The Parkinson’s Plan is a new book by Drs. Michael Okun and Ray Dorsey. On January 27, 2026 Michael and Ray came to San Diego for a stop on their international book tour to talk about the causes, treatments, and living well with Parkinson’s disease. This 2-hour event was produced by the Parkinson’s Association of […]
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The Parkinson’s Plan is a new book by Drs. Michael Okun and Ray Dorsey. On January 27, 2026 Michael and Ray came to San Diego for a stop on their international book tour to talk about the causes, treatments, and living well with Parkinson’s disease. This 2-hour event was produced by the Parkinson’s Association of
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The Parkinson’s Plan is a new book by Drs. Michael Okun and Ray Dorsey. On January 27, 2026 Michael and Ray came to San Diego for a stop on their international book tour to talk about the causes, treatments, and living well with Parkinson’s disease. This 2-hour event was produced by the Parkinson’s Association of
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The Parkinson’s Plan is a new book by Drs. Michael Okun and Ray Dorsey. On January 27, 2026 Michael and Ray came to San Diego for a stop on their international book tour to talk about the causes, treatments, and living well with Parkinson’s disease. This 2-hour event was produced by the Parkinson’s Association of
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“The Syn-One Test is a skin biopsy test that provides accurate pathological evidence to aid in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with clinical features suggestive of a synucleinopathy like Parkinson’s disease.” In this episode, Dr. Padma Mahant, the director of medical affairs at CND Life Sciences talks about the test, what can be learned from
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Part of the changes afoot at the Parkinson’s Association of San Diego is the joining of Community Liaison Steve Steinberg. This is a new position at PASD. Steve, a licensed clinical social worker, will be picking up the phone and responding to emails, handing all our referral and information conversations. Steve has been leading the
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Today we welcome our new Executive Director Stephanie Murphy. After eight years former executive director Chris Buscher as decided to retire and Stephanie has taken over the reins. With a long career in non-profits and the public sector and a very personal relationship with Parkinson’s and the Parkinson’s Association of San Diego, we are all
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What happens when a very public author and journalist decides to tell their audience that they now have Parkinson’s? In this powerful episode we meet Annmarie O’Connor, long time fashion editor of the Irish Examiner. Diagnosed in her 40’s, join us as Annmarie looks back at the decision to go very public about her journey
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Dr. Michael Okun, a neurologist at University of Florida, has spent almost 25 years researching Parkinson’s and treating people with Parkinson’s. Now, in one of the best written and most accessible books ever written on Parkinson’s, Dr. Okun and Dr. Ray Dorsey lay out the plan
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Sasha Graham, host of the podcast, Sports Will Save Us All, joins us to reflect on the hundreds of interviews she has done with professional and amateur athletes and coaches about the professional athlete’s mindset.
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How do you prepare for your visit with your movement disorders specialist – your doctor, nurse practitioner, or PA? In this episode filled with practical guidance, Sherrie Gould, NP, CMRD, continues with her series about working with your medical care team.
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We recently crossed the threshold of 100 podcasts and it’s become an amazing collection of information related to living a better life with Parkinson’s. However, it’s always been difficult to find specific information in a specific episode. We solved that with our new PASD Microcast Directory. Search by category, search by keyword, including the name
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In this episode we continue our series with Sherrie Gould, NP, CMRD on the relationship between you and your care team. Sherrie looks at the benefits and value of seeing an advanced practice provider – a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant and provides some insight on the training, education, and experiences APPs have in the
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If you have Parkinson’s, should you see a neurologist who is a movement disorders specialist? A general neurologist? An advanced practice provider – nurse practitioner or PA? Or your primary care physician. Although this may seem like an obvious series of questions, in this episode nurse practitioner Sherrie Gould unpacks some of the differences between
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When we conceived the topic for this microcast the idea was to talk about the differences for a coach working wth older athletes and younger athletes, or older people with Parkinson’s who have to exercise and younger people, with or without Parkinson’s, who want to exercise. However, as the conversation developed, the apparent differences became
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We hear occasionally that our website is so full of useful and important information about Parkinson’s and each person’s journey with Parkinson’s that sometimes it can be overwhelming. Where to start? Where to look? What do I need today to help me? To help ease that information-overload, we just created a series of “Quick Link”
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Dr. Chavakula, affiliated with Sharp Healthcare, has recently completed his 50th MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound procedure for people with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. In this episode we look at recent advancements in the technology, discuss some of the differences between focused ultrasound and deep brain stimulation, and talk about some of the history of these
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In this episode we meet Dr. Anna Halbeisen, a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine board-certified in emergency medicine, sports medicine as well as neuromusculoskeletal/osteopathic manual medicine. We talk with Dr. Halbeisen about exercise and how that impacts your body from a medical perspective, particularly in people diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
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June 11, 2025. Mark your calendars. PASD’s Director of Operations, Jeff Seckendorf, will attempt to break four world cycling records to support the Parkinson’s Association of San Diego. In this episode Jeff switched roles from interviewer to interviewee as Sherrie Gould, NP asked Jeff about the ride, the bike, the velodrome, and what it’s like
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In this slightly longer episode, I was invited to speak to the North County Parkinson’s Support Group in Oceanside, CA on the topic of mindfulness. In this half hour we look at rest and recovery for the body and for the mind, the difference between meditation and meditative, and we do a short, three minute
