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International Congress Committees

MDS would like to acknowledge the following committees for their help developing the 2024 International Congress:

 

International Congress Oversight Committee


Claudia Trenkwalder
Chair

Committee Members
David Burn, United Kingdom
Francisco Cardoso, Brazil
Victor Fung, Australia
Christopher Goetz, USA
Wassilios Meissner, France

Ad-Hoc Members
Michiko Bruno (Ad-Hoc), USA
Maria Stamelou (Ad-Hoc), Greece

Congress Scientific Program Committee

Steven Frucht
Maria Stamelou, Greece
Chair


Michiko Bruno, USA
Co-Chair

Roy Alcalay, Israel
David Burn, United Kingdom
Francisco Cardoso, Brazil
Jonathan Carr, South Africa
William Dauer, USA
Steven Frucht, USA
Victor Fung, Australia
Taku Hatano, Japan
Han-Joon Kim, Korea
Gabor Kovacs, Canada
Manju Kurian, United Kingdom
Simon Lewis, Australia
Chin-Hsien Lin, Taiwan 
Davide Martino, Canada
Niccolo Mencacci, USA

Shivam Mittal, United Arab Emirates
Francesca Morgante, United Kingdom
Huw Morris, United Kingdom
Pramod Pal, India
Ronald Postuma, Canada
Irena Rektorova, Czech Republic
Maria Rodriguez-Oroz, Spain
Mayela Rodriguez Violante, Mexico
Harini Sarva, USA
Andrew Siderowf, USA
Laura Silveira-Moriyama, Brazil
Claudia Trenkwalder, Germany
Elina Tripoliti, Greece

Congress Local Organizing Committee


Michiko Bruno, USA
Chair

Committee Members
Fay Gao, USA
Webster Ross, USA
Caroline Tanner, USA

MDS Officers (2023-2025)

 

President
Victor Fung, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
Westmead Hospital
Sydney, Australia

President-Elect
David Burn, FMedSci, MD, FRCP
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Past President
Francisco Cardoso, MD, PhD, FAAN
The Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Secretary
Marina de Koning-Tijssen, MD, PhD
University Medical Centre Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands

Secretary-Elect
Jennifer G. Goldman, MD, MS
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA

Treasurer
Wassilios Meissner, MD, PhD
CHU Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France

Treasurer-Elect
Beomseok Jeon, MD, PhD
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, Korea

International Executive Committee (2023-2025)

Committee Member
Roongroj Bhidayasiri, MD, FRCP, FRCPI
Chulalongkorn Centre of Excellence on Parkinson's Disease & Related Disorders
Bangkok, Thailand

Committee Member
Margherita Fabbri, MD
Toulouse University Hospital
Toulouse, France

Committee Member
Emilia Mabel Gatto, MD, FAAN
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Committee Member
Nobutaka Hattori, MD, PhD
Juntendo University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan

Committee Member
Hyder Jinnah, MD, PhD
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA

Committee Member
Regina Katzenschlager, MD
Klinik Donaustadt Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Committee Member
Njideka Okubadejo, MD, FMCP, FAAN
University of Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria

Committee Member
Tanya Simuni, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA

Committee Member
Per Svenningsson, MD, PhD
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

Committee Member
Eng-King Tan, MD
National Neuroscience Institute
Singapore, Singapore

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