on Women’s Issues and invited community leaders to participate in the formulation of public policy. The ambitious work of this Commission included the creation of the Rockland Housing Action Coalition to address affordable housing issues; the Child Care Coalition to focus on quality, affordable child care; the opening of the county’s AIDS Clinic as a direct result of the Commission’s public hearings on HIV/AIDS in Rockland; gynecological care for uninsured and under-insured women; youth employment programs; care for the aging; outreach for breast cancer detection; education about heart disease; and the formation of STOP F.E.A.R., a coalition to stem the scourge of domestic violence. Mrs. Cornell was a founder of Rockland Schools of the 21st Century, also known as Rockland 21C, which she has chaired for 21 years. The goal of this collaborative not-for-profit organization is to ensure the best possible future for every child by building a comprehensive support system that links family, school and community. It has instituted 46 Family Resource Centers in the public schools of eight Rockland school districts and runs a literacy-based home visiting program for toddlers.
As a Legislator, Cornell’s priorities have included the protection of our environment, enhanced educational resources, arts in public places, improved health services for women and children, providing much-needed assistance to Rockland’s aging population; homeland security, Rockland’s transportation system and the future of the Tappan Zee Bridge-I87/287 corridor.
Reports she has produced with recommendations for public policy action include: Project Tomorrow: Aging in Place, on how to make Rockland more senior friendly; Access to Health Care–the reality and recommendations/; Report on Women, Drugs & Alcohol; Healthy Bodies & Healthy Minds: A Vision for the Children of New York State; Rockland’s Voices Making the Case for Amending the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002. Her initiation and development of a County Comprehensive Plan for use by county, towns and villages was done with community input and adopted by the County in 2011—a major achievement.
Legislator Cornell chairs the Rockland County Task Force on Water Resources Management, which was created by resolution of the Rockland County Legislature and signed by the County Executive in 2014 to reflect Cornell’s proposal to the NYS Public Service Commission that Rockland County was capable of planning its own water future and did not need a desalination plant on the Hudson River as proposed by United Water NY. Subsequently the PSC ordered SUEZ (UWNY) to abandon its proposed plant.
Harriet’s long record of accomplishments, her life-long interest in the well-being of children and families, and her forthright and outspoken beliefs have resulted in recognition by a number of prestigious organizations and institutions, including: The Journal News, which named her as one of 25 people who made the greatest impact on Rockland County during the 20th Century and the first-ever Good Housekeeping/Ford Foundation Award which was presented to Harriet in Washington, D.C. for her efforts which demonstrate how government can improve people’s lives.
Mrs. Cornell is a graduate of Swarthmore College and received her M.P.A. degree from N.Y.U. Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy. She was married for 48 years to attorney J. Martin Cornell until his death in 2002. They have four children and three grandsons.
Elizabeth "Eli" Pollard has been with the World Parkinson Coalition from its inception in 2004 and helped steer the organization, alongside world renowned Parkinsonologist and WPC founder, Dr. Stanley Fahn. Together they worked to grow WPC Inc. from its sole purpose, of hosting a triennial global Congress on Parkinson's disease, to its more meaningful place in the community today, as a hub for many of the global PD organizations to connect and intersect online, on teleconferences, or in person at the Congresses. Eli is thrilled with the opportunity to meet the members of the community, to help build the WPC Legacy, and to watch as leading researchers, clinicians, people with Parkinson's and others work together to bring us closer to finding the cause(s) of Parkinson's and a cure for the disease. Eli graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor's degree, and the School for International Training with a Master's degree in International & Intercultural Management. She spent most of her 20s living outside the US in Zimbabwe, Switzerland, and Japan with lengthy stays for research or travel in India, China, and Thailand. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two rambunctious children who keep her on her toes when she's not knee deep in WPC work.
Dr. Jimenez-Shahed is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Medical Director, Movement Disorders Neuromodulation and Brain Circuit Therapeutics. After completing her undergraduate degree at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Jimenez-Shahed received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Neurology residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She then completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinical (PDCMDC) at BCM. Her research interests lie in investigating the intraoperative neurophysiology of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders.
Dr. Jimenez-Shahed serves as Chair of the Functional Neurosurgical Working Group of the Parkinson Study Group, and is the lead investigator for RAD-PD: a national quality improvement registry for patients undergoing DBS surgery for Parkinson’s disease. She is also an investigator with the Huntington Study Group, Dystonia Coalition and TSA International Database of DBS Studies in Tourette syndrome. She currently serves on the Science Advisory Board of the Davis Phinney Foundation and the Medical Advisory Board of the Tourette Association of America and has chaired the Medical Advisory Board for the Houston Area Parkinson Society. She has served as Principal Investigator for industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trials and has authored several papers and book chapters.
