Parkinson Disease – A Health Policty Perspective

Wayne Martin, MD, FRCPC, Movement Disorders Clinic, University of Alberta/Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta Dr. Martin received his undergraduate and medical education from the University of Alberta. After completing a neurology residency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, he obtained postgraduate research training at Washington University in St. Louis. He then returned to Vancouver to join the University of British Columbia neurology faculty as part of the movement disorders group. In 1990, he returned to the University of Alberta as a Professor in the Division of Neurology and Director of the Movement Disorders Clinic. He remains active in research with particular interests in neuroimaging and in clinical trials of new treatments in movement disorders. Oksana Suchowersky, MD FRCPC, Movement Disorders Program, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary Alberta Katharina Kovacs Burns, MSc, MHSA, PhD, Health Sciences Council, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Email: kathykovacsburns@shaw.ca Egon Jonsson, PhD, Professor, University of Alberta, School of Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta; University of Calgary, Community Health Sciences, Calgary, Alberta; Executive Director & CEO, Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alberta