Faculty

Benzi Kluger, MD, MS, FAAN Professor

Thomas Carroll, MD

Christina Vaughan, MD, MHS

Fred Marshall, MD Professor

Frederick Marshall, MD attended Swarthmore College where he studied Psychology with minors in Philosophy and Biology before getting his MD from Harvard Medical School and completing his Neurology training at the Harvard Longwood program. He moved to Rochester for an NINDS-funded Fellowship in Experimental Therapeutics of Neurodegenerative Disorders, focusing primarily on Movement Disorders and CognitiveBehavioral Neurology, and has remained there for his career. He is Professor of Neurology and Chief of the Division of Geriatric Neurology at the University of Rochester. Fred also teaches Mindful Practice – a curriculum for clinicians and medical educators combining formal and informal meditation, narrative, and appreciative interviewing to enhance the quality of our care, our caring, and our resilience.

Judy Long

Judy Long is a palliative care chaplain and educator at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where she served on two multi-site studies as chaplain with the neuropalliative care team for people living with advanced Parkinson’s Disease and related disorders. She developed and teaches a live online 8-week course in sustainable caregiving for care partners of those living with neurologic illness and a 6-week resilience course for people with neurologic illness. She contributed two chapters (Spiritual Care and Clinician SelfCare) to the book Neuropalliative Care: a guide to improving the lives of patients and families affected by neurologic disease, CJ Creutzfeldt, BM Kluger, RG Holloway – 2018, developed modules on spiritual care and clinician resilience for EPECNeurology, 2018, and co-developed a module of clinician self-care for the Parkinson’s Foundations Centers of Excellence, 2021. Rev Long also offered presentations on living well with Parkinson’s Disease for the Davis Phinney Foundation and the Parkinson’s Foundation, and on spiritual care for those living with neurologic illness for the Spiritual Care Association. She serves on the education and membership committees of the new International Neuropalliative Care Society and is excited to see the growth of this burgeoning and much needed community of neuropalliative care. Rev Long trained at the University of Maryland, Santa Clara University, and Upaya Institute, where her studies focused on caregiver resilience and her professional thesis focused on clinician resilience. She is an instructor of mindfulness-based compassion and emotional balance interventions and continues to design and deliver curricula for resilience training.

Janis Miyasaki, MD, MEd, FRCPC, FAAN

Dr. Miyasaki completed her training and movement disorders fellowship at the University of Toronto. After being on faculty for 16 years, she joined the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Currently, Janis is the Director of the Parkinson and Movement Disorders Program and the Co-Director of the Neuropalliative and Advanced Symptom Management Clinic, the Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine. She started the first neurologist-led Palliative care for Parkinson disease program in 2007. Since then, she has published broadly and spoken internationally on neuropalliative care.

Sue Oullette, Ph.D., Chaplain Neurology Supportive and Palliative Care University of Rochester

Sue E. Ouellette is a chaplain with the neurology supportive and palliative care team at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She also holds a secondary appointment there as an assistant professor in Neurology. Sue holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Kent State University as well as M.A. and M.Div. degrees. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist and an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church. Sue taught at the University of Arkansas and Northern Illinois University and chaired the School of Allied Health at the latter institution. She directed a national federally funded research center at Northern Illinois University and served as the director of research at a similar center at the University of Arkansas. Most of Sue’s research centered on improving vocational and social outcomes for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. She holds the rank of Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University, has presented internationally, and has authored numerous publications.

Disclosures

Parkinson’s Foundation adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Faculty: Thomas Carrooll, MD, Diane Cook, BA, Jori Fleisher, MD, MSCE, Julie Gissin, Kirk Hall, MBA, Alan Hall, Benzi Kluger, MD, MS, Dave Kyle, Judy Long, BCC, Frederick J. Marshall, MD, Lisa Mann, RN, BSN, MA, Heather Simpson, OTD, OTR/L, Malenna Sumrall, PhD,  Bernadette Skobjak, EdD, Christopher Tarolli, MD, Christina Vaughan, MD, MHS J  PhDLance Wilson, MSS, LSW, C-SWHC, ASW-G, and Nicole Yarab, RN, ave no relevant financial disclosures. 

Tsao-Wei Liang, MD would like to disclose he is a consultant for Abbvie Inc.; Grant/Research Supporter for Abbvie and Abbott Laboratories. 

Planning Committee:  Judy Berk, MS, PA, Thomas Carrooll, MD, PhD, Cari Friedman, LCSW, Ryan Khan, MBIV, BCC, Benzi Kluger, MD, MS, Teresa Long, MS, Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS, Lisa Warren, MHS, OTR/L, Lorie Wolfanger, MBA, and Nicole Yarab, RN, have no relevant financial disclosures. 

Content Validators: Justine Chan, MD, Jenna Iseringhausen, BSN, RN, Lynssi Shanklin, LSW, Kaydee Smith, PA-C, and Taylor E. Rush, PhD, have no relevant financial disclosures. 

Activity Director: Benzi Kluger, MD, MS, has no relevant financial disclosures

Planners: Megan Dini and Isabelle Lehner have no relevant financial disclosures.