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Dear Listserv Members, It's a pleasure to join the Digest membership AND to have information to share, at least with residents of the San Diego area, as a first entry! On Sunday, January l9, l997, the National Parkinson Foundation, along with NPF's San Diego area Centers of Excellence (UCSD and Salk Institute) will hold their first annual patient symposium: Interventions in Parkinson disese: Medical Help and Helping Yourself. The program will run from l2:30 p.m. till around 5:00 p.m. (registration will open at ll:00 a.m.) and will include presentations by Dr. Cliff Shults, Assoc. Professor of Neurosciences at UCSD, Chief of Neurological Services at the San Diego V.A. and Co-Director of NPF's Center of Excellence; Dr. Fred Gage, Professor of the Laboratory of Genetics at Salk Institute, Co-Director of NPF's Center of Excellence and recently cited in national media for his work on the potential for using viruses as vehicles for genetic directions to regions of the brain; Dr. Deane Jacques, Director of the Neurosciences Institute at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles and Medical Director of NPF's Center at that hospital; Dr. Mickie Welsh, Coordinator for the NPF Center of Excellence at USC. Dr. Shults will present on Current and Upcoming Medical Therapies. Dr. Gage will present on Cutting Edge Research. Dr. Jacques will present on the progress of fetal tissue transplantation, pallidotomies, thalamotomies and the potential of deep brain stimulation. Dr. Welsh will present on Quality of Life. The symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency on Market Street in San Diego, with registration at $l0.00 per person and $l5.00 per couple. To register call (from inside California) 800-400-8448 or (from outside California) 800-522-8855. Hope to see lots of you there! Kim Seidman, NPF West Coast Director (Phone numbers as shown above).