Scientific Program

Wednesday, 7 May 2025

18:00-19:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Welcome Reception and Networking
Exhibit and Poster Hall Open

Thursday, 8 May 2025

08:00-09:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
Congress Welcome and Invited Award Lectures
• Welcome and announcements from IAPRD President, Alberto Albanese
• Announcement of Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award 2025 winner
• IAPRD Melvin Yahr Lecture: Breaking Barriers: Using Technology to Increase Access to Parkinson’s Research
Caroline Tanner (San Francisco, USA)
• IAPRD Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture: Human Mid Brain Organoids in Parkinson’s disease: advances and limitations
Eng-King Tan (Singapore)
• Welcome from Congress leaders

09:00-10:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
General Session 1: Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s and Related Disorders
Chair: Serge Przedborski (New York, USA)
Chair: Ryan Uitti (Jacksonville, USA)

Northside Ballroom
Workshop 1: PRD Essentials – A Practical Approach to Diagnosing and Treating Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders

Part I: Hypokinetic Disorders
Chair: Susan Bressman (New York, USA)
Chair: Vicki Shanker (New York, USA)

09:00-09:30

1a: Synuclein-based biomarkers: what they do and do not tell us
Andrew Siderowf (Philadelphia, USA)

1a: Diagnosis and diagnostic testing in Parkinson’s disease
Vicki Shanker (New York, USA)

09:30-10:00

1b: Are we forgetting tau as a biomarker?
Giorgia Melli (Lugano, Switzerland)

1b: PD treatment spectrum—from de novo to advanced
Matt Swan (New York, USA)

10:00-10:30

1c: Making sense of biomarkers and co-pathology
Glenda Halliday (Sydney, Australia)

1c: Diagnostic and treatment pearls in atypical parkinsonism
Stephen Reich (Baltimore, USA)

10:30-11:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Coffee Break (Exhibit and Poster Hall Open)

11:00-12:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-C
Parallel Session 1: From Genetics to Targeted Therapy
Chair: Andreas Puschmann (Lund, Sweden)
Chair: Luca Marsili (Cincinnati, USA)

Grand Ballroom – Salon D
Parallel Session 2: Botulinum Neurotoxin Opportunities and Techniques
Chair: Mark Lew (Los Angeles, USA)
Chair: Steven Frucht (New York, USA)

Northside Ballroom
Workshop 1: continued

Part II: Hyperkinetic Disorders
Chair: Alessandro Di Rocco (New York, USA)
Chair: Joohi Jimenez-Shahed (New York, USA)

11:00-11:30

1a: Genetic testing and targeted therapies in Parkinsonism
Roy Alcalay (New York, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel)

2a: Choosing specific botulinum toxins for selected indications
Barbara Karp (Bethesda, USA)

1d: Common pediatric movement disorders and the continuum to adulthood
Emmanuel Roze (Paris, France)

11:30-12:00

1b: Genetic testing for ataxia
Mario Cornejo Olivas (Lima, Peru)

2b: Botulinum toxin use in Parkinson’s disease
Anna Castagna (Milan, Italy)

1e: Dystonia classification, genetics, and treatment implications
Rachel Saunders-Pullman (New York, USA)

12:00-12:30

1c: Testing and care for Friedreich ataxia
Sylvia Boesch (Innsbruck, Austria)

2c: Botulinum neurotoxin use in task-specific dystonia
Steven Frucht (New York, USA)

1f: Phenomenology and treatment of hyperkinetic disorders
Andres Deik (Philadelphia, USA)

12:30-14:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Lunch Break (Exhibit and Poster Hall Open)

14:30-16:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-C
Parallel Session 3: It Takes a Village: Comprehensive Approach to Caring for Parkinson’s
Chair: Ryan Uitti (Jacksonville, USA)
Chair: Maja Trošt (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Grand Ballroom – Salon D
Parallel Session 4: Paroxysmal and Episodic Movement Disorders
Chair: Daniel Truong (Fountain Valley, USA)
Chair: Pramod Pal (Bangalore, India)

Northside Ballroom
Workshop 2: Deep Brain Stimulation Skills

14:30-15:00

3a: Multidisciplinary team care
Anhar Hassan (Dublin, Ireland)

