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Hi everyone! Greetings from Loma Linda, California! My name is Hua Liu, nick name Howard. I got my medical degree back in China years ago worked as a psychiatrist for some years, and am now studying toward a PhD in pharmacology here at Loma Linda Uinversity, California. I'm now working with Dr. Robert Iacono, the neurosurgeon who did the first posteroventro-pallidotomy (PVP) in the United States, on the electrochemical aspects of Parkinson's disease. Although my work is basically research oriented, I have great sympathy and interest in patients with PD as well, not just the disease itself. Parkinson's disease in being extensively investigated at this moment all over the world and I'm happily to say that Loma Linda being one of the PD surgery/research centers. We're working on perfecting our PVP procedures and characterizing this disease clinically and electrochemically. We hope to find out the appropriate treatment for untypical PD, as we have done for patients with typical PD. I'm eagerly to learn from both patients who are suffering and from specialists from all fields. Howard