2025 APDA Iowa Parkinson’s Conference
The APDA Iowa Parkinson’s Conference is designed to empower you. Incorporate the tips and tricks you learn today to improve your everyday life. Feel encouraged and optimistic about the future while gaining valuable skills to support your current journey.

Conference Schedule:
- Registration/Vendors
- Welcome -Shelly Charter Executive Director APDA Iowa & EMCEE: Todd Magel
- Leslie Chambers, MSPH, President & CEO American Parkinson Disease Association
- Keynote: Laughing at Tigers– Carole Deyoe RPh A little laughter is good medicine – and a lot of laughter can be a contagious cure!
- Keynote: Exercise to Reduce PD Symptoms – Daniel Corcos PhD
- Break/Vendors/Exhibits/Workshops
Breakout Sessions- FAQ, Ask the Doc: Keith Kohout MD
- Fueling the Fight: Nutrition Strategies to Support Parkinson’s Symptoms and Enhance Well-Being – Jessica Schroeder RDN LD
- Improving Outcomes through Rehabilitation Therapy -Jillian Jones DPD
- Finding Local Area Education and Resources – Leah Brooke MS, RDN, LD and Crystal Doig
- Exercise Options – Boxing and Dance – Brandon Brockshus and Brenda Tubelo Pereira de Mattos
- Lunch, Vendors, Exhibits, and optional Lunch Meet Up – Young Onset, DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation), Other Parkinson like diagnosis’-MSA (Multiple System Atrophy) PSP Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, or Lewy Body
- Breakout Sessions
- Care Partners Support – Lynhon Stout MSW and Valerie Stickel Diehl RN MS
- DBS, Is it right for me? –Jeremy Greenlee MD
- Parkinson’s Disease and the Road Ahead: Addressing Challenges and Solutions to Driving – Kelsee Hove OTD and Michelle Flora, COTA, CBIS
- Cognitive Fitness: More than Crossword Puzzles – Cassie Serrata MS-CCC-SLP
- Exercise Options – Yoga and Tai Chi – Brandon Brockshus and Brenda Tubelo Pereira de Mattos
- Break/Vendors/Exhibits/Workshops
- Keynote: The Gut-Brain Connection in PD –Richard Manfready MD
- Keynote: The Latest PD Treatments – Lynn Struck MD
- Closing Announcements/ Thank You with Shelly Charter and Todd Magel
Note: All 4 Keynote Sessions will be recorded and available on our website after the conference.