I am just reading this thread. I would recommend the PAN forum - they are talking about some newer issues now and have great speakers [researchers, FDA, clinical trials, etc.] They do give scholarships but the deadline to apply is today.

If you are interested, go to http://parkinsonsaction.org and click on Forum 2008. There is a registration form to send in, or if you want to see if they will give you a scholarship to go, download scholarship application, fill out and return today. All the information you need is in the scholarship and application downloads - it can be emailed back. It's actually pretty short to fill out.

Hope to meet you there,
paula