World Parkinson Congress

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Women’s Parkinson’s Project present

“Unmet Needs of Women Living with Parkinson’s Disease: The Gaps and Controversies

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 the WPC and WPP mark International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias with a bilingual webinar (English and Spanish).

40% of people living with Parkinson’s are women and in fact in some Asian countries more women than men live with PD. Women have a longer time to diagnosis and less access to neurologist care and are underrepresented in research. Women and men seem to differ in symptomology, yet treatment is a one size fits all. Whilst other chronic diseases such as cancer are utilising sex and gender differences to personalise treatment, women with PD receive treatment irrespective of these differences. Sex differences such as body weight, drug metabolism, and hormones all need to be considered as do the gender differences of caregiving responsibilities within the family along with occupational and other competing demands when treating women with PD. In this webinar, the panel of authors will discuss these issues and more from the recently published paper Unmet Needs of Women Living with Parkinson's Disease: Gaps and Controversies. The panel will also answer questions from attendees.

Let’s raise the voices of women living with PD.

Moderator: Richelle Flanagan, Registered Dietitian, WPC Ambassador 2023, PD Avengers Founding Member, Co-Founder Women’s Parkinson’s Project, Founder My Moves Matter, Ireland
Panelists: Dr. Soania Mathur, MD, PD Advocate, Co-founder PD Avengers, Founder Unshakeable MD, Ontario, Canada
Professor Elena Moro, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology at the faculty of medicine of the Grenoble Alpes University in Grenoble, France. Co-chair of EAN Task Force on Gender and Diversity issues in Neurology
Dr. Indu Subramanian, MDS Parkinson’s Center of Excellence at the West Los Angeles Dr Veteran’s Hospital and UCLA Hospital
Dr. Adrienne Keener, MDS Parkinson’s Center of Excellence at the West Los Angeles Dr Veteran’s Hospital and UCLA Hospital
Dr. Annelien Oosterbaan, MD/PhD, PD Advocate, Gynaecologist, The Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands
Dr. MariaTeresa Ferretti, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Women's Brain Project, Switzerland

Resource: Subramanian I, Mathur S, Oosterbaan A, Flanagan R, Keener AM, Moro E. Unmet Needs of Women Living with Parkinson's Disease: Gaps and Controversies. Mov Disord. 2022 Jan 20. doi: 10.1002/mds.28921. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35060180.
Please register for the WPP WPC Webinar on the Unmet needs of women with PD by clicking the link below:
WPP WPC Webinar Link

Find us on Twitter here: @womenspdproject

Looking for more information? Reach out to: Richelle Flannigan richelleyopd@gmail.com