movement disorders center

From Dependent to Independent: Treatment Options for Essential Tremor & Parkinson’s Disease

Please join Dr. Drew Kern (Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Movement Disorders Neurologist) for a virtual event as he discusses the incisionless, outpatient treatment for patients diagnosed with Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s disease. Event attendees will learn how this innovative treatment can enhance and transform patients’ lives by improving hand tremor without invasive surgery.

Register now by visiting Resources.Insightec.com/Colorado.

Insightec is hosting this event but does not provide or have influence over the content of the presentation.

From Dependent to Independent: Treatment Options for Essential Tremor & Parkinson’s Disease

Please join Dr. Drew Kern (Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Movement Disorders Neurologist) for a virtual event as he discusses the incisionless, outpatient treatment for patients diagnosed with Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s disease. Event attendees will learn how this innovative treatment can enhance and transform patients’ lives by improving hand tremor without invasive surgery.

Register now by visiting Resources.Insightec.com/Colorado.

See the event flyer here.

Insightec is hosting this event but does not provide or have influence over the content of the presentation.

Parkinson’s Revolution

Parkinson’s Revolution is an indoor cycling experience that combines passion, determination, and community to generate awareness and advance the Parkinson’s Foundation’s mission toward a cure – because every 9  minutes someone is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Find out more by clicking on the flyer link below or visit their webiste: PDRevolutionCO.org.

All skill levels are welcome.

Denver 2023.RevolutionFlyer QR Code

DBS 101

From the website of Parkinson’s Association of the Rockies:

Dr. Kramer specializes in surgical treatments for movement disorders, epilepsy, and facial pain. Dr. Kramer has an interest in new applications for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and focuses his research on how to produce movement and somatosensation through the interpretation of neural signals. Join Dr. Kramer in discussing the basics of DBS, surgical treatments, and any current updates in clinical literature.

*The generous support of our sponsors makes our educational programs available; please note that this program is exclusively sponsored by Abbott and contains promotional material.

Register here for the event.

STREAMING EVENT Annual Huntington’s Disease Education Day

Join Us!

Saturday, October 29, 2022
8:.30 AM-2:00 PM

Hampden Hall at the Englewood Civic Center
1000 Englewood Pkwy, 2nd Floor, Englewood, CO 80110
This event will be presented by the HDSA Center of Excellence at the University of Colorado Movement Disorders Center and the HDSA Center of Excellence at the Rocky Mountain Movement Disorders Center, sponsored by the Movement Disorders Foundation.
We are excited to announce that our event is scheduled in person this year. We will be taking the necessary precautions to ensure our community remains safe. Please stay tuned for our COVID-19 protocol.
Thank you to our local sponsor, TEVA for supporting our event.
Ask a Question

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The 2022 Annual Huntington’s Disease Education Day is presented by the HDSA Center of Excellence at the University of Colorado and the HDSA Center of Excellence at the Rocky Mountain Movement Disorders Center.

This event is funded by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America with support from Genentech, Sage Therapeutics, Neurocrine Biosciences, and uniQure.

Find out more on our Event Page.

Annual Huntington’s Disease Education Day

Join Us!

Saturday, October 29, 2022
8:.30 AM-2:00 PM

Hampden Hall at the Englewood Civic Center
1000 Englewood Pkwy, 2nd Floor, Englewood, CO 80110
This event will be presented by the HDSA Center of Excellence at the University of Colorado Movement Disorders Center and the HDSA Center of Excellence at the Rocky Mountain Movement Disorders Center, sponsored by the Movement Disorders Foundation.
We are excited to announce that our event is scheduled in person this year. We will be taking the necessary precautions to ensure our community remains safe. Please stay tuned for our COVID-19 protocol.
Thank you to our local sponsor, TEVA for supporting our event.
Ask a Question

Do you have a question you would like to ask? Click the button to ask a question anonymously. No identifying information will be collected.

The 2022 Annual Huntington’s Disease Education Day is presented by the HDSA Center of Excellence at the University of Colorado and the HDSA Center of Excellence at the Rocky Mountain Movement Disorders Center.

This event is funded by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America with support from Genentech, Sage Therapeutics, Neurocrine Biosciences, and uniQure.

