PD Care Connection's First Event

Happening on 3/28/2024

Please join us for the first event for PD Care Connection! This event will be taking place from March 28th to March 29th at SkySong, ASU's Scottsdale Innovation Center.

Pre-Conference Education Opportunity

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - Pre-Conference Continuing Education
Functional Transformation for People with Parkinson’s (PWP’s), using the three- dimensional movement analysis and performance system (3-D Maps). Instruction is done by movement specialist, John Perry PT, FAFS, who is a trained Fellow of Applied Functional Science, through the Gray Institute. Special guest, David Tiberio PT, Ph.D will also contribute. Continuing education certification in 3-D Maps is available for professionals. This course is open to anyone that is interested. There is a fee for this course. To register, click here or use the button below. Discounted rates for students and non-professionals. Healthcare Professional - $395 Students and non-professional - $275 (contact us for the discount coupon code) Click here to Register!

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - Pre-Conference Continuing Education

Functional Transformation for People with Parkinson’s (PWP’s), using the three- dimensional movement analysis and performance system (3-D Maps). Instruction is done by movement specialist, John Perry PT, FAFS, who is a trained Fellow of Applied Functional Science, through the Gray Institute. Special guest, David Tiberio PT, Ph.D will also contribute. Continuing education certification in 3-D Maps is available for professionals. This course is open to anyone that is interested. There is a fee for this course. To register, click here or use the button below. Discounted rates for students and non-professionals.

Healthcare Professional - $395

Students and non-professional - $275 (contact us for the discount coupon code)

Click here to Register!

FREE Conference Agenda

(times subject to change*)

Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 8:00AM to 6PM
Debbie Polisky, MS, MBA - 8:45AM to 9:30AM "Nutrition in the kitchen for PD" Brain Nutritionist, Wellness Consultant Dr. Tory McJunkin - 9:45AM to 10:15AM "Regaining Control: Innovative Approaches to Bladder Health in Parkinson's" Neuromodulation Specialist, Physician Edie Simpson - 10:45AM to 11:30AM "Keeping it Safe" Hospitalization and Parkinson's disease Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse, Researcher Dr. Francisco Ponce, MD - 12PM to 1PM "Surgical Options for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease" Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute Dr. Jeffrey Kordower, Ph.D - Keynote speaker - 1:30PM to 2:30PM "How the PD Brain Degenerates, and What we are Trying, to Fix it" Founding Director of ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center The Outcasters Improv Comedy Troupe - 4:30PM to 6:00PM Social Time

Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 8:00AM to 6PM

Debbie Polisky, MS, MBA - 8:45AM to 9:30AM

"Nutrition in the kitchen for PD"

Brain Nutritionist, Wellness Consultant

Dr. Tory McJunkin - 9:45AM to 10:15AM

"Regaining Control: Innovative Approaches to Bladder Health in Parkinson's"

Neuromodulation Specialist, Physician

Edie Simpson - 10:45AM to 11:30AM

"Keeping it Safe" Hospitalization and Parkinson's disease

Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse, Researcher

Dr. Francisco Ponce, MD - 12PM to 1PM

"Surgical Options for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease"

Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute

Dr. Jeffrey Kordower, Ph.D - Keynote speaker - 1:30PM to 2:30PM

"How the PD Brain Degenerates, and What we are Trying, to Fix it"

Founding Director of ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center

The Outcasters Improv Comedy Troupe - 4:30PM to 6:00PM

Social Time

Friday, March 29, 2024 - 8:00AM to 5PM
Kay Wing, PT, DPT, NCS, Gillian Porter, PT - 8:45AM to 9:30AM "Exercise is the Best Medicine" DPT, NCS, Founder of Southwest Advanced Neurological (SWAN) Rehabilitation Dr. David Shprecher - 10AM to 10:45AM "Making Strides Against Parkinson's Disease through Clinical Trials" Movement Disorders Director for Banner Research and Clinical Associate Professor for University of Arizona - Phoenix David Tiberio, PT, Ph.D, Dave Koch - 12:30PM to 1:30PM "Application of Functional Strategies to the Challenges of PD" Gray Institute Academic Dean Social Time - 4PM to 5PM

Friday, March 29, 2024 - 8:00AM to 5PM

Kay Wing, PT, DPT, NCS, Gillian Porter, PT - 8:45AM to 9:30AM

"Exercise is the Best Medicine"

DPT, NCS, Founder of Southwest Advanced Neurological (SWAN) Rehabilitation

Dr. David Shprecher - 10AM to 10:45AM

"Making Strides Against Parkinson's Disease through Clinical Trials"

Movement Disorders Director for Banner Research and Clinical Associate Professor for University of Arizona - Phoenix

David Tiberio, PT, Ph.D, Dave Koch - 12:30PM to 1:30PM

"Application of Functional Strategies to the Challenges of PD"

Gray Institute Academic Dean

Social Time - 4PM to 5PM

Additional Presentations (Times TBA)
Rock Steady Boxing of Gilbert: Boxing for Parkinson’s - Friday Tremble Clefts: Music/Singing for Parkinson’s Disease - Friday DMA Tia Chi Fitness and Wellness Center: Tia Chi for Parkinson’s - Thursday and Friday New Mexico - Arizona Pickleball Association: Pickleball for Parkinson’s - Thursday and Friday Dance for PD: Thursday - Debbie Braganza, Friday - Alison Marshall

Additional Presentations (Times TBA)

Rock Steady Boxing of Gilbert: Boxing for Parkinson’s - Friday

Tremble Clefts: Music/Singing for Parkinson’s Disease - Friday

DMA Tia Chi Fitness and Wellness Center: Tia Chi for Parkinson’s - Thursday and Friday

New Mexico - Arizona Pickleball Association: Pickleball for Parkinson’s - Thursday and Friday

Dance for PD: Thursday - Debbie Braganza, Friday - Alison Marshall

Booths/Vendors

Keynote Speaker:

Jeffrey H. Kordower, Ph.D.

Founding Director of ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (NDRC)

Kordower is the Charlene and J. Orin Distinguished Director at the Biodesign Institute, and professor of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU. He has over thirty years of research experience and is internationally recognized as a leader in the area of Parkinson’s Disease. He has special expertise in the mechanisms underlying the neurodegeneration characteristic of Parkinson’s disease and is pioneering new avenues to develop therapies which will slow, if not arrest, disease progression, to eventually fulfill the hope for a cure in the future.