64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology

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Symposium

[S-31] Symposium 31

Fri. Jun 2, 2023 1:45 PM - 3:45 PM Room6 (幕張メッセ国際会議場 3F 302)

Chair:Yasuomi Ouchi(Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Department of Biofunctional Imaging, Japan),Hitoshi Shimada(Department of Functional Neurology & Neurosurgery, Center for Integrated Human Brain Science, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan)

Nominal supported by: Movement Disorder Society of Japan

[S-31-1] Clinical issues in Parkinson's Disease and Related disorders

Francisco Cardoso (The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

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Francisco Cardoso MD PhD FAAN is a Professor at the Internal Medicine Department (Neurology Service) of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is the founder and current Director of the UFMG Movement Disorders Clinic. He did a Neurology Residency at his current institution and a Movement Disorders Fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine under the supervision of Joseph Jankovic MD. He is the President of the International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Society (MDS). His main areas of research are choreas, particularly those of auto-immune origin; epidemiology of parkinsonism (he and his associates performed the first population-based study of prevalence of parkinsonism in Brazil); genetics of dystonia (one of the studies of his group led to the discovery of the DYT16 gene). He has authored more than 260 peer-reviewed papers and 122 chapters of books.

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