Parkinson’s Disease Symposium

When – Saturday, October 23, 2004

9:00AM–3:30PM

Where – Hart’s Hill Inn

135 Clinton ST.

Whitesboro, NY

Parkinson’s Disease Symposium

Our PD Symposium plans are well underway and we are pleased to have a variety of subjects that should be very informative. Speakers will include the following people:

Dr. Christopher Hyson from Rochester

Dr. Eric Molho from Albany

Dr. Dragos Mihaila from Syracuse

Paul Notar – Medtronics representative

Chris Hahn – from Parkinson Action Network in Wahington, DC

Tony Joseph- Administrator of

Presbyterian Home

Linda Herman – PD patient & advocate

Morning coffee and lunch will be served.

A "Festival of Baskets” will be held. Jo Schmidt has been in charge of the baskets and tells us that the CNYPSG members have been very generous with their donations. Some of the baskets will be worth over $100 or $200. So everyone should be looking forward to buying some raffle tickets and/or selling them.Tickets will be 1 ticket for $2.00 or 6 tickets for $5.00.

Reservations are requested by October 19th, 2004.

For reservations, call

(315)337-2467 or (315)866-3594

Leave your name & phone # and number of people attending including YOU.

By e-mail:

Subject: Re: Symposium

nancyomc@juno.com

glynnismoy@aol.com

Give name & phone # and number of people attending including YOU.

See You There!!!!!

Doo Dah Parade

CNYPSG and friends took steps to boost public awareness of Parkinson's disease and to advertise the Parkinson's Awareness Walk (PAW) at the Presbyterian Home on September 11, when they joined in the Ilion Doo Dah Parade held on July 23. It was a fun time. There were ten people in our contingent, led by Elizabeth Brewer and her granddaughter who, between them, carried our CNYPSG banner. Most of our group were attired in clown outfits or wore signs promoting PAW.

Our banner or flag was a gift from Walt and Sandy Huegel and was made by their daughter. The flag has been used well having been on display at many a health fair in the area as well as at our meetings and events. It traveled to New York's Central Park for the Unity Walk one year, and now it has finally been proudly paraded. Thanks, Walt. That was a good idea.

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Rochester Symposium

On Saturday, September 18, once again, CNYPG hired a bus to take us to the fall symposium in Rochester, and, once again, this joint effort of the University of Rochester Neurology Department and the Parkinson's Support Group of Upstate NY was excellent, well worth the trip. We heard from four U of R faculty members on the topics of Parkinson Basics, Rochester-based PD Research, Depression in PD, and Deep Brain Stimulation. We also heard a brief presentation by Tony Joseph on the PD wing at the Presbyterian Home for Central NY. The highlight of the day was the address by Ruth Hagestuen, RN, MA, who is the Director of Field Services for the National Parkinson Foundation. Her topic was "Learning to Live Creatively with PD," and she was just brimming over with simple yet innovative ideas. All in all, we enjoyed an interesting educational day.

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