Education Program

Summit for Stem Cell Foundation’s Education Program has a strong educational program for people with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative conditions . Our webinars provide information through webinars gives the attendee an opportunity to hear directly from “the source”. Other methods of information sharing are shared via emails, our newsletter “The Summit Sentinel”, and emails to Summit Subscribers. The program provides reliable, evidence-based information for about:

• Regenerative medicine and stem cells
• Medical and Scientific issues
• Current topics

Past featured guest speakers include:

• Peter Marks, MD, PhD, Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
• Alberto Espay, MD, MSc, FAAN, FANA 
  Professor and endowed chair of the University of Cincinnati
  James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson’s Disease
  and Movement Disorders. 
• Zubin Master, PhD
  Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics,
  Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota 
• Claire Henchcliffe, MD, DPhil
  Chair and Stanley van den Noort Professor of Neurology,
  University of California, Irvin

Past webinars are available in Summit’s Webinar Gallery.

Our Educational Program’s past sponsors include:

• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
• Aspen Neuroscience