Find out more on our event page. 

Transitions

The Movement Disorders Center is growing again! A handful of providers have moved on from our center for various personal reasons, including retirement and spouses being transferred to new positions. But we are excited to welcome new faculty to our group.

The faculty and staff at the center continue to be dedicated to improving the lives of people with movement disorders.

We announced in our newsletter that Dr. Alex Baumgartner and Dr. Michael Korsmo will be graduating from our fellowship program and will be joining us as faculty in August. Both bring niched areas of expertise that will help round out our center.

Dr. Baumgartner will be joining Dr. Kern as part of our advanced therapies and deep brain stimulation (DBS) team in the operating room. In the past few years, the number of DBS surgeries performed yearly has nearly doubled. The team has recently added a new neurosurgeon and more programmers as well. Dr. Baumgartner will see patients in the clinic at the Anschutz Medical Campus and in Lone Tree.

Dr. Korsmo will be expanding our reach to underserved communities. In addition, he will be seeing patients at our main clinic on the Anschutz Medical Campus and at our Boulder clinic.

Dr. Vaughan is expanding her neuro-palliative clinic. Her clinic will now be found at the Anschutz Medical Campus. By moving her clinic, Dr. Vaughan and her patients will have access to more services and resources. Her focus will now be neuro-palliative care; the main difference is that she will not be the primary movement disorders specialist for patients. She will still serve the movement disorders community through neuro-palliative care during all stages of diseases. She will still be available to all patients for neuro-palliative care via telehealth.

For more information about neuro-palliative care, you can read our Fall 2021 newsletter.

MDC Receives Parkinson’s Foundation Award

The University of Colorado Movement Disorders Center received an award from the Parkinson’s Foundation for the Highest Team Participation for the Parkinson’s Foundation Palliative Care Education Course. The award was presented at this year’s COE Leadership Conference and was accepted by Ryan Khan, a chaplain who works closely with our Palliative Care team.

In 2020, the Parkinson’s Foundation launched an initiative to make palliative care a standard practice of care across all Centers of Excellence in the United States. The MDC received the award for being the Center of Excellence (COE) with the most team members who have completed the online Palliative Care Training.

The Movement Disorders Center is honored to receive this award in recognition to our dedication to patient care.

Dr. Forbes Accepted to Clinical Faculty Scholars Program

Congratulations to Dr. Emily Forbes on her acceptance into the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute’s (CCTSI) Clinical Faculty Scholars Program (CFSP). This program enrolls up to five junior faculty members each year. The program helps young researchers obtain grant funding for their career growth or their first independent investigator-initiated project. Often these are K-awards or R-awards which are funded by the NIH. These can also be awards from large non-profit organizations. The CCTSI trains these budding researchers through guided project development, educational seminars, grant writing classes, and mentorship participation.

Dr. Forbes’s project will build a Neurogenetics database. The first goal will be to characterize genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease in the University of Colorado’s patient population. She will follow this group over time to see how they respond to treatment based on their genetic variant. She will build this database to include phenotypic (observable characteristics) and genotypic (genetic characteristics) information across different specialties in Neurology. This will lead to a department resource for genetics research. Her long-term aim is to develop a tool to advance fair and the best genetic testing for patients. This will also help to provide thorough genetic counseling. This tool will make clinical trials for disease-modifying treatments available to more patients and quicken the rate of developing new therapies. Additionally, it will widen the availability of clinical trials to patient populations.

Other Movement faculty alumni of the CFSP program include Dr. Michelle Fullard and Dr. Samantha Holden and former movement disorders faculty, Dr. Brian Berman, and Dr. Benzi Kluger.

Being part of a medical school means that in addition to seeing patients, our faculty are also involved in additional pursuits. One of these pursuits is conducting clinical research related to their field. Most research falls into two categories: clinical trials and investigator-initiated research. Clinical trials are a type of clinical research that aims to determine the safety and effectiveness of the medication, devices, and treatment regimens. Investigator-initiated research starts with new ideas that the researcher comes up with themself. The researcher then is responsible for creating a trial to test their idea and then carrying out the trial. All research must adhere to strict rules and regulations. You can read more about the research here.