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2006 Udall Centers Meeting Info and Agenda

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8th Annual Morris K. Udall Centers Director's Meeting
September 19-21, 2006
Hyatt Harborside Hotel, Boston, MA

WELCOME

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is continuing it's mission to reduce the burden of neurological disease. Parkinson's is one such disease that devastates thousands of Americans by progressively impairing the control of purposeful movement. The President of the United States Signed into Law on November 13, 1997 appropriations legislation that included The Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-78).

Since this time the Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence has continued to provide the best in basic, translational and clinical research adding new Centers including the Parkinson's Disease Data Coordinating Center (PD-DOC) at the University of Rochester which has already begun to centralize many data elements from clinical research from the Udall Centers and other related Parkinson's disease research.

The PD-DOC has once again arranged for the Udall Center Director's Meeting, now in it's 8th year and will continue to organize logistics and coordination of directors and attendees. We welcome and appreciate the work Rochester has put into managing and organizing this meeting and once again believe the Centers have exceeded our expectations to foster a research environment that enhances research effectiveness and we look forward to this year's meeting in Boston, MA.

The meeting logistics are being organized by the University of Rochester, for registration or any other questions concerning logistics please contact either Ms. Donna LaDonna via phone (585) 275-7937 or via email to donna_ladonna@urmc.rochester.edu or Ms. Sandy Plumb via phone at (585) 275-1034 or email sandy.plumb@ctcc.rochester.edu.

TENTATIVE AGENDA

All general sessions will take place in Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Harborside Hotel

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
6:00 p.m.                      Poster Presentation Set-up                                                                      Harborside Pavilion
7:00 p.m. Registration and Reception with Poster Session
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
  Diane Murphy, PhD, NIH
  Center Progress Reports - Part 1
8:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  Moderators: Dr. Diane Murphy and Dr. Eugene Oliver
8:45 - 9:15 a.m. University of Virginia
  Director: G. Fred Wooten, MD
9:15 - 9:45 a.m. University of Pittsburgh
  Director: Michael J. Zigmond, PhD
9:45 - 10:15 a.m. University of Kentucky
  Director: Greg A. Gerhardt, PhD
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. BREAK
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. University of California, Los Angeles
  Director: Marie-Francoise S. Chesselet, MD
11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Northwestern University
  Director: D. James Surmeier, PhD
11:30 - 12:00 p.m. Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville
  Director: Dennis W. Dickson, MD
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. Massachusetts General Hospital/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Director: Anne Young, MD, PhD
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH Harborside Pavillion
1:30 - 4:45 p.m. Scientific Session
1:30 - 2:15 p.m. Andrew Singleton, PhD (NIH)
  "Update on the Genetics of PD"
2:15 - 3:00 p.m. Krys Bankiewicz, MD, PhD (UCSF)
  "Gene Therapy for PD"
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. BREAK
3:15 - 4:00 p.m. TBD
4:00 - 4:15 p.m. Diane Murphy, PhD
6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Dinner with Invited Speaker (TBD) Skyline Ballroom
  William Langston, MD (Parkinson's Institute)
  "PD: A New Viewpoint"
Thursday, September 21, 2006
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.        Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.        NINDS Update
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.        PD-DOC Update
         2007 Udall Centers Meeting Location and Date
9:30 - 12:15 p.m.       Center Progress Reports - Part 2
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.       Johns Hopkins University
        Director: Ted M. Dawson, MD, PhD
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.       Harvard University/McLean Hospital
        Director: Ole Isacson, MD
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.       BREAK
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.       Duke University
        Director: Jeffrey M. Vance, MD
11:15 - 11:45 a.m.       Columbia University
        Director: Robert Burke, MD
11:45 - 12:15 p.m.       Brigham and Women's Hospital
        Interim Director: Dennis Selkoe, MD
12:15 - 12:30 p.m.       Closing Remarks

Last updated May 08, 2007