Keynote speakers
mds
Dr Mandar Jog
Mandar S. Jog, MD, FRCPC, is the Director of the Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Program at London Health Sciences Centre and a Professor of Neurology at Western University, both in London, Ontario, Canada. He also is a Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering.
He trained in Neurology in Toronto and completed a fellowship in movement disorders with Dr. Anthony Lang. This was followed by a 4-year post-doctoral fellowship in Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, Massachusetts, under Dr. Ann Graybiel and a visiting professorship at Stanford Research Institute (SRI Inc.) in California.
Dr Tanya Simuni
Dr. Simuni leads a comprehensive movement disorders center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine that is recognized by the Parkinson’s Foundation, Huntington Disease Society of America and Wilson’s Foundation as a Center of Excellence and serves as a training model in the region.
She is internationally recognized expert in design and implementation of PD clinical trials focused on disease modification. She is the lead author of the new biological definition and staging framework of Neuronal Synuclein disease (NSD). She serves on the leadership team of the MJFF sponsored PPMI study, the largest PD biomarker initiative where she also serves as the Principal Investigator for the first platform trial to test therapeutics in biologically defined prodromal population (P2P).
Prof Marie Vidailhet
Marie Vidailhet is Professor of Neurology, in charge of the Movement Disorders group at the Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne Université, and of a research group (Mov’it) in the Paris Brain Institute (ICM).She is also very invested in mentorship (her group hosting trainees from several foreign countries) and in sharing knowledge and experience (as part of her missions in national and international (EAN European Academy of Neurology, MDS Movement disorders society) scientific meetings, winter and summer course (recently organized in Paris in 2025). She and her team are very motivated for collaborative studies and projects, to create friendly and creative connections.