Company Press Release
SOURCE: QUEST Research Institute, Inc.
Michigan Neurologists Host Open House for
National Parkinson's Awareness Month April
29, 1999
Disease Affects Millions Including Michael J. Fox,
Muhammad Ali, and Pope John Paul II
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., April 7, 1999/PRNewswire/ -- The first ever national
Parkinson's Awareness Month in April will
feature an open house for a newly relocated neuroscience center, the
opportunity to become a research volunteer,
and plenty of information about neurological disorders.
In Michigan, the awareness effort is being spearheaded by Dr. Peter
LeWitt and Dr. Richard Trosch, both
associates of the Clinical Neuroscience Center and by its research arm,
QUEST Research Institute, Inc.
The open house will be from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, April 29, at the Clinical
Neuroscience Center, 26400 W. Twelve
Mile, Suite 110, Southfield. For visitors there will be information
booths and tables on Parkinson's disease and all
other neurological conditions treated by the center.
Dr. LeWitt is president of the Michigan Parkinson Foundation. The
Foundation is dedicated to serving people with
Parkinson's and their families in Michigan.
Parkinson's disease is a common progressive neurological disorder that
results from the loss of nerve cells in a
region of the brain that controls movement. Among well-known persons who
have Parkinson's are Muhammad Ali,
Pope John Paul II, and Michael J. Fox.
QUEST Research Institute, 20877 Telegraph, Suite 103, Southfield, is the
first dedicated research center of its
kind to offer southeastern Michigan residents access to promising
medications under strict safety guidelines.
Donna Skupien, President of QUEST, explains, ``We actually partner with
the Clinical Neuroscience Center by
organizing and performing all their research. We work together so we
operate as an integrated, yet separate arm of
their practice.''
QUEST presently is accepting the names of persons who have Parkinson's
disease or family members of
Parkinson's patients. QUEST is interested in family members of
Parkinson's patients because of research it is doing
on heredity links. Volunteers who are selected benefit from access to
promising treatments, free visits, free
medication, closer coverage of their condition, and from a good feeling
of helping others. Anyone interested in
volunteering, who lives within an hour's driving distance of Southfield,
may call 248-353-3440.
--
Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada
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