She is the recipient of the Roy H. Cullen Quality of Life Award (Houston Area Parkinson Society), the Rising Star Clinician Award (BCM), the Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching and Evaluation (BCM) and the Healthcare Heroes Award for Outstanding Health Care Practitioner (Houston Business Journal). She was recognized as a Woman of Excellence at BCM and is a 2018 graduate of the inaugural Women Leading in Neurology program of the American Academy of Neurology.
Dr. Jimenez-Shahed offers telemedicine appointments when appropriate. Please call her office to schedule a video visit.
Dr. Jimenez-Shahed is registered to provide telehealth services in Florida.
Phil Schneider, Ed.D. CCC-SLP is the founding partner of Schneider Speech Pathology. Recognized as a master clinician and teacher, he has been practicing and teaching for over 40 years. He holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Communication Disorders at Queens College, CUNY.
Phil has been honored with the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association Distinguished Clinician Award, the New York City Speech-Language-Hearing Association Professional Achievement Award, and the Queens College Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2004 he was named the Speech Pathologist of the Year by the National Stuttering Association; in 2006 he was awarded the highest Honors of the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association and in 2013 he was give the Advocacy Award by the Stuttering Association of the Young (SAY). Phil is a spokesperson for the Stuttering Foundation of America and has appeared on NBC, ABC and WOR-TV; he has presented more than 200 inspirational and innovative seminars across the United States and around the world.
His first documentary, “Transcending Stuttering: The Inside Story” aired on PBS Channel 13 in 2004, it has been viewed (free) online by tens-of-thousands of people worldwide. It is viewed and studied in universities around the country. His second documentary, “Going with the Flow: A Guide to Transcending Stuttering” featured the process of therapy including real footage of Dr. Schneider engaging two young adults who stutter. His other publications include basic vocal physiology as well as applied clinical topics related to voice disorders, stuttering and principles of therapeutic change.
He enjoys roller-blading, hiking and spending time with his family.
Nenad Bach is a recording artist, composer, performer, producer, and peace activist who took up table tennis to improve his condition and regain the ability to play musical instruments. He is the founder of PingPongParkinson.org
Arlon Bennett, “Warrior against Parkinson's Disease” and founder of 'The Healing Project,’ writes songs that have been compared to the paintings of Norman Rockwell — musical vignettes that vividly depict American life, past and present.
Cantor Yaakov “Yanky” Lemmer is one of the leading young cantors on the cantorial horizon. His beautiful lyric tenor voice, dramatic color, and precise coloratura have garnered him universal praise among his peers and connoisseurs alike.
Mike Fine is an American stand-up headlining comedian, writer, actor, producer and ordained Rabbi. He’s also founder and President of Roasted Daily Productions, Inc., a boutique creative content development and consulting firm offering an array of personal services to a diverse mix of A-List Celebrities, and Pro- Athletes, including numerous Oscar, Grammy, Emmy nominated artists and performers. Mike’s clients have appeared on Comedy Central, HBO, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, Late Show with Stephen Colbert and David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, America’s Got Talent, Howard Stern, as wells as countless other TV and Radio programs.
A frequent guest on TV and radio programs, including FOX NEWS, WPIX, AXS TV, SIRIUS XM, BLOOMBERG, WOR, WABC, RED STATE TALK RADIO, he’s appeared in feature films, including an appearance in the Award winning Documentary “WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY”. Fine, has also starred in multiple pilots one of which for VICELAND and is currently starring as a recurring judge in the official OFF – BROADWAY production of “THE GONG SHOW LIVE”. Mike has also been featured in The New York Post, New York Daily News, along with write ups in Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, Gothamist, EliteDaily, US Magazine, and countless other print and digital publications worldwide.
After co-starring and co-writing three seasons of the cult hit cable show “The Ferris Butler Program”aired on, Manhattan’s Time Warner Cable, with former Saturday Night Live writer Ferris Butler, Mike went on to become an accredited staff writer for the New York Friars Club Roast of Quentin Tarantino, Jack Black , Dennis Rodman, Boomer Esiason, Padma Lakshmi, and Ricky Schroder. After quickly establishing himself as one of the industries leading joke writers, Mike went on to write and coach performers appearing on Comedy Central’s – Roast Battles.
Combining his passions as a performer and a member of the clergy, Mike set out and founded the Jewish Burial Fund for the Performing Arts, which is a non for profit charity aimed at assisting and providing traditional Jewish burials for artistic individuals who lack the means and resources to do so. The funds currently seeking a 501-c3 status.
Rabbi Fine holds a Master of Divinity, he received his rabbinic ordination from Kollel Ayshel Avraham Rabbinical Seminary and earned his Bachelor’s of Talmudic Law from Neveh Tzion College of Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, Israel. He is also a member of the Rabbinical Alliance of America Igud Harabonim, and serves as a Chaplain with the New York State Chaplain Task Force, since 2016.
