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Course Description and Target Audience
This course will focus on the non-motor aspects of Parkinson’s disease. While motor aspects are being better controlled pharmacologically and with deep brain stimulation, cognitive, psychiatric, autonomic aspects are quite challenging to diagnose and treat. Experts in the field will discuss each of the aspects and current management approaches.

This course is designed for neurologists, physicians, physician assistants and other health professionals serving in the neurology practice setting.


Agenda
7:30 AM
Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM
Premotor Features of Parkinson’s Disease
Irene Litvan, M.D.

8:25 AM
Non-Motor Fluctuations
David Houghton, MD

8:50 AM
Cognitive Aspects
Kate Voorhees, Psy.D

9:15 AM
Autonomic Problems
Jay Ferrara, MD

9:40 AM
Anxiety and Depression in Parkinson’s Disease
David Moore, M.D.

10:05 AM
Break

10:20 AM
Gait Problems and Falls
Kathy Paper, PT

10:45 AM
Speech Problems
Katie Flerlage, MS, CCC-SLP

11:10 AM
Quality of Life
Colleen Knoop, ARNP
Marie Schneider, OT
Diane Stretz-Thurmond, M.ED

11:40 AM
New Clinical Trials
Annette Robinson, RN

12:00 PM
Adjournment


Faculty
Irene Litvan, M.D.
Course Director
University of Louisville Neurology
Raymond Lee Lebby Professor of Neurology
Director, Division of Movement Disorders
Louisville, Kentucky

Jay Ferrara, M.D.
University of Louisville Neurology
Division of Movement Disorders
Louisville, Kentucky

David Houghton, M.D., MPH
University of Louisville Neurology
Division of Movement Disorders
Louisville, Kentucky

David Moore, MD
Gratis Faculty
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
Louisville, Kentucky

Colleen Knoop, MSN, ARNP, FNP, NP-C
University of Louisville Neurology
Louisville, Kentucky

Katie Flerlage, M.S., CCC-SLP
Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Institute
Louisville, Kentucky

Kathryn Voorhees, Psy.D.
Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Institute
Louisville, Kentucky

Diane Stretz-Thurmond, MED, CRC, CBIS
Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Institute
Louisville, Kentucky

Kathy Paper, PT
Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Institute
Louisville, Kentucky

Marie Schneider, OT
Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Institute
Louisville, Kentucky

Annette Robinson, RN
University of Louisville Neurology
Division of Movement Disorders
Louisville, Kentucky


Continuing Education Credit
Physician Credit - University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing Credit - This program has been approved by the Kentucky Board of Nursing for 4.5 contact hours provider number 3-0046-01-2013-104 through the University of Louisville School of Nursing, expiration date January 31, 2013. The Kentucky Board of Nursing approval of an individual nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program content. Participants must attend entire session, provide license and SS#, and complete evaluation to receive contact hours.

AAFP - Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.


Registration
This is a free program, but advance registration is required

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Parking
Free parking is available to attendees in the parking garage adjacent to the Rudd Heart and Lung Center.


Driving Directions
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Brochure
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Learning Objectives & Outcomes

• Identify the scope of autonomic symptoms seen in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, including urinary bladder dysfunction, orthostatic hypotension, constipation and excessive sweating.
• Recognize which autonomic symptoms are impacted (for better or worse) by dopaminergic drugs, such as carbidopalevodopa, and which symptoms are unaffected.
• Manage common autonomic symptoms with pharmacotherapies.
• Recognize cognitive aspects of Parkinson’s disease.
• Identify three common characteristics of the typical Parkinson’s disease gait pattern.
• Describe two common strategies used to help decrease freezing episodes.
• Demonstrate two fall prevention techniques that can be used in the home.
• Identify the premotor features of Parkinson’s disease.
• Evaluate which features may better predict Parkinson’s disease.

Special Services
If you need special accommodations due to a disability, or for an alternative form of course materials, please contact us at chse@louisville.edu. Continuing Health Sciences Education fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof.


Accreditation
The University of Louisville School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.