Date & Time: Friday, 19 September 2025, 4:55pm – 7:15pm (AEST)
Format: Online meeting
Registration: Email Shelley.Mills@newcastle.edu.au to receive the meeting link.
Chairperson: Simon Lewis, Professor of Cognitive Neurology, Macquarie University
Programme Highlights:
4:55pm – Acknowledgement of Country & Opening Remarks
Dr C Padmakumar, Chair, Hunter Parkinson’s Society
5:00pm – 5:45pm – My Story of L-DOPA
Professor Anders Björklund, Neuroscientist, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden
5:45pm – 6:30pm – MOOC – A Success Story
Professor Jane Alty, Professor in Neurology, University of Tasmania, Australia
6:30pm – 7:15pm – Frailty in Parkinson’s Disease
Dr Barbara Rosario, Senior Consultant Geriatrician and Clinical Assistant Professor, NUS, Singapore
Conference Organiser: HPMI, University of Newcastle, Callaghan
Tel: (02) 4913 8173