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Welcome to the Bristol and District branch of Parkinson's UK
Welcome
Welcome
The next branch meeting is on Saturday 5th September at our new venue - the Vassall Centre, Gill Avenue, BS16 2QQ.
This meeting will start with a social at 10:30 a.m, with tea and coffee available as usual and the meeting will finish before 12:30 p.m. We have an excellent line up as shown below with a special invitation to visit laboratories at Bristol University . We look forward to seeing you there.
11.00-11.10 Dick Denton FRS, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry. Introduction (and how some of his findings made more than 50 years ago may still be relevant).
11.10 -11.25 Professor Ian Collinson. “The ins and outs of a protein called PINK”
11.25-11.30 Questions
11.30-11.45 Professor Jon lane. “Tackling mitochondrial stress in Parkinson’s”.
11.45-11.50 Questions and invitation to visit the two speaker's laboratories in the Biomedical Sciences Building
Jon and Ian will explain how their research groups are using a range of powerful modern techniques to better understand the architecture and function of the centres of energy production (mitochondria) of the neurons of the mid-brain substantia nigra and the wider consequences of neuronal cell death in PD.
The meeting will end at 12.30pm
A new group for South Bristol
A new group for South Bristol
PROPOSAL FOR A BRISTOL-BASED PRODUODOPA SUPPORT GROUP
This is a message from Prof Denton - if you are interested please email him or Pat Hinton directly on r.denton@bristol.ac.uk or pathine16@gmail.com
"We have in mind to set up an informal group of those who use the Produodopa (PDD) Pump, together with our carers and clinicians. There is much we could learn by sharing experiences of this novel treatment and, in this way, provide some further support for each other.
We suggest a monthly, day-time meeting, if possible at the Bristol Brain Centre with video link by Teams or Zoom for those who find it difficult to attend in person. Meetings may have a focus on a topic of general concern but there would be ample opportunity and time to raise any general issue or specific problem related to the use of the PDD Pump.
If you, as a patient on thePDD Pump or as a carer of a PDD Pump user, are keen to see a Produodopa pump support group set up, please contact us by email, as soon as possible. We need to know the level of enthusiasm for the Support Group and welcome suggestions on how the group should be organized.
Dick Denton (r.denton@bristol.ac.uk) Dick has 10 months experience of the PDD pump - he was one of the first individuals in SW England to be fitted with the pump.
Mrs Pat Hine (pathine16@gmail.com). Pat has four months experience of the PDD pump."
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