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Parkinson’s Experts from UC, Stanford to Headline CINCINNATI, Ohio – Researchers and clinicians from The Neuroscience Institute at University Hospital and the University of Cincinnati will be joined by some of the nation’s leading Parkinson’s disease experts for the Sunflower Revolution Symposium & Expo at the Cincinnati Hilton Netherland Plaza, 8:30 am -1 pm Saturday, Oct. 14. The Symposium & Expo, a project of The Neuroscience Institute, the Mayfield Clinic, and the Denver-based Davis Phinney Foundation, is free to patients, caregivers and healthcare providers. It includes a Continuing Medical Education (CME) program for physicians. Physicians, patients and caregivers wanting reservation information for the symposium can contact Christa Meyer of Mayfield Clinic at 513.569.5251 or by email. Online registration also is available at www.SunflowerRev.org. Presenters at the event will include members of the Davis Phinney Foundation’s national Scientific Advisory Board. The presenters hold faculty positions at UC, Stanford University, the University of Austin-Texas, the University of Michigan, and the University of Colorado-Boulder. Topics will include treatments, genetics in Parkinson’s, protecting brain cells, movement therapy, wellness and fitness, deep brain stimulation, depression in Parkinson’s patients, and early-onset Parkinson’s. In June the Davis Phinney Foundation named The Neuroscience Institute and Stanford its first national Davis Phinney Research Centers. The centers, which are committed to collaborative laboratory research and the sharing of clinical data, will meet for the first time during the three-day Sunflower Revolution weekend, which also includes a gala fundraiser (Oct. 13) and bike rides of 25 and 62 miles (Oct. 15). Two of international cycling’s most popular legends,Tour de France stage winner Davis Phinney and his wife, Olympic gold medalist Connie Carpenter Phinney, will attend the gala, symposium and ride. Phinney, 47, was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s at age 40. The Davis Phinney Foundation was established in 2004 by the Phinneys and by Cincinnati business leaders Kathleen Krumme and David Ariosa, Mount Lookout residents and managers of Oakley Cycles. The foundation is dedicated to supporting research aimed at understanding, preventing, and treating Parkinson’s disease. Its national leadership council includes Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France champion, and Jeff Garvey, founding chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The Neuroscience Institute, a regional center of excellence at the University of Cincinnati and University Hospital, is dedicated to patient care, research, education, and the development of new treatments for stroke, brain and spinal tumors, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, trauma, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. The institute’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders is a regional referral center for patients in Greater Cincinnati and the surrounding four-state region. The center is currently engaged in 18 clinical trials, which include surgery, and numerous basic science research projects. These include the study of the protective and restorative potential of neuregulins (growth factors involved in neurological functions), the accumulation of markers in brain cells as they degenerate with aging, side effects of standard medications, cellular and cell-signaling “trophic factor” replacement treatment, and embryonic development of cells lost in Parkinson’s disease. The center is affiliated with the UC Department of Neurology, which ranked 10th nationally in NIH-sponsored research funding in 2005, and the Mayfield Clinic, which includes 22 neurosurgeons and sees 20,000 patients from a dozen countries and 35 states in a typical year.
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