Educational Session on Movement Disorders Set for Oct. 17-18
"A Clinicians Guide to Parkinsons Disease and Other Movement Disorders, a two-day CME-accredited educational session, will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17 and 18, at the Cincinnati Club, 30 Garfield Place, downtown Cincinnati.
Thye course is presented by the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Center for Parkinsons Disease and Movement Disorders at the UC Neuroscience Institute. Course directors are Alberto Espay, MD, associate professor in the UC Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, and Kathrin LaFaver, MD, assistant professor of neurology, University of Louisville School of Medicine.
The course is designed for primary care providers, internists, geriatricians, general neurologists, physicians in training and others in the health profession who will be exposed to Parkinsons disease or other movement disorders. Fees are $75 for physicians, $45 for allied health providers and free (registration required) for medical students, residents and fellows.
"A Clinicians Guide to Parkinsons Disease and Other Movement Disorders, a two-day CME-accredited educational session, will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17 and 18, at the Cincinnati Club, 30 Garfield Place, downtown Cincinnati, presented by the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Center for Parkinsons Disease and Movement Disorders.l.Register online at www.uc.edu/eventservices/calendar.html.
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