Join us Aug. 18 in Birmingham - Registration is open!
Join us Aug. 18 in Birmingham - Registration is open!
Join us for the Alabama Acacemy of Neurology's Annual Conference!
We are excited about our upcoming conference and stellar line up of speakers for 2018. 
The one-day conference will be Aug. 18 at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham - The Wynfey Hotel.
Conference Spotlight: Update on Medical and Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, and Harrison Walker, MD
David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, is the John N. Whitaker Professor and Chair of Neurology at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. Prior to that, he was appointed the John T. and Juanelle D. Strain Endowed Chair by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama system, which he held for five years.

He received his MD and PhD degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in medicine and pharmacology in 1988. He completed a one-year internship in medicine at Jewish Hospital of St. Louis in 1989 and a three-year neurology residency in 1992 at the University of Pennsylvania.

He completed a three-year research and clinical fellowship in neurology (movement disorders) at Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital in 1995.

Dr. Standaert serves as director of the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the Department of Neurology, director of the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Advanced Center for Parkinson Research, and director of the UAB Bachmann-Straus Dystonia and Parkinson’s Disease Center of Excellence. He sees many patients in a weekly clinic and oversees many clinical trials for new treatments in Parkinson’s disease.
Harrison Walker, MD, is an associate professor of neurology and medical director for Surgical Movement Disorders at the University of Alabama – Birmingham.
He attended medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he participated in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholars Program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Following medical school, Dr. Walker pursued his neurology residency and movement disorders fellowship training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
He is a member of the American Neurological Association, Movement Disorders Society and Society for Neuroscience.
Drs. Standaert and Walker will present Update on Medical and Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease on Saturday, Aug. 18,  at 8:15 a.m. 
Agenda
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If you are not sure if you have paid your Alabama Academy of Neurology membership dues for 2018, please contact Charlotte Morris.
Accommodations
Hyatt Regency Birmingham - The Wynfrey Hotel
1000 Riverchase Galleria
Birmingham, AL 35244
AAN has a block of rooms reserved with room rates beginning at $117 per night. Call (800) 233-1234 and mention the Alabama Academy of Neurology 2018 Conference. The room block will close on July 27.
Exhibitors
AAN depends on support from vendors to make our conference affordable for attendees. Please share our prospectus with companies who visit your facility and invite them to be an exhibitor. Contact Meghan Martin for details.
AAN thanks the following companies for their support of our 2018 conference:
Adamas Pharmaceuticals
Akcea Therapeutics
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Gene Dx, Inc.
Novartis
Parkinsons Association of Alabama
Teva Neuroscience
UCB
Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.
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