Interviews
Hundreds of conversations with warriors, caregivers, researchers and advocates from around the world.
Paul Dennison: Humour, Heart and Hope Life in Rhyme
Hi, I'm Paul 60-year-old male, from Torquay UK, recently retired through ill health although remain active, married to Sharon 25 years this month. I…
June 21, 2025
Paula Abola, MSc: Hope in Motion: A Granddaughter’s Mission to Transform Parkinson’s Care
I’m Paula, a clinical researcher and an academic currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical Research. My focus is Parkinson’s Disease, both from a scientific…
June 17, 2025
Joan Miravite: Advocating for Optimizing Outcomes for Patients with PD
Joan Miravite, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP is a practicing Nurse Practitioner with over 24 years of experience working in Neurology, specializing in Movement…
May 9, 2025
Shawn Dunahue: The Fight We Didn’t Choose: Advocating for Those Living With Parkinson’s.
Shawn Dunahue is a seasoned sales and revenue operations advisor with over 30 years of experience helping businesses grow through strategic leadership, process optimization,…
May 5, 2025
Margarita Makoutonina: My Life Is A Journey For Empowering Others
Margarita and Svetlana Makoutonina are the founding directors of ParkiLife Australia Pty Ltd, World Parkinson Coalition’s organizational partner. Margarita Makoutonina is an Occupational Therapist…
April 30, 2025
Colleen Bridges M.Ed, NSCA-CPT, Parkinson’s Disease Fitness Specialist, 2020 Medfit Education Foundation
Professional of the Year, Belmont University Occupational Therapy advisory board member, two Rock Steady Boxing affiliates and the owner/head coach of Bridges for Parkinson's…
April 28, 2025
Shan Havins: Rewriting the Rules: Parkinson’s, AI, and the Power of Showing Up.
Shan Havins is a researcher, founder, former national lab leader, wife, mother, athlete, and advocate living with young onset Parkinson's disease. Diagnosed in 2023,…
April 28, 2025
Survani Sinha: A Way Forward with NeuroSpiral
Survani Sinha: A Way Forward with NeuroSpiral: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Parkinson’s Diagnosis Please tell me a little about your background. I’m…
April 10, 2025
Team Foxflow & Shelley Gilbert: Exercise is my Medicine
Shelley Gilbert: Being diagnosed with Parkinson’s at age 60, an otherwise healthy and fit 60-year-old, was certainly a big blow. I remembered watching my…
April 2, 2025
Max Tomlinson, Naturopathic Functional Medicine
I am Max Tomlinson, a naturopathic functional medicine practitioner, clinical nutritionist, and medical herbalist with over 38 years of experience. My career has been…
March 6, 2025
Peggy Faber: Dream. Believe. Achieve. Succeed
I have always been an active person and ran my first marathon in 1996 with the hope of qualifying for the Boston Marathon. Several…
February 16, 2025
Justin Jones: Indie Filmmaker Aims to Raise Awareness through Upcoming Parkinson’s Documentary
With 13 years of finance experience in the entertainment industry, I have worked on projects for Netflix, HBO, Apple, Animal Planet, and more. I…
February 14, 2025
Ileen McFarland: A Journey into the Unknown.
I was born and lived in Washington, D.C. until the middle 1950’s when we moved to the suburbs of Maryland. I come from a…
January 28, 2025
Lisa Chalker: One Face of Parkinson’s
My name is Lisa Vullo Chalker, and I am the author and advocate known as: “One Face of Parkinson’s.” I moved to Daytona Beach…
January 24, 2025
Angela Williams: Advocacy
I’ve been married going on 18 years to my husband Brant. We have 2 children, our daughter who is in college and our son…
January 14, 2025
Ronald Thomas: Never give up. Never ever give up. And never, ever, ever give up!
I was born, raised, worked, and have lived in the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area just about all of my life. I am of Polish…
January 10, 2025
Jennifer Adrissi, MD, MSCR -Movement Disorder Neurologist – UCLA Health
My name is Jennifer Adrissi, and I am a Movement Disorders Neurologist at UCLA. I am originally an east coast girl from Prince George’s…
January 7, 2025
Monique Bosman, World Parkinson Ambassador: A VIPP (Very Impatient Person with Parkinson’s)
Please tell me a little about your background. My profession was mainly software testing. I loved working in a team with young people and…
January 2, 2025