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CLINICAL MOVEMENT DISORDERS FELLOWSHIP (ONE YEAR FELLOWSHIP)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada CMD Fellowship
Fellow
Field of Training
Institution
Amount
Year 1
Dr. Manon Bouchard
Clinical Movement Disorders Training
Foothills Hospital, University of Calgary
$50,000
Amount
Total Award
Year 2
n/a
$50,000
The clinical fellowship will consist of one year training with Dr. Oksana Suchowersky and colleagues in the Movement Disorders Clinic at the
Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta. Approximately 80% of the time will be devoted to patient care and 20% to clinical research. Dr. Bouchard’s
goal is to acquire expertise and take leadership in the treatment and diagnosis for Parkinson’s disease and related conditions. More specifically,
Dr. Bouchard’s fellowship training will be focused on obtaining special expertise in treating Parkinson’s patients for sleep disorders as well as
working with DBS patients.
It is the overall goal of the fellowship to encourage promising young clinicians to enter into clinical training in the subspecialty of Movement
Disorders, which will include Parkinson’s disease. The purpose of this post-residency training is to provide expertise in the diagnosis and
management of Parkinson’s disease and may include other movement disorders.
CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Amount
Year 1
Fellow
Field of Training
Institution
Dr. Amitabh Gupta
Clinical Research in the area of
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)
Morton & Gloria Shulman Movement Disorder
$50,000
Clinic -Toronto Western Hospital
Amount
Total Award
Year 2
n/a
$50,000
The clinical fellowship at the Movement Disorder Centre at Toronto Western Hospital is unique in that it is one of the national referral centers for
movement disorders in Canada. Dr. Gupta will train under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Lang to better diagnose and treat a variety of movement
disorders. A great part of this training will include learning how to manage the complex clinical challenges of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and
related Parkinsonian diseases. Dr. Gupta will be intensively involved in patient care and will be able to define critical clinical questions and pursue
them with clinical research to significantly impact a patient’s quality of life. Specifically, Dr. Gupta will be studying Multiple System Atrophy (MSA).
MSA is a condition that presents similarly to PD and often is misdiagnosed as such, but has a worse prognosis and very limited therapeutic
options. Dr. Gupta’s research will seek to improve the diagnostic criteria of MSA, as well as investigate aspects of sleep-related problems and
cognitive deficits, in an effort to enhance disease understanding, patient care, and therapeutic options. In this way, the fellowship training will
strongly prepare him to be an effective clinician-researcher in a movement disorder clinic at an academic institution, providing state-of-the-art
patient care as a movement disorder specialist and conducting clinical research and medication trials to contribute to the improved patient care of
the future.
Dr. Michael Sidel
Maladaptive neuroplasticity in
Parkinson’s disease
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research –
Sir Mortimer B. Davis, Jewish General
Hospital
$50,000
$50,000
$100,000
After nearly five years of a clinically based residency, it is Dr. Sidel’s objective to move his career in movement disorder neurology toward the
eventual goal of being a clinician-researcher. In this capacity, he will be able to continue working with and treating patients with movement
disorders and Parkinson’s disease, but also apply what he has learned towards expanding the field as a whole and contribute to moving it on to
new frontiers. Dr. Sidel will be training under the supervision of Drs. Calvin Melmed, and Alexander Thiel at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical
Research as well as Dr. Anne-Louise Lafontaine at McGill University. Patients with Parkinson’s disease often have to live with abnormal
movements, largely stemming from therapeutic medications. In work done in similar movement disorders, it has been shown that there are plastic
changes that occur in the brains of patients suffering from other types of abnormal movements and postures. Through this fellowship, Dr. Sidel
will explore the nature of the mechanisms of abnormal or maladaptive plasticity that occur in the brains of patients suffering from Parkinson’s
disease. To that end, techniques such as magnetic stimulation of the brain should be able to show differences in how the brain activates motor
systems when comparing patients with Parkinson’s disease to healthy people of the same age.