Speakers /

Michael Grim is chairman of the Parkinson selfsupporting group Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Volker Tomantschger is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders / neurodegenerative diseases in Hermagor, Carinthia.

Prof. Peter Young is an associate professor at the University Hospital in Münster-Westphalia. He has been dealing with hereditary polyneuropathies for over 20 years. After working for many years in a managerial position at the university clinic in Münster, he is now chief physician and medical director of the Medical Park Bad Feilnbach Clinic, where he has established a focus on the rehabilitation of patients with neuromuscular diseases, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Barbara Chaloupek is a board member of CMT Austria, the interest group for patients with inherited polyneuropathy.

Dr. Reinald Brezovsky is a neurosurgeon and pain doctor. He heads the Döbling Health Center in Vienna.

Dr. Ronald Saurugg is a specialist in neurology with an additional specialty in geriatrics. His specialties are Parkinson's disease, movement disorders and dementia. He works as a senior physician at the AöKH Oberwart and as a private physician in his practice in Hartberg (Austria).

Prof. PhDr. Elisabeth Kratz MSc. ist Logopädin, Lektorin an der Donau-Universität Krems und in eigener Praxis in Wien tätig.
Sie ist spezialisiert auf Stimm- Sprech- und Sprachstörungen.

Dr. Richard Ibrahim ist Facharzt für Orthopädie für physikalische und rehabilitative Medizin. Er hat seine Praxis in München. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte ist die spezielle Therapie von chronischen Schmerzbildern (u.a.Gelenke, Wirbelsäule), sowohl konservativ als auch interventionell (Neuromodulation).

Lecturer at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna - Faculty of Psychotherapy Sciences. Work and research focus: Coping with illness through artistic-dance therapy offers for people with Parkinson's. Art therapist Master of Arts MA. Dance and movement therapist. Anthropologist Mag. Speaker / trainer for health promotion and resilience.

Works in private practice in Vienna, as well as in the health center Schloss Prugg, long-term collaboration with Parkinson Patient Association Vienna, as well as active for Caritas, Jugend am Werk, patient association groups in the field of therapeutic art therapy (dance, music and expression) with people with disabilities.

Prof. Dr. Spyros Konitsiotis is Professor of Neurology at the University of Ioannina, Greece.
Leading expert in the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease.
He was closely involved in the development of PDMonitor®.