Running Better: Understanding Your Gut
Dr. Laurie Mischley will be back with us to delve deeper into the topic of Extraintestinal Dysfunction in PD: You Can’t Trust Your Gut, discussing GI problems that manifest outside the gut, including weight loss, skin, hair, fatigue, cognition.
Dr. Ronald Pfeiffer, Movement Disorder Neurologist at OHSU, will be speaking on Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease.
A short yoga movement demonstration with Lizzie Lasater, to help keep you flowing, will be included.
Our host is Dr. Michael Rezak, who will also lead the Q&A.
Laurie K Mischley, ND, MPH, PhD(c), studied naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University, and epidemiology and nutritional sciences at the University of Washington.
The focus of her work is on describing conditionally essential nutrients in Parkinson’s disease (PD), attempting to describe the nutritional status and requirements unique to individuals with neurodegenerative diseases. She has published on coenzyme Q10 deficiency in PD, completed her master’s thesis on lithium deficiency in PD, and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on glutathione in PD. In 2013, she and her team completed a “Phase I Safety & Tolerability Study of Intranasal Glutathione in PD.”
Dr. Mischley is a clinical research assistant professor at Bastyr University, where she is principal investigator of other PD studies including, “CAM Care in PD” and “Cannabis in PD Tremor.”
Her clinical practice at Seattle Integrative Medicine is devoted to individuals with parkinsonism. Tools include counseling, education, metabolic evaluation, pharmaceutical & nutraceutical prescribing.
Michael Rezak, MD, PhD, Director of the Movement Disorders Program at Health Quest, received his medical degree from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, having already earned a master’s in psychology and a doctorate in brain anatomy from the University of Illinois Medical Center. He then completed a fellowship in visual system neurophysiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center.
A physician, researcher and teacher, Dr. Rezak was a Distinguished Physician Endowed Chair of the Parkinson’s Disease Research Society, Northwestern Medicine West Region, before joining Health Quest. He served for many years as Section Chief of Neurosciences at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. He has also held assistant professorships in neurology at Northwestern University and Yale University.
Dr. Rezak’s broad research interests include medical and surgical treatments for Parkinson’s disease, symptom management and quality of life for Parkinson’s patients, deep brain stimulation applications and techniques, and bioethics.
Dr. Ronald F. Pfeiffer was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Nebraska and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska and medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He completed neurological training at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Following military service in Germany, he served on the Neurology faculty at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and now at the Oregon Health and Science University.
His research focus has been on Parkinson’s disease, primarily in 3 particular areas: clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease, the genetic aspects of Parkinson’s disease, and gastrointestinal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. He has participated in over 70 clinical trials, and is a long-standing member of the Parkinson Study Group. He was Chair of the Movement Disorders Section of the American Academy of Neurology from 2012 – 2014, Chair of the Continuing Medical Education Committee of the Movement Disorder Society from 2004-2010, and Chair of the Other Nonmotor Subgroup of the NINDS Parkinson’s Disease Common Data Elements Working Group from 2009-2018.
He has authored or co-authored over 300 journal articles or book chapters and co-edited 7 books or monographs. He served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Parkinsonism and Related Disorders from 2008-2017. Dr. Pfeiffer received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Concordia University-Nebraska in 2001.
A Columbia University alumna, Lizzie Lasater translates her training in Art History and Architecture into carefully curated digital trainings, global Restorative yoga teacher training workshops, and her heartfelt spirit jewelry collection at lizzielasater.com. She sometimes jokes that yoga “runs in the family” because her Mom, Judith Hanson Lasater, co-founded Yoga Journal Magazine and has been teaching since 1971. Raised in San Francisco, Lizzie lives in the Alps with her Austrian husband and twin baby boys. She posts daily on social media about the pleasure of deceleration.
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