Portland Countdown: A Series Of Conversations On Parkinsons Disease With Dave Iverson & Jon Palfreman

SiriusXM Doctor Radio Interview with May May Ali by World Parkinson Coalition with support from the Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon

Special Guests: Dr. Serge Przedborski and Elizabeth Pollard In our final podcast we preview the upcoming 4th World Parkinson Congress by talking with Elizabeth "Eli" Pollard, Executive Director of the WPC and Dr. Serge Przedborski, WPC President and co-chair of the Portland Congress.

Special Guests: Pam Quinn and Sara Riggare In this podcast two leading Parkinson's advocates and educators offer a patient perspective on both research and clinical care. Pam Quinn is a former professional dancer who uses movement training to work with fellow Parkinson's patients around the world. Sara Riggare is an engineer and doctoral student at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm who focuses on using patient perspectives to improve overall care.

Special Guest: Dr. Jeff Bronstein It's been nearly 200 years since James Parkinson first published his landmark essay about the disease that now bears his name. Yet we still don't fully understand its cause. This podcast reviews our changing understanding of what causes Parkinson's and how that may help us find a way to stop disease progression.

Special Guest: Dr. Sam Frank That line from a poem by Theodore Roethke describes a common nemesis for Parkinson's patients: sleep. Yet disrupted sleep may also be an early warning sign of the disease. What can sleep tells us about the disease and what can we do to make sleeplessness less a burden for those living with PD?

Special Guest: Dr. Roger Barker This podcast reviews the history of fetal tissue and stem cell transplants in Parkinson's disease and what the prospects are for those therapies going forward.

Special Guest: Dr. K. Ray Chaudhuri This podcast focuses on the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's and also explores why it has taken so long for researchers to focus on these challenges. To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guest: Dr. Angela Cenci Nilsson Why has it taken so long to improve L-dopa delivery so that Parkinson's patients can experience the drug's benefit in a more continuous fashion? A conversation about the latest prospects and the challenges of getting big Pharma to buy in. To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guest: Dr. Christine Klein Will genetics helps us crack the Parkinson's code? A discussion of how inherited forms of Parkinson's are helping us better understand the underlying structure of the disease. To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guest: Lawrence I. Golbe, MD In their early stages, conditions like Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Multiple System Atrophy and Corticobasal Degeneration closely resemble Parkinson's, but they are actually distinct disease. A discussion about what research into these rare conditions is telling us about what the prospects are for those who suffer from them. To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guest: Jeffrey Kordower, PhD Another once promising disease-modifying strategy involves using growth-factors to revive weakened dopamine neurons. But recent research suggests that at diagnosis the neural damage may be so advanced that there may not be many neurons left to rescue. To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guest: Andres Lozano, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FRSC, FCAHS To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guest: Daniel Weintraub, MD To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guests: Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD, MS and Terry Ellis, PT, PhD Everyone tells patients to get plenty of exercise. Neurologists seem to be saying that the amount of exercise you get is as important as the pills you take. Why? What does the research tell us? And what exercise is best? To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

Special Guests: Patrik Brundin, MD, PhD and Kimberley Gannon, PhD Basic researchers are hard at work trying to understand the pathology of Parkinson's and discover new drug targets. One likely bad actor is a protein called alpha-synuclein. What do we know about how it kills brain cells and what might be done to stop it? To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown

In the first episode of the Portland Countdown, we chat with Dr. Andrew Lees about The history of what we know about Parkinson's disease beginning with James Parkinson's famous essay in 1817 on through the current state of Parkinson's disease research. To listen to more episodes of this podcast, visit our website: http://www.worldpdcoalition.org/?page=PortlandCountdown