Professional Notices

Conference Calendar 2008-2009

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2008 | 2009

May

May 16-17, 2008 2nd International Brainstorming Conference on Parkinson's Disease. Louisville, KY, USA. Contact: University of Louisville, Continuing Health Sciences Education, 511 South Floyd Street, MDR Building 111, Louisville, KY, USA 40202; TEL: +1-502-852-5329; FAX: +1-502-852-6300; E-mail: ; Website: http://www.chse.louisville.edu/parkinson's08.html.

May 17, 2008 Restless Legs Syndrome and Parkinson's Disease in the Office Setting: Case Studies. Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, Atlanta, GA, USA. Contact: Bridgit Nelezen, Program Manager, The Movement Disorder Society, 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, WI 53220 USA; TEL: +1 414-276-2145; FAX: +1 414-276-3349; E-mail: ; Web site: www.movementdisorders.org.

June

June 7-11, 2008 18th Meeting of the European Neurological Society. Palais de congres Acropolis, Nice, France. Contact: ENS Administrative Secretariat c/o AKM Congress Service, Basel, Switzerland; TEL: +41-61-686-77-11; FAX: +41-61-686-77-88; E-mail: ; Web site: www.akm.ch/ens2008.

June 12-15, 2008 Toxins 2008 - Basic and Therapeutic Aspects of Botulinum and Tetanus Toxins. Baveno, Lake Maggiore, Italy. Contact: Domm International, Via Rossini 20122 Milano, Italy; Fax: +39 02 760 001 81; E-mail: ; Web site: http://www.toxins2008.org/

June 22-26, 2008 12th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders. Chicago, IL, USA. Offered by The Movement Disorder Society. Contact: The Movement Disorder Society, 555 E. Wells Street, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 USA; TEL: +1 414-276-2145; FAX: +1 414-276-3349; E-mail: ; Web site: www.movementdisorders.org

June 28-30, 2008 Fourth International Neuroacanthocytosis Symposium. United Kingdom. Contact: Advocacy for Neuroacanthocytosis Patients, Glenn Irvine; TEL: +44 20 7409 0092; Email: ; Web site: www.naadvocacy.org.

July

July 28-31, 2008 18th Annual Course - A Comprehensive Review of Movement disorders for the Clinical Practitioner. Hotel Jerome, Aspen, Colorado, USA. Contact: Center for Continuing Medical Education, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 630 Wet 168th Street, Unit 39, New York, NY 10032, USA; TEL: +1-212-305-3334; FAX: +1-212-781-6047; E-mail: ; Website: http://ColumbiaCME.org.

September

September 11-13, 2008 Parkinson’s Disease and other Movement Disorders, The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, USA. Contact: Sheila Newby, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL 32224; TEL: +1-904-953-2944; FAX: +1-904-953-2954; E-mail: ; Web site: www.mayo.ed/cme

September 17-20, 2008 American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) Annual Meeting. Providence, RI, USA. Contact: Shelly Hansen, AANEM, 421 1st Avenue, SW Ste 300E, Rochester, MN 55902 USA; TEL: +1 507-288-0100; FAX: +1 507-288-1225; E-mail: ; Web site: www.aanem.org

September 17-21, 2008 11th Congress of the European Society of Hypnosis (ESH). Vienna, Austria. Contact: Marianne Martin, European Society of Hypnosis, Sternwartestr. 21a/13, Vienna, Austria; TEL: + 431-479-6458; FAX: + 431-440-7290; E-mail: ; Web site: www.vienna.hypnos.de.

September 19-20, 2008 2nd Marburg Symposium on REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: From Early Diagnosis to Therapeutic Intervention, Marburg, Germany. Contact: Prof. Wolfgang Oertel, Philipps-Marburg University; TEL: +49-6421-2866279; FAX: +49-6421-2867055; E-mail: ; Website: http://neurologie.med.uni-marburg.de.

September 21, 2008 22nd Annual Symposium on Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders. American Neurological Association Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Contact: Roseanna Battista, Parkinson Study Group, 1351 Mt. Hope Avenue, Suite 223, Rochester, NY 14620, USA; TEL: +1-585-275-1642; FAX: +1-585-273-1074; E-mail: ; Web site: www.parkinson-study-group.org.

September 25-26, 2008 Manganism-Neurotoxicity and the Clinical Syndrome, Tartu, Estonia. Contact: Estonian Society of Neurologists and Neurosurgeons; TEL: +372-5189319; FAX: +372-7318509; E-mail: ; Web site: www.kliinikum.ee/nns

October

October 1-4, 2008 Third International Conference on Transcranial Magnetic and Direct Current Stimulation, University of Goettingen, Germany. Contact: Walter Paulus, MD, University of Goettingen, Germany; TEL: +49-551-396650; FAX: +49-551-398126; E-mail: ; Website: www.tms08.uni-goettingen.de.

October 16-19, 2008 6th International Congress on Mental Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease. Dresden, Germany. Contact: Kenes International - Global Congress Organizers & Association Management Services, 17 Rue du Cendrier, P.O. Box 1726, CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland; TEL: +41-22-908-0488; FAX: +41-22-732-2850; E-mail: ; Web site: www.kenes.com/pdment2008

October 23-26, 2008 The Second World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy). Athens, Greece. Contact: Comtec Med – Medical Congresses, P.O. Box 68, Tel Aviv, 61000 Israel; TEL: +972-3-5666166; Fax: +972-3-566177; E-mail: ; Web site: www.comtecmed.com/cony

October 29-November 1, 2008 The 19th International Symposium on the Autonomic Nervous System. Kauai, Hawaii. Contact: Anita Zeller, AAS Executive Secretary, American Autonomic Society, 18915 Inca Avenue, Lakeville, MN 55044; TEL: +1-952-469-5837; FAX: +1-952-469-8424, E-mail: ; Web site: www.americanautonomicsociety.org.

December

December 11-13, 2008 Old and New Dopamine Agonists in Parkinson's disease. Pisa, Italy. Contact: Coventur-Siena; Web site: www.conventursiena.it


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