DAVID LEVENTHAL (Program Director and founding teacher) leads classes for people with Parkinson’s disease around the world and trains other teachers in the Dance for PD® approach. Since 2007, he has trained more than 2,000 teachers in the Dance for PD® approach in 25 cities around the world. He’s co-produced five volumes of a successful At Home instructional video series for the program and has been instrumental in initiating and designing innovative projects involving live streaming and Moving Through Glass, a dance-based Google Glass App for people with Parkinson’s. He received the 2018 Martha Hill Mid-Career Artist Award, a 2016 World Parkinson Congress Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Parkinson’s Community and was a co-recipient, with Olie Westheimer, of the 2013 Alan Bonander Humanitarian Award from the Parkinson’s Unity Walk. He has written about dance and Parkinson’s for such publications as Dance Gazette and Room 217, and has contributed chapters to Moving Ideas: Multimodal Learning in Communities and Schools (Peter Lang), and Creating Dance: A Traveler’s Guide (Hampton Press). He is in demand as a speaker at international conferences and symposiums, and has spoken about the intersection of dance, Parkinson’s and health at the Lincoln Center Global Exchange, Edinburgh International Culture Summit, University of Michigan, Rutgers, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Brown, Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown, Tufts, Harvard Medical School, Peking Union Medical Center, and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, among others. He serves on the boards of the Davis Phinney Foundation and the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program, as well as the Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation. He is a founding member of the Dance for Health Committee at IADMS. He’s participated in the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Emerging Leaders Boot Camp and the American Express Leadership Academy. Leventhal designed and currently teaches a pioneering dance-based elective course that is part of the Narrative Medicine curriculum at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He’s featured in the award-winning 2014 documentary Capturing Grace directed by Dave Iverson. As a dancer, he performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 1997-2011, appearing in principal roles in Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare. He received a 2010 Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) for his performing career with Mark Morris. He graduated from Brown University with honors in English Literature.
Alexander Tressor
There are many terms I could use to describe myself: I'm a Russian immigrant, a former Broadway dancer, a Ballet teacher, a choreographer, a hockey enthusiast, a chef, and, sometimes I have a tremor, sometimes I have difficulty walking... all the time, I have Parkinson's Disease.
I grew up in the U.S.S.R., and immigrated to New York as a teenager. After a few years of ballet training, I became a professional ballet dancer, morphing into a Broadway dancer. Eventually, I began teaching ballet. I taught for years at Steps Studios on Broadway in New York City, and as a guest teacher throughout the world, including as a U.S. Cultural Envoy to Kosovo. I am still an active ballet master, currently working in South Carolina.
In 2007, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. My diagnosis came after a needless shoulder surgery, and a lot of frustration surrounding the uncertainty of what was going on with the rigidity and tremors I was experiencing. When I finally got the diagnosis of PD, I was not relieved. I was shocked, particularly after I heard "there is no cure". Rather than waiting for Michael J. Fox to come back from the future with a cure, I decided to find a way to minimize PD symptoms. With modifications to my diet, exercise routine, and overall lifestyle, I noticed considerable improvement in my tremors, cognitive functions, mood, and overall stability.
As my PD progresses, I keep fighting back by counteracting what PD is doing to my mind and body. I do this by finding new ways to exercise, address my nutrition, and practice stress reduction techniques. In 2014, I developed Parkinson's on the Move classes for Stamford Hospital's Tully Heath Center. Encouraged by the progress of my students, I set out to expand my program of exercises to help PD patients at any stage of progression.
Yuri Milshtein, Sensei, 3rd Degree Black Belt, began his official training in martial arts in 1987 at TSK United American Karate, in Central Nyack, NY. Over the next decade he competed at various martial arts tournaments and won numerous awards.
Over the years, Sensei Yuri took breaks from his training to fulfill his military duty obligations, as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Military Police Corp and for his scholastic studies at S.U.N.Y. Rockland, where he received an A.A.S. degree in Criminal Justice and a Certificate of study in Emergency Medicine.
In May of 2003 he completed the Karate Instructor program at Long Island University School of Sport Sciences and continued his martial arts training, intensely, with the World Survival Hisardut Organization. After years of training and working as the program director and instructor, Sensei Yuri earned his 1st Degree Black Belt in 2009, and also received the title of Sensei, under Grandmaster Moti Horenstein.
Yuri is also certified as an instructor of Rock Steady Boxing, helping people with Parkinson’s improve their quality of life through a non-contact boxing based fitness curriculum.
Cecilia Fontanesi is a dancer, aerialist, contact improviser, movement analyst, dance/movement therapist and neuroscientist. She graduated from the Laban / Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS, New York) where she currently teaches as Core Faculty. In 2015, she co-founded the collective of dancers Parcon NYC, dedicated to exploring the relationship with the environment through movement and social reflection. Since 2016, she works as a dance/movement therapist with people with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and dementias. In 2017, she started serving as Artistic Director Associate for the IDACO (Italian DAnce COnnection) festival in NYC. Cecilia completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience on Dance for Parkinson’s at the Graduate Center (CUNY, New York).
overtimedancefoundation.org/cecilia-fontanesi
parconhub.com/parcon-nyc
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