Reasons to Attend

Empowering Scientists and Clinicians:
Accelerating Discovery and Clinical Care Innovation

• Practical workshops in parkinsonism and related disorders
• Both general educational and specialty tracks
• Relevant, updated sessions
• Smaller, interactive meeting

Focused Workshops

PRD Essentials – A Practical Approach to Diagnosing and Treating Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders: Gain confidence diagnosing and treating hypo- and hyperkinetic disorders! This clinically relevant session is great for general neurologists, movement disorder trainees, general practitioners, allied health professionals, or movement disorder specialists who want an update.

Deep Brain Stimulation Skills: This practical, in-depth workshop covers DBS patient selection, brain area targeting, programming, patient assessment, and hands-on device rotations. This limited-enrollment workshop is essential for anyone seeking to delve into DBS.

Botulinum Toxin Injection Workshop: Familiarize yourself with the fine points of botulinum toxin injections, featuring muscle localization techniques and video injection demonstrations from world experts.

Diagnostic Testing for Parkinson’s Disease and Parkinsonism: New diagnostic modalities have a lot to offer! This how-to workshop describes the use of alpha synuclein skin testing, CSF biomarkers, imaging biomarkers, and neurophysiology to enhance the confidence of your diagnosis.

Latest Developments

It Takes A Village: Comprehensive Approach to Caring for Parkinson’ Disease: Your patients will benefit from a multidisciplinary approach to Parkinson’s disease that addresses the many bodily systems involved and the progression of symptoms and signs. This session gives the essentials.

Driving Scientific Discovery With Bioinformatics, AI and Innovation: Learn how Bioinformatics and artificial intelligence are used in diagnosis, prognosis, clinical decision support, and personalized medicine. The question is not IF these technologies will affect your practice but how and when.

Novel and Translational Therapeutics for Parkinson’s and Related Disorders: New treatments are coming—cells, immune-based therapies, and repurposed agents—get the latest updates in this session.

Connect and Network with Colleagues

Women in PRD: Attend this special networking dinner event, celebrating women in Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders.

Next Generation Networking Reception: Clinicians early in their careers in Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders connect with their peers in a relaxed atmosphere after the scientific sessions on Thursday.

The Grand Parade of Movement Disorders Video Session

In this popular session, two teams of movement disorder experts will attempt to diagnose mystery case studies presented by delegates from around the world. Everyone wins as the teams discuss disease features that inform their hypotheses and differential diagnoses.