Just back from WPC2016, my first conference since diagnosis 6 months ago.

I found the conference very useful, particularly the poster sessions where researchers present their latest work. There is interesting work going on in many areas: vaccines, stem cells, regrowing neurons along pathways of currently-dead neurons, and so on.

It was also interesting to speak to so many people with PD, and to observe how they cope with the disease at its various stages.

The most frustrating thing was not being able to get into the roundtable talks I wanted to attend. There were many similarly frustrated people on the waiting lists. Those roundtables need to either be repeated or somehow opened up to larger numbers.

All in all, a great event. I will attend at least one more, and will be much more careful about early sign up to roundtables.

Dan