{"id":5039,"date":"2016-09-06T19:37:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2017-11-06T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:12:48","slug":"parkinson-canada-research-sparks-meaningful-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archiveparkinson.thedev.ca\/fr\/parkinson-canada-research-sparks-meaningful-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson Canada research sparks meaningful impact"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Sean Udow visits Parkinson Canada\u2019s Toronto office to record a public webinar and work on education resources. He recently completed a Parkinson Canada funded fellowship, but remains involved in the Parkinson community in several ways \u2013 as an educator, researcher, volunteer expert and clinician.<\/p><\/div>\n

TORONTO, ON, September 28, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Parkinson Canada has great expectations for the 19 researchers receiving new grant, fellowship and student awards over the next two years. They will not only advance our knowledge of Parkinson\u2019s, a complex brain disease, but also they will interpret and share their knowledge with other health professionals, often treat individuals living with Parkinson\u2019s and continue their involvement with the Parkinson\u2019s community.<\/p>\n

This is the case with\u00a0Dr. Sean Udow, who has recently honed his clinical skills, while investigating the potential connection between blood pressure fluctuations and cognitive deficits in people with Parkinson\u2019s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, at Toronto\u2019s Sunnybrook Research Institute. His Garden Centre Group Co-op Corp. Clinical Movement Disorders Fellowship was awarded by the\u00a0Parkinson Canada Research Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Dr. Udow continues his training and research during a second fellowship year at Toronto Western Hospital, he is also a volunteer expert on Parkinson Canada\u2019s Medical Advisory Committee, helping to produce evidence-based educational resources for health professionals and people living with Parkinson\u2019s. Earlier this month he delivered a Parkinson Canada public webinar on Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson Disease. He\u2019ll also be working with Parkinson Canada to survey people living with Parkinson\u2019s and their caregivers about what issues they need their doctors to discuss with them. He\u2019ll then develop an educational tool to help physicians explain these issues to their patients.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Dr. Udow will return to Winnipeg, Manitoba to practice as a movement disorders specialist, a medical specialty in high demand all across Canada. The training of such specialists is a mandate of the Parkinson Canada Research Program, as the evidence points to dramatically increasing demand for such expertise in the future. Every day, 25 Canadians learn they have Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

As of September 2016, Parkinson Canada is proud to support\u00a019 new grants, fellowships and student awards*<\/strong>. These represent a total of $1,124,018 to support new research projects in Canada during the next two years. Including the nine research awards in their second year, and the 19 new projects, the Parkinson Canada Research Program will invest $1,439,018.<\/p>\n

New awards include:<\/p>\n