Name: Dr Kathrin LaFaver

Specialty: Neurology

Location: Director of the Movement Disorders Clinic and Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Louisville

Research:  Yes

About:

Dr. LaFaver is the Director of the Movement Disorders Clinic and Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Louisville. She completed a Neurology Residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and Movement disorder fellowships at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. She has a longstanding interest in functional movement disorders and originally established a multidisciplinary FMD clinic and an inpatient motor retraining (MoRe) rehabilitation program at Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, KY.

Name: Dr David Perez

Specialty:Neurology & Neuropsychiatry

Location: Director of Massachusetts General Hospital FND Clinic

Research:  Yes

About:

Dr. Perez is the director of the Functional Neurological Disorders Clinic at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Perez provides specialized, integrated neurologic and psychiatric consultations for patients with FND. Dr. Perez is also the director of the MGH Functional Neurology Research Group, which is dedicated to the comprehensive clinical and neurobiological investigation of motor Functional Neurological Disorders. Dr. Perez is board certified in Neurology, Psychiatry and the subspecialty of Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry.

Name: Professor Jon Stone

Name: Dr Timothy Nicholson

Location:   London, Maudsley & King’s College Hospitals

Research:  Yes

About:

Dr Timothy Nicholson is a Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience and a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Maudsley & King’s College Hospitals. He is an active researcher and is dedicated to searching for better treatments for FND.

Time:  Friday April 12th

Pacific 1:30 pm

Eastern 4:30 pm

UK.       9:30pm

Perth AU  4:30 am Saturday

Sydney AU 6;30 am Saturday

Name: Dr Mohamed Gheis

Location:   Victoria British Columbia, Canada

Research:  No

About:

Mohamed Gheis is a Neuropsychiatrist and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. He received postgraduate training in Psychiatry, neuropsychiatry and  Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies, and pursued neuropsychiatry as a career since 2003. Prior to that, Mohamed completed post-graduate qualifications in Business Administration and in Epidemiology. He is passionate about FND treatment. He recently retired from busy hospital practice in general neuropsychiatry to work with patients with FND in the community.