PD Care Connection Experience 2026

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Join us for the PD Care Connection 2026, on March 26th and 27th in sunny Arizona!

We're thrilled to offer two full days dedicated to learning about Parkinson's Disease, exploring a variety of treatment and care options, and discovering activities that can enhance daily life with PD. Come hear leading experts discuss research, treatment, and practical strategies to improve well-bring. We look forward to an engaging and informative experience together!

Pre-conference Education Opportunity

Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 | 7:30am - 5pm

Become certified in 3DMAPS by the Gray Institute, live a PD Care Connection. 3DMAPS (3D Movement Analysis & Performance System) is the most innovative way to effectively analyze and enhance the entire body in an efficient, revealing, and evidence-based manner. This certification equips you, the movement professional, with the content, competence, and confidence to meet the needs, wants, and goals of all of your patients and clients. Unlike any other movement screen, 3DMAPS is a movement analysis and performance system that applies to the three-dimensionality and abilities of all individuals and all of human function. 3DMAPS boils down all of human movement into 6 Vital Transformational Zones, adapts these movements within Mobility Analysis Movements (assessing range of motion) and Stability Analysis Movements (assessing control of motion), and empowers you to then prioritize the best and most logical progressions in serving your patients and clients better.

This course is open to anyone that is interested. There is a fee for this course. Click here to register, or scan the QR code below:

We hope to see you all there for another wonderful event! If you plan on coming, please consider signing up for our emailing list on this website to be informed when more details are available

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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.

Sun Joo Lee, PhD, MT-BC

Assistant Professor, Music Therapy - University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory

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Dr. Francisco A. Ponce, MD

Chief Neurosurgeon, Functional/Cranial Neurosurgery

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Laura Langer, M.S., CCC-SLP

Chief Clinical & Research Officer - Parkinson Voice Project

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Dr. Daniel Corcos, PhD

Professor of Physical Therapy & Human Movement Sciences

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Dr. Sara Dhanani, MD

Movement Disorders Neurologist

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Dr. Maria Ospina

Movement Disorders Neurologist

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Dr. Virgilio Gerald H. Evidente, M.D.

Director, Movement Disorders Center of Arizona, LLC

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Dr. Shannon Chiu

Senior Associate Consultant and Assistant Professor of Neurology

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Dr. Padma Mahant, MD

Board Certified Neurologist specializing in Movement Disorders

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Dr. Tory McJunkin

Neuromodulation Specialist, Physician

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Dr. Ray Dorsey, MD

Director of the Atria Health and Research Institute's Center for the Brain & the Environment

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Dr. Michael Sumko, DO

Orthopedic Surgeon

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John Perry, PT, FAFS

Physical Therapist, Educator, Author

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Dave Koch, PT

Physical Therapist, PDCC Founder

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Nikkel Nielsen

ACE Certified Personal Trainer & Senior Fitness Specialist

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Marty Barrett

12th Round Fit Boxing, Coach & Owner

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Debbie Braganza

Dance Instructor, Dance for Parkinson's Disease

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Dr. Saulena Shafer, DO

Neurologist, movement disorders

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New This Year! Skills assessments, speech evals, and StretchLab

Take advantage of professional skills assessments to get a better picture of your physical state.

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Physical Skills Assessment

Sign up for a time to get tested! Tests will be done all three days to measure your strength, endurance, balance, mobility, stability, and fall risk. This will take place in the 1475 N. Scottsdale Rd. location (across the street) on the second floor.

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StretchLab

Sign up for a time with the StretchLab team! Don't just stretch - get stretched. StretchLab's team of highly trained Flexologists® will give you a deeper stretch than you could ever achieve on your own.

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ASU Speech Therapy Screener

Sign up to take part in a screener by licensed Speech Language Pathologists. Have them assess your skills in speech, language, voice, cognition, hearing, and swallowing to better understand where you are.

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