Interviews
Hundreds of conversations with warriors, caregivers, researchers and advocates from around the world.
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
Ripley Fricano, Nursing & the People with Parkinson’s Advisory Council
Ripley Fricano, Nursing & the People with Parkinson’s Advisory Council (PPAC), Parkinson’s Foundation on December 31, 2024. Please tell me a little about your…
December 31, 2024
Lisa Tataryn: Empowering Parkinson’s Patients: Neurofeedback Technology as a Tool for Change
As a teenager, I watched my mother find relief from dystonia through biofeedback, inspiring me to pursue neuroscience and discover neurofeedback’s potential for movement…
December 28, 2024
Nancy Poland Advocating for Parkinson’s Patients and Caregivers.
With grace and hope, Nancy Poland provides written and spoken communication on caregiving, loss, and other valuable topics. A life-long resident of the Twin…
December 7, 2024
Herb Lair: Finding Your Happy Place
Founded a technology company in the Ozarks and took cable TV billing and management software system nationally and globally to over. 50 countries Please…
November 20, 2024
Sharon Hampton: Making Parkinson’s My Partner
I’m originally from Ireland and moved to Australia when I was 11. I live with my partner, and I have 4 dogs and 3…
November 4, 2024