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New
Parkinson’s
exercise
class
in
NEWPORT Just
to let you know that a new PD Challenger class started on 12th
September at Newport Village Hall, Station Rd, Newport (near Saffron
Walden). It takes place on Thursdays, 2.15-3.15pm. This will
better accommodate PwP in NW Essex, east and north Herts and the more
southerly South Cambs villages. Our
seated class at Sawston will be swapping to Wednesdays, 2.15-3pm.
If you are interested in joining this class – and those who do have
found it very useful – please contact Deb Liddington
(debliddington@btinternet.com).
Great Dunmow Active with Parkinson's
Uttlesford Physical activity group suitable
for newly diagnosed and people who wish to exercise. Every Monday 2.00 - 3.00pm
Also Online every Thursday 3.00 -
4.00pm Little Easton Village Hall, Manor
Road, Dunmow CM6 2JR Paul Goddard 07794867344 pwg.goddard@gmail.com Sawston Cambridgeshire Active
with Parkinson's Cambridgeshire SINCE LOCKDOWN the
Cambridge Branch of Parkinson's has held fortnightly Zoom Cuppa and
Cake Meetings, frequently with guest speakers.
The 23 April 21 meeting saw the
Branch's Honorary President, Professor Barker address the members and
guests.
Roger is the Professor of Clinical
Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University
of Cambridge and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He trained at Oxford
and London and undertook his clinical and research training in
Cambridge as well as the National Hospital for Neurology in London.
His research looks at neurodegenerative disorders of the nervous
system in particular Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s
disease. He combines basic research looking at novel therapies
(including cell transplants and gene therapies) to treat these
conditions with clinically based work on defining the natural history
and heterogeneity of both Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s
disease. He is the co-ordinator of the FP7 Transeuro project looking
at fetal cell grafting in patients with early PD and a founding
member of the GFORCE=PD stem cell initiative. Click the link above
for the Professor Roger Barker talk at the Cambridge Branch on 23
April 2021