International Congress Committees
MDS would like to acknowledge the following committees for their help developing the 2024 International Congress:
International Congress Oversight Committee
Francisco Cardoso
Chair
Committee Members
David Burn
Susan Fox
Victor Fung
Beomseok Jeon
Ron Postuma
Claudia Trenkwalder
Congress Scientific Program Committee
Ron Postuma, Canada
Chair
Beomseok Jeon, Korea
Co-Chair
Roy Alcalay
Beomseok Jeon
Han-Joon Kim
Thomas Kimber
Gabor Kovacs
Chin-Hsien Lin
Davide Martino
Niccolo Mencacci
Genko Oyama
Sanjay Pandey
Cecilia Peralta
Ron Postuma
Irena Rektorova
Maria Rodriguez-Oroz
Huifang Shang
Andrew Siderowf
Laura Silveira-Moriyama
Maria Stamelou
Per Svenningsson
Laura Williams
Ad Hoc members:
David Burn
Francisco Cardoso
Marina De Koning-Tijssen
Francesca Morgante
Harini Sarva
Elina Tripoliti
Congress Local Organizing Committee
Beomseok Jeon
Chair
Committee Members
Jin Whan Cho
Sun Ju Chung
Jong-Min Kim
Kyum-Yil Kwon
Jae-Hyeok Lee
Jee-Young Lee
Hae-Won Shin
Jinyoung Youn
MDS Officers (2025-2027)
President
David Burn, FMedSci, MD, FRCP
University of Galway
Galway, Ireland
President-Elect
Susan Fox, MRCP (UK), PhD
Professor Neurology
University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto, Canada
Past President
Victor Fung, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
Westmead Hospital
Sydney, Australia
Secretary
Jennifer G. Goldman, MD, MS
Barrow Neurological Institute,
Phoenix, AZ, USA
JPG Enterprises LLC,
Chicago, IL, USA
Secretary-Elect
Marcelo Merello, MD PhD
Head Movement Disorders
F.L.E.N.I.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Treasurer
Beomseok Jeon, MD, PhD
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, Korea
Treasurer-Elect
Carolyn M. Sue, MBBS PhD FRACP
Kinghorn Chair of Neurodegeneration
University of New South Wales
Neuroscience Research Australia
Sydney, Australia
International Executive Committee (2023-2025)
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
Njideka Okubadejo, MD, FMCP, FAAN
University of Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
Committee Member
Per Svenningsson, MD, PhD
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Committee Member
Shen-Yang Lim, MBBS MD FRACP FASc
Senior Consultant Neurologist & Professor
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Committee Member
Steven Frucht, MD
Director of Movement Disorders
NYU Langone
New York, NY, USA
Committee Member
Tiago Mestre, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
Committee Member
Raymond Rosales, MD PhD
Professor
The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas
Manila, Philippines
Committee Member
Antonio Strafella, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto, Canada
Committee Member
Marie Vidailhet, MD, PhD
Professor
Salpetriere Hospital
ICM / Paris Brain Institute
Paris, France