Young Investigator Awards
1st place:
Junyu Lin
West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
“Studies on the Genetics of Dystonia and Other Movement Disorders”
2nd place:
Stiven Roytman
University of Michigan, United States, Ann Arbor, United States
“Postural control subtypes in Parkinson’s Disease and older adults”
3rd place:
Viviana Torres Ballesteros
Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Unit of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain
“Image-guided programming in patients with Parkinson’s disease with suboptimal response to deep brain stimulation.”
Best Walking Poster Tour Presentation Awards
Henry Mauricio Chaparro-Solano (Cleveland, United States) – P_71 (GPT): Current perspectives on the pharmacogenomics of the side effects of Parkinson’s disease treatment: a systematic review
Todd Levine (Scottsdale, United States) – P_40 (GPT): The Synuclein-One Study: Skin biopsy detection of phoshorylated alpha-synuclein for diagnosis of the synucleinopathies
Janvi Ramchandra (Cleveland, United States) – P_105 (GPT): Sex differences in the age at onset of Parkinson disease in Latin American populations
Jinyoung Youn (Seoul, South Korea) – P_214 (GPT): Another common genetic ataxia in South Korea: Spinocerebellar ataxia 36
Benjamin Walter (Cleveland, United States) – P_165 (GPT): Establishing a framework for quality of inpatient care for Parkinson’s disease: A study on inpatient medication administration
Shawn Sedgh (Loma Linda, United States) – P_204 (GPT): Persistent chorea gravidarum with an autoimmune etiology: a follow up four years later
Best Oral Poster Awards
Jaroslaw Dulski (Jacksonville, United States) – O_2: Perry syndrome (parkinsonism, neuropsychiatric symptoms, weight loss, hypoventilation): large new pedigree and first study on prodromal stage of the disease
Chad Heatwole (Rochester, United States) – O_5: The Huntington Disease Health Index (HD-HI): Measuring changes in disease burden in response to valbenazine during the KINECT-HD-Trial
Jamison Seabury (Rochester, United States) – O_13: The Parkinson’s Disease-Health Index (PD-HI): development and validation of a novel, disease specific, patient reported outcome measure
David Charles (Nashville, United States) – O_20: Connectivity profile for deep brain stimulation in early stage Parkinson disease
