The Harvey Chyette 2025 Spring Educational Forum is a free educational and networking event for people with Parkinson’s disease, their families, and their caregivers.
Saturday, April 26, 2025, Doors open at 8am
9:00am–3:00pm
Location: Manor House
7440 Mason Montgomery Rd, Mason, OH 45040
“Living Well with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease”
Dr. Andrew Duker, Professor of Neurology at The UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute will be discussing how to manage advanced therapies for the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, such as motor fluctuations, pharmacologic management, infusion systems, and deep brain stimulation.
Dr. Lalanthica Yogendran, Assistant Professor of Neurology at The UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute will talk about what palliative care provides for patients with PD, review symptoms related to patients with PD that palliative care can help treat/manage and talking advance care planning and goals of care.
Kathryn McGrew, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Gerontology and Retired Senior Research Scholar at the Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University (Ohio). She will help us consider a new way of thinking and talking about our long futures with Parkinson’s Disease. Using perspectives gathered from hundreds of research interviews as well as her own family’s experiences, Kathryn McGrew describes the care experience in later stages of aging and chronic illness. Are we ready? Most of us don’t want to imagine it, it’s uncomfortable to talk about, and we underestimate what we can do about it anyway. Dr. McGrew offers a scenario-based framework for conversations—with ourselves and with important others—to prepare for our best possible lives ahead. Related materials are provided.
Tish Hevel, CEO of The Brain Donor Project will give a zoom presentation on how this project connects potential donors with a brain bank in the NeuroBioBank, a network of brain banks that makes brain tissue available to neurologic researchers. The NeuroBioBank includes brain banks at Harvard, Mt. Sinai in New York, the University of Maryland, the University of Miami in Florida and UCLA in southern California.
Kaitlin DeJarnette, MSW, will discuss brain and body donations through The University of Cincinnati. Jennifer Fox, NP works with Trinity Aging Life Advisors. She acts as a care coordinator (private pay) to help patients and family members navigate the many aspects of a degenerative disease including going to MD visits, helping reinforce provider instructions, help schedule necessary appointments, therapies, follow up.
Presenting Sponsor
Sponsors to be announced
looking for Previous years’ Programs?
View an archived copy of previous years’ Spring Forum by clicking the links below.
2024 Spring Forum - New Developments for Research and Treatments
2023 Spring Forum - Planning For the Future
Remembering Harvey Chyette
Parkinson’s Support and Wellness is proud to announce the naming of the Annual Spring Forum after Harvey Chyette, who passed away in January 2019. According to his family, when Harvey was diagnosed with Parkinson disease in 2000 he was shocked, and at that time did not fully understand the disease. Although Harvey struggled at times, he did not surrender to the disease and was an example of courage and persistence. After his diagnosis, he developed his own accounting business, was fully involved in leadership positions with a charitable organization, attended as many Parkinson seminars as he could, regularly attended Parkinson support groups, as well as Parkinson yoga and exercise classes. He also traveled frequently with his family. Harvey remained positive and hopeful that there would be a cure. We are honored to be able to remember Harvey in this way. We are deeply appreciative for a grant from the Chyette family through the Morris Braun Foundation in Harvey’s memory that will help to fund the Spring Educational Forum for five years.