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2008-2009 Educational Symposia and PDWebcasts: Spokane, WA

Surgical Advances in Parkinson's Disease

Hosted by PDF and the Northwest Parkinson's Foundation
Saturday, October 11, 2008
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
http://www.pdf.org/webcast/spokane.cfm

The third installment of Parkinson’s Science: Innovations and New Perspectives will take place on Saturday, October 11, 2008 in Spokane, WA in collaboration with the Northwest Parkinson's Foundation. The event presentations will cover the current surgical options available and options that may be available in the future to treat Parkinson’s, including but not limited to deep brain stimulation (DBS) and gene therapy.
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Program

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9:00AM - 9:55AM

Registration

9:55 AM – 10:00 AM Opening Remarks
Craig Howard, Co-Founder and Chair of the Board, Northwest Parkinson's Foundation

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Deep Brain Stimulation and Parkinson’s Disease
Jaimie Henderson, M.D.

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Break

11:15 AM – 12:30 PM Living with DBS: Preparation, Management and Follow-up
What You Need to Know Before Surgery - Monique Giroux, M.D.
What You Need to Know After Surgery - Sierra Farris, M.P.A.S., PA-C
12:30 PM – 1:25 PM LUNCH

1:25 PM – 2:25 PM

Future Surgical Techniques: Gene Therapy and Other Dreams
Jeffrey Kordower, Ph.D.*
2:25 PM – 2:55 PM Q & A Panel
2:55 PM – 3:00 PM Closing Remarks
Robin Elliott, Executive Director, Parkinson's Disease Foundation

*Presenting via video

Location

Doubletree Hotel Spokane
322 N. Spokane Falls Court
Spokane, WA 99201
Phone: (509) 455-9600
Fax: (509) 455-6285


Speaker Biographies

Sierra Farris, M.P.A.S., PA-C
Ms. Farris has been a certified Physician Assistant for 10 years with a concentration in Parkinson's disease and deep brain stimulation for the past eight years. Sierra is the Neurostimulation Program Coordinator and DBS programming troubleshooting specialist working closely with the neurologists and rehabilitation team at the Booth Gardner Parkinson's Care Center at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington. Sierra is also a senior fellow/instructor at the University of Washington Department of Neurosurgery. Sierra has programmed more than 425 patients totaling over 700 leads assessed and programmed during her career including patients with Parkinson's disease, Tremor, Dystonia, pain, Multiple Sclerosis, and Tourette's syndrome. Sierra was also the programming consultant for the Minimally Conscious State DBS trial while working at the Cleveland Clinic in conjunction with researchers at Cornell University.

Sierra completed her medical training in 1998 at State University of New York at Stony Brook earning a second Bachelor of Science degree in Physician Assistant studies followed by a Master's in Clinical Neurology from the Nebraska University Medical Center. She had also earned a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science in 1992 and Bioethics Graduate Certificate at Cleveland State University in 2006. Sierra was awarded Outstanding Physician Assistant-Physician team award in 2006 from her professional national society and Alumni of the Year award also in 2006 from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ms. Farris serves as a faculty member for Medtronic DBS training courses and educational consultant.

Monique L. Giroux, M.D.
Dr. Giroux is the medical director of the Booth Gardner Parkinson’s Care Center in Kirkland WA. Dr. Giroux is a national leader in comprehensive patient-centered care for Parkinson’s and related movement disorders. She completed her residency at Yale followed by a two year fellowship in Movement Disorders at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is board certified in Neurology. Prior experience includes the Medical Directorship of Outpatient Movement Disorders at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. While at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Giroux established the Euclid Hospital Neurorehabilitation program for Parkinson’s and served as medical director for the National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s disease.

Her focus of care and research is on the development of interdisciplinary rehabilitation, team medicine and wellness for PD. Dr. Giroux has treated more than 600 patients with DBS therapy and has developed specialized Neurorehabilitation programs for DBS patients in both the hospital and outpatient settings. She has published articles on DBS patient care and quality of care in Parkinson's disease.

Jaimie M. Henderson, M.D.
Dr.. Henderson is the director of the Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery program at Stanford Medical Center. He is an expert in the surgical treatment of movement disorders and chronic pain, and is active in research to improve stereotactic navigation and the efficacy of neuromodulatory therapies for movement disorders, pain, and other neurological diseases.

Dr. Henderson joined the Stanford Movement Disorders team in 2004, after spending three years developing innovative surgical techniques for deep brain stimulator placement at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to this, he started the movement disorders surgery program at St. Louis University in 1995, remaining on the faculty there for six years.

Dr. Henderson received his medical degree from Chicago’s Rush Medical College in 1988, completed his residency in Neurosurgery at Saint Louis University in 1995 and completed fellowship training in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery before joining the faculty at St. Louis University. He is presently Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and, By Courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Jeffrey H. Kordower, Ph.D.
Dr. Kordower is the Jean Schweppe-Armour Professor of Neurological Sciences, Director, Research Center for Brain Repair, and Section Head for Neuroscience at Rush University Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from Queens College, City University of New York in 1984 and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the same institution in 2004. He has pioneered the use of nonhuman primates in the study of degenerative diseases and has made seminal observations with regards the survival of fetal nigral transplants in patients with Parkinson’s disease, the use of ex vivo gene therapy in nonhuman primate models of Huntington’s disease, and the use of in vivo gene therapy in nonhuman primate models of Parkinson’s disease. Specific areas of Dr. Kordower’s research have been translated into clinical trials. Dr. Kordower has over 225 manuscript publications. He serves on numerous Scientific Advisory Boards including the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. He is currently, or has been formerly, a member of 17 Journal Editorial Boards including the Journal of Neuroscience and the Journal of Comparative Neurology, the latter of which he has recently been promoted to Associate Editor. He is also the Chairman for the Committee on Animal Research for the Society for Neuroscience and is a past president of the American Society for Neural Transplantation.