R. Mark Evans, PhD. Director, Healthcare Education Products and Standards

R. Mark Evans, PhD
Director, Healthcare Education Products and Standards

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Parkinson's Disease

Primary care physicians will encounter increasing numbers of patients with Parkinson's diseases as the population ages. Improvement in diagnostic accuracy leads to better clinical care in terms of educating patients and families, choosing appropriate treatment and eventually, when neuroprotective therapies become available, instituting earlier therapy.

Current Certified Webcasts

Management of Late Stage Parkinson’s Disease: A Focus on Motor Complications

Janis Miyasaki, MD, The Movement Disorders Centre, Toronto Western Hospital; Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Managing Early Parkinson’s Disease

Cindy Zadikoff, MD, Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Clinical Issues in the Early Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease

Shobha S. Rao, MD, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
Kathleen M. Shannon, MD, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Med. Ctr., Chicago, IL
William J. Weiner, MD, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Identifying Parkinson's Disease in the Primary Care Setting

Kathleen M. Shannon, MD, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Med. Ctr., Chicago, IL