Power Over Parkinson's

In our latest installment of POP Profiles, Power Over Parkinson’s President, Margaret Preston, sat down with Dr. George Ackerman, founder of Together for Sharon, a grassroots Parkinson’s awareness initiative dedicated to honoring his late mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman. The conversation explored Dr. Ackerman’s deeply personal journey—from his mother’s Parkinson’s diagnosis to his mission to educate, connect, and empower families affe...

Dr. Annie Killoran, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and the University of Iowa, joins us as we discuss why understanding Parkinson’s Disease stages is helpful for both clinicians and patients. We cover how staging the disease can better help in identifying and delivering targeted therapies as well as how it can aide in the acceptance of the disease and its many and varied characteristics. Dr. Killoran also ...

Dr. Sule Tinaz, Associate Professor of Neurology at the Yale School of Medicine in the Movement Disorders Division and Clinical Neurosciences Imaging Center, joins us to talk, you guessed it, exercise! We can never hear too much information and advocacy on exercise. Why? Because it’s the only known intervention that is known to alleviate the symptoms and slow the progression of the disease. Dr. Tinaz’s research is focused on develo...

Allie Signorelli, Parkinson’s Advocate and person with young onset Parkinson’s (YOPD), shares her journey to diagnosis and how she’s positively impacting the Parkinson’s community at a national level. Allie is lending her voice through advocacy and harnessing her career experience, particularly in fundraising and event management, to serve our community and aid in research that’s related to both therapeutics as well as the cure tha...

Listen as Kristine Meldrum, Author and Founder & President of Parkinson’s Place Iowa, shares her expertise on all things Parkinson’s and exercise. Having paved the way for coaching Parkinson’s patients through evidence-based exercise programs, Kristine is in a league of her own when it comes to understanding precisely how those with the disease should exercise. Having recently published, Parkinson’s: How to Reduce the Symptoms ...

Join us as we sit down with Dr. Catherine Crenshaw, Neuropsychologist and the Director of the Perioperative Cognitive Anesthesia Network (PeCAN) at the University of Florida, for another targeted discussion related to Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Crenshaw conducts imperative work as it relates to cognitive changes for older adults who have elected surgery with anesthesia. Listen as Dr. Crenshaw clearly describes the gaps in care and ul...

In this installment of our POP Profile Series we sit down with Dr. Alberto Espay, Professor, Director, and Endowed Chair of James and Joan Gardner Center for Parkinson’s Disease at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Espay’s exuberance and passion for researching future therapies in Parkinson’s Disease is palpable and his novel approach in deconstructing barriers that accompany disease labels is profoundly impactful.

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Listen as Dr. Woodford Beech, Speech-Language Pathologist at the VCU Parkinson’s and Movement Disorder Center, a Parkinson’s Center of Excellence, shares an overview of speech and swallowing changes in Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Beech gives practical guidance and advice on managing these potential challenges with a clear understanding of the critical balance between mitigating every symptom and ensuring quality-of-life (i.e. - one’s ...

Listen as Leslie Davidson, author of Dancing in Small Spaces and person with Parkinson’s Disease, shares her inspiration behind her candid memoir on the life she built with her beloved husband, Lincoln. After receiving two devastating progressive diagnoses - she with Parkinson’s and he with Lewy Body Dementia - Leslie and Lincoln managed to not only utilize the strength in their relationship to process their respective diagnoses, b...

Listen as Dr. Christine Esper, Associate Professor within the Department of Neurology at Emory University, shares many advancements within the Parkinson’s Disease space. Dr. Esper elaborates on her work within the Emory Brain Health Center’s 3D Motion Capture Lab and how both gait and tremor in Parkinson’s are being analyzed. Dr. Esper also shares how she’s been on the forefront of examining how DBS tele-programming can be successf...

Listen as Dr. Richard Manfready, Instructor in Medicine in Digestive Diseases at Rush University Medical Center, shares the gut-brain connection in Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Manfready elaborates on his research that has him working backwards in a remarkable way. He has taken the known factors about Parkinson’s – loss of dopamine producing cells due to misfolded proteins - and has notably taken a step back from there. By finding that...

Dr. Ray Dorsey from the University of Rochester and co-author of the book, Ending Parkinson’s, sits down with us for our POP Profile Series. He shares his unequivocal stance that Parkinson’s is truly the pandemic of our time as the fastest growing neurological disorder. The Parkinson’s community is better because of Dr. Dorsey’s passion around ending the silence and motivating people with and without the disease to speak up and tak...

Dr. Kathleen Poston from the Poston Lab at Stanford University’s Department of Neurology and Neurological Services, shares her time with us to share more about the research being conducted related to the non-motor symptoms of the disease, particularly around cognitive impairment. Listen as Dr. Poston elaborates on how using neuroimaging to examine various individual proteins as well as how analyzing cerebrospinal fluid to assess a ...