Live Webinar: Deep Brain Stimulation – The Latest Advancements, 2024 Edition
with Dr. Soania Mathur and Dr. Joohi Jimenez-Shahed
Thursday, September 5, 2024
9 am MDT/Denver
8 am PDT/Los Angeles and Phoenix
10 am CDT/Chicago
11 am EDT/New York
In this webinar, Dr. Soania Mathur and Dr. Joohi Jimenez-Shahed discuss the current state of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) as a Parkinson’s treatment.
During this conversation, Dr. Mathur and Dr. Jimenez-Shahed will talk about Adaptive DBS, developments in DBS Programming, safety considerations related to DBS, and more.
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Your Speaker for the Webinar
Dr. Soania Mathur
Dr. Soania Mathur is a physician in Canada who resigned her clinical practice 12 years after her diagnosis of young onset Parkinson’s at age 28. Now a dedicated speaker, writer, educator, and Parkinson’s advocate, Dr. Mathur is the founder of UnshakeableMD and a co-founder of PD Avengers. Dr. Mathur has served as a member of the Davis Phinney Foundation Board of Directors since 2018.
Dr. Joohi Jimenez-Shahed
Dr. Joohi Jimenez-Shahed is the Medical Director of Movement Disorders Neuromodulation & Brain Circuit Therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After completing her undergraduate degree at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Jimenez-Shahed received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Neurology residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She then completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Center at BCM. Her research interests lie in investigating the intraoperative neurophysiology of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders and the application of wearables and digital health technologies to the care of patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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