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Friday, October 5, 2018
8:45 AM CDT
Living with Parkinson's: Care Partners and Patients Working Together
Presented by the Iowa City Parkinson's Support Group with the assistance of the Iowa Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association.
Registration is FREE (donations on the day of the event are accepted). Attendees will receive a boxed lunch. Online registration closes on Sept. 30 at 11:59 p.m. Walk-in registration will be available.
Please email e.pierson2325@gmail.com or call 319-430-8512 with questions or sponsorship inquiries.
Conference Agenda
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Check-in, On-site Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m.- 9:00 a.m. - Welcome Remarks, Dottie Armens, Chairman Iowa City Parkinson's Support Group
9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. - Keynote Address, Stories of Parkinson's and Fulfilment by Troy Cook, Cook Consulting, Early Onset Parkinson's Patient
9:50 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - Break/Visit Vendors/Transition to Breakout Session #1
10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Breakout Session #1 (choose one of these four options you wish to attend)
Palliative Care - What is It?, Steve Siglin LMSW, Hematology/Oncology Social Worker, UIHC
Long Term Care - Is it for Me? Rachael Benda Director of Operations Agemark Management for Nebraska and Andy Maas, Director of Briarwood Nursing Home Iowa City
Let's Eat - Nutrition and Parkinson's Disease- Brooke Steiguaf RD & LD, Clinical Dietitian and Medical Nutritional Therapist UIHC
How to be a Better Care Partner, Bob Miller, Care Partner and President of the Iowa Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association
11:00 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. - Transition to General Session
11:10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. - Physician with Parkinson's; Observations and Perspectives, Dr. Michael Cassaday, DO, Gastroenterologist (retired), Parkinson's Patient
11:50 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. - Boxed Lunch/Visit Vendors/Transition to Breakout Session #2
12:45 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Breakout Session #2 (choose one of these four options you wish to attend)
Care Partners (Only) - An Open Discussion, Steve Siglin LMSW, Hematology/Oncology Social Worker, UIHC
Deep Brain Stimulation - Before and After, Dr. Teri Thomsen Neurologist, UIHC
Exercise from a Chair for Parkinson's Patients - Kris Cameron B.S., A.C.E. Certified Personal Trainer
Safe Passage with Parkinson's - Avoiding Falls - Kathleen Lee, MSN, RN, Adult Injury Prevention Coordinator UIHC
1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Transition to General Session
1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - What's Ahead for PD in Treatments, Ergun Uc, MD, Professor in the Dept of Neurology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
2:30 p.m. - Closing Remarks
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
140 Gathering Place Lane
Iowa City, IA
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Eastern Iowa Regional Fall Conference on Parkinson's Disease
Friday, October 5, 2018
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Eastern Iowa Regional Fall Conference on Parkinson's Disease
Friday, October 5, 2018
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Friday, October 5, 2018
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140 Gathering Place Lane Iowa City, IA
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