4a: Neurophysiological and genetic evaluation
Roberto Erro (Salerno, Italy)

14:30-15:30	Part 1: Case-based selection and targeting Chair: Sol de Jesus (Hershey, USA)
14:30-14:55	2a: DBS in Parkinson’s disease / essential tremor Okeanis Vaou (San Antonio, USA)
14:55-15:20	2b: DBS in dystonia and other conditions Svjetlana Miocinovic (Atlanta, USA)
15:20-15:30	Questions / panel
15:30-16:55	Part 2: Case-based programming Chair: Michael Pourfar (New York, USA)
15:30-15:55	2c: Programming principles, patient assessment and remote programming Leo Verhagen (Chicago, USA)
15:55-16:20	2d: Neurophysiology guided DBS programming Fiorella Contarino (Leiden, Netherlands)
16:20-16:45	2e: Image-guided DBS programming Jens Volkmann (Würzburg, Germany)
16:45-16:55	Questions / panel
17:00-18:30	Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope Device Rotations: Hands-on session Monica Volz (San Francisco, USA) Drew Kern (Aurora, USA) Michael Pourfar (New York, USA) Mitesh Lotia (Orlando, USA) Britt Stone (Nashville, USA) Sarah O’Shea (New York, USA)

15:00-15:30

3b: Rehabilitation
Theresa Ellis (Boston, USA)

4b: Autoimmune underpinnings
Bettina Balint (Zurich, Switzerland)

15:30-16:00

3c: Palliative care and improving quality of life
Anette Schrag (London, UK)

4c: Treatment options
Hyder Jinnah (Atlanta, USA)

16:00-17:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Coffee Break (Exhibit and Poster Hall Open)

16:00-17:00

Salons GHI and GHI Foyer
Guided Poster Tours

17:00-18:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
General Session 2: Driving Scientific Discovery With Bioinformatics, AI and Innovation
Chair: Andreas Puschmann (Lund, Sweden)
Chair: Ryan Uitti (Jacksonville, USA)

17:00-17:30

2a: Big data and the bioinformatics revolution in diagnostics and beyond
Michael Zech (Munich, Germany)

17:30-18:00

2b: Artificial intelligence and clinical discovery: predictive AI, modeling, clinical decision support and personalized medicine
Maria Chiara Malaguti (Trento, Italy)

18:00-18:30

2c: PD metabolomics as an illustration of the need for and potential of AI
Michael Schwarzschild (Boston, USA)

18:45-22:00

Faculty & Fellows Dinner

Friday, 9 May 2025

08:00-09:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Exhibit and Poster Hall Open

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
IAPRD General Business Meeting

08:00-09:00

Salons GHI and GHI Foyer
Guided Poster Tours

09:00-10:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
General Session 3: Novel and Translational Therapeutics for Parkinson’s and Related Disorders
Chair: Shinsuke Fujioka (Fukuoka, Japan)
Chair: Elena Moro (Grenoble, France)

09:00-09:30

3a: Novel cell therapies
Ryosuke Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan)

09:30-10:00

3b: Therapeutic strategies based on inflammation/immunotherapy
Malú Gámez Tansey (Gainsville, USA)

10:00-10:30

3c: Antidiabetic and other potential neurorestorative agents
Jingchuan Guo (Gainesville, USA)

10:30-11:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Northside Ballroom
Parallel Session 5: Update on Neuromodulation for Hypo- and Hyperkinetic Disorders
Chair: Alfonso Fasano (Toronto, Canada)
Chair: Elena Moro (Grenoble, France)

Grand Ballroom – Salon D
Parallel Session 6: Defining and Treating Atypical Parkinsonism
Chair: Emilia Gatto (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chair: Ai-Huey Tan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-C
Workshop 3: Botulinum Toxin Injection Workshop
Chair: Alberto Albanese (MIlan, Italy)
Chair: David Simpson (New York, USA)

11:00-11:30

5a: MR- guided focused ultrasound
Gordon Baltuch (New York, USA)

6a: Differentiating PSP, MSA, and corticobasal syndrome
Ai-Huey Tan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

3a: Clinical utility of botulinum neurotoxins
Alberto Albanese (Milan, Italy)

3b: Techniques for muscle localization
Katharine Alter (Bethesda, USA)

