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- Topic
- Speaker
- Moderator
- 10:00-10:30
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Falls and freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease: is wearable technology superior to questionnaire-based evaluation?
- Speaker:
Yasuyuki Okuma
- Moderator:
Chon-Haw Tsai
- Chon-Haw Tsai
- MD, PhD
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Consultant Neurologist, Division of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, China Medical University Hospital
E-mail:windymovement@gmail.com
Executive Summary:
Dr. Tsai was the attending neurologist (1990-2000) and Associate Professor (1995-2000) of the Movement Disorders Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, and the research fellow of movement disorders and electrophysiology in 1996(July to Dec.) at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, shadowed by Prof. PD Thompson. He has been a member of the Movement Disorder Society since 1997. He has published 136 refereed papers in the field of movement disorders and electrophysiology. In 2006, he was promoted to the Professor of Neurology at the China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan. In March 2019, he was elected to be the Dean of the College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taiwan. His pivotal interests are in the neurophysiology of Parkinson's disease, myoclonus, tremor, human motor control, and gait. Recently, he also extended his interest to stem cell and MR-guided focused ultrasound therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. He was the president of the Taiwan Movement Disorder Society (March 2017-March 2019) and a member of the Taiwan Clinical Neurophysiology Society Council. In addition, he was the Executive Committee member of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society-Asian Oceanian Section from 2017 to 2021. He dedicated most of his time to education, clinical service, and research on movement disorders and clinical neurophysiology.