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September 20 – 23 2016 FINAL PROGRAM Bringing the Parkinson’s Community Together! Welcome Letters ................................................... 1-3 Committee Members ................................................ 4 General Information ............................................... 5-8 Wellness Way ...................................................11-14 WPC Theater .........................................................15 WPC Art Walk ........................................................17 TABLE OF WPC Awards .........................................................18 CONTENTS Social Program and Special Events ............................... 20 Travel Grants and Travel Grants Supporters ............22-23 Continuing Education ............................................... 24 Program-at-a-Glance .......................................... 26-27 Congress Program .............................................29-56 Posters and Poster Tours .................................... 57-95 Exhibition ........................................................ 96-115 PD Glossary .................................................. 118-126 Faculty List ......................................................... 127 Oregon Convention Center ....................................... 128 Portland Map .......................................................129 Organizational Partners ......................................... 130 Acknowledgements ...............................................131 The purpose of the World Parkinson Congresses is to create a worldwide dialogue to discuss the multifaceted problems of Parkinson’s disease (PD), propose solutions including new approaches to research, build innovative collaborations and create better treatment options for people with PD. It is the only meeting in the field of PD that addresses a need to bring the whole PD community together for high-level scientific sessions and WPdiscussions on currentC work being done to advance science, improve care for people with PD and help sensitize researchers to the needs of people with PD and conversely help 2016 people living with PD understand the challenges researchers and health professionals face in their effort to find a cure and offer better care. WORLD World Parkinson Coalition Inc. PARKINSON 1359 Broadway, Suite 1509, New York, NY 10018 USA CONGRESS Tel: +1 800 457-6676 [email protected] www.worldpdcoalition.org World Parkinson Coalition® is the nonprofit organization that is responsible for designing and running the triennial Congresses. WPC Inc hires the secretariat, runs the website, connects with organizational partners, is fully responsible for the meeting design including the program content, selection of faculty, renewal room, video competition and all social activities held during the Congresses. STAFF Elizabeth Pollard, Executive Director Christiana Thurton, Outreach Coordinator Kathleen Jordan, Intern Dear friends: On behalf of the WPC 2016 Steering Committee and the Board of Directors of the World Parkinson Coalition®, we welcome you to the Fourth World Parkinson Congress and to Portland, Oregon. WPC 2016 will unite the global Parkinson community for a high-level, inspirational Congress with one pre-congress day and three days of plenary sessions, workshops, roundtables, technology talks, and discussions on the most recent and cutting edge scientific and clinical research as well as advances in care and quality of life for people living with Parkinson disease (PD). We will welcome registrants from 60 countries including people living with PD, care partners, neuroscientists, clinicians, nurses, rehabilitation specialists, policy makers and others. Our 193 Organizational Partners from 46 countries have graciously endorsed the Congress and, by so doing have helped to ensure the success of the WPC 2016 and the diversity of our delegates. Be sure to visit the exhibit area to view the 600 plus scientific and living-with-Parkinson’s posters and sign up for the evening poster tours right in the poster area. We encourage you also to visit our exhibitors, from around the world, representing both industry and non-profit organizations. While there, plan to stop by the WPC Theater, where you can hear talks on technology and how it is impacting the lives of people living with PD, or meet some of the amazing authors who were selected to be part of our new “Meet & Greet” sessions. While in the exhibit hall, make sure you stop by the Book Nook to check out the nearly 60 books that we’ll have on display and take an order form so you can remember which book you want to order when you return home! When in the exhibit hall, be sure to also visit our Clinical Research Village, where science will meet advocacy and where experts, both researchers and clinical trial participants, will be available to talk about clinical trials, why we need them, how you can help and what you need to know before signing up. If you need a break from the science, visit the Wellness Way where you can find the Renewal Room to sign up for a session on yoga, dance, boxing, or singing. Or perhaps you might like to sign up for a massage or Reiki treatment, or try out meditation over lunch one day. For our care partners, we invite you to visit the new Care Partner Lounge to connect, learn, and relax throughout the Congress. When walking the halls, be sure to check out our first ever Art Walk, showcasing three art exhibits produced by people with Parkinson disease, highlighting the power of creativity as part of a wellness plan and the talented community in which we live. And don’t forget to stop by the Parky statue for a picture to take home! The World Parkinson Congresses are the only global conferences that bring together the entire Parkinson community, including the dedicated researchers and health professionals who study the disease and care for those who live with it, alongside the people and care partners who live with PD day in and day out – the real experts. This is the fourth time the WPC has convened. We will continue to strive to build a stronger, more cohesive PD community with a better understanding of PD and the treatment options currently available, always looking forward to newer advances and moving closer to a cure. We are pleased you have decided to join us for this unique learning opportunity. This is a meeting of hope. The hope for a cure, and until that time comes, the hope for a better quality of life for those touched by Parkinson disease. This is also a meeting of inspiration. A meeting where researchers and clinicians meet people with PD who inspire them to continue their work and to never give up. It’s also a place where people with PD and families meet others in the community who inspire them to power through their disease knowing they are part of a global Parkinson family that is working toward a common goal – to end PD once and for all. We look forward to meeting many of you during the Congress. Sincerely, Serge Przedborski A. Jon Stoessl M.D., Ph.D. C.M., M.D., FRCPC WPC 2016 Co-Chair WPC 2016 Co-Chair Dear friends: On behalf of the Program Committee, we thank you for your participation in the Fourth World Parkinson Congress this week in Portland, Oregon. The program you now hold in your hands was conceived by the members of the Program Committee who worked over the last three years to identify some of the most important and exciting topics being discussed and researched today and then invited experts from the global community to share their knowledge and experience. Our goal was to create a vibrant and comprehensive program that would appeal to our diverse audience. We not only wanted you to feel inspired by the research, and hopeful for where it will lead us, but also for you to learn things about Parkinson disease that you could start using as soon as you returned home, whether in your homes, your clinics or your laboratories. Sessions were created for people with Parkinson and care partners, neuroscientists, clinicians, whether general practitioners, neurologists, or movement disorder specialists, nurses, rehabilitation specialists and others involved in all aspects of Parkinson disease. Some sessions are designed for a specialized audience but many are meant to offer information of interest to a large cross-section of participants. The focus and level of technicity of each session is clearly indicated in the program, so you know what to expect in designing your own plan for each day of the meeting. The pre-congress day on Tuesday offers three daylong courses followed by the opening ceremony and welcome reception. We then launch into the core program on Wednesday with Hot Topics presentations that start at 8 AM highlighting some of the outstanding poster abstracts we received this year followed by the daily morning plenaries which have been structured for maximum interest across the diverse delegate body. Following these plenaries, each day over lunch we have a unique special lecture, with the first to be delivered on Wednesday, September 21 by Dr. John Nutt as our James Parkinson Lecturer looking at the history of levodopa. The Thursday special lecture will take a look at living well with PD with stories and talks by people with Parkinson who are inspiring their communities, and the third special session on Friday will be chaired by Dave Iverson as he discusses with panelists the challenges between focusing on a cure versus care and how these decisions are made and who makes them. Over lunch each day in the exhibit hall, we also have series