3c: Injection demonstration video cases
Jaroslaw Slawek (Gdansk, Poland)
David Simpson (New York, USA)

11:30-12:00

5b: Deep brain stimulation
Alexandra Boogers (Leuven, Belgium)

6b: Therapeutic approaches
Huw Morris (London, UK)

12:00-12:30

5c: Neuromodulatory neurostimulation (TMS, tDCS, TAS, TUS, TI)
Robert Chen (Toronto, Canada)

6c: Debate: Is neuropathology the gold standard for diagnosis?
No: Paola Sandroni (Rochester, USA)
Yes: Glenda Halliday (Sydney, Australia)

12:30-14:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Lunch Break (Exhibit and Poster Hall Open)

14:30-16:00

Northside Ballroom
Parallel Session 7: Management of Advanced Parkinson’s
Chair: Zoltan Mari (Las Vegas, USA)
Chair: Jinyoung Youn (Seoul, Korea)

Grand Ballroom – Salon D
Parallel Session 8: Management of the Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders
Chair: Karen Frei (Loma Linda, USA)
Chair: Anhar Hassan (Dublin, Ireland)

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
Workshop 4: Diagnostic Testing for Parkinson’s Disease and Parkinsonism
Chair: Marie Saint-Hilaire (Boston, USA)
Chair: Roy Alcalay (New York, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel)

14:30-15:00

7a: Defining advanced PD and treatment needs
Indu Subramanian (Los Angeles, USA)

8a: Tardive syndromes
Roongroj Bhidayasiri (Bangkok, Thailand)

4a: Utility and interpretation of skin biopsy testing for alpha-synuclein
Pravin Khemani (Seattle, USA)

4b: Differential diagnosis with CSF diagnosis markers
David Coughlin (San Diego, USA)

4c: Current and emerging imaging markers and techniques
Marina Picillo (Salerno, Italy)

4d: Neurophysiology
John Caviness (Phoenix, USA)

15:00-15:30

7b: Cognitive and psychiatric issues
Daniel Weintraub (Philadelphia, USA)

8b: Huntington disease
Sarah Tabrizi (London, UK)

15:30-16:00

7c: Motor fluctuations
Rajesh Pahwa (Kansas City, USA)

8c: Myoclonus and Tics
Christos Ganos (Toronto, Canada)

16:00-17:00

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Coffee Break (Exhibit and Poster Hall Open)

16:00-17:00

Salons GHI and GHI Foyer
Guided Poster Tours

17:00-18:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
General Session 4: Innovative Advances in Neuromodulation
Chair: Joohi Jimenez-Shahed (New York, USA)
Chair: Helen Bronte-Stewart (Stanford, USA)

17:00-17:30

4a: Closing the loop in DBS
Helen Bronte-Stewart (Stanford, USA)

17:30-18:00

4b: Connecting the dots: connectomic DBS
Andreas Horn (Boston, USA)

18:00-18:30

4c: Are we ready for automated DBS programming?
Svjetlana Miocinovic (Atlanta, USA)

Saturday, 10 May 2025

07:45-08:15

Grand Ballroom – Salons E-I
Morning Coffee

08:00-09:00

Salons GHI and GHI Foyer
Guided Poster Tours

09:15-11:15

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
General Session 5: The Grand Video Challenge of Movement Disorders Session
Moderator/Master of Ceremonies: Hubert Fernandez (Cleveland, USA)
Discussant: Michael Zech (Munich, Germany)
Discussant: Ruth Walker (New York, USA)
Discussant: Pramod Pal (Bangalore, India)
Discussant: Bettina Balint (Zurich, Switzerland)
Discussant: Ai-Huey Tan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Discussant: Abhimanyu Mahajan (Cincinnati, USA)

11:15-11:45

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
Best Papers in Parkinsonism and Related Disorders and Clinical Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
PRD: 11:15-11:30
CPRD: 11:30-11:45
Chair: Daniel Truong (Fountain Valley, USA)
Chair: Hubert Fernandez (Cleveland, USA)
Speaker: Marie Saint-Hilaire (Boston, USA)
Speaker: Yaroslau Compta (Barcelona, Spain)

11:45-12:30

Grand Ballroom – Salons A-D
IAPRD 2025 Congress Awards and Closing Ceremony

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