Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center

Center in the News

• 07/21/2022 - VCU PMDC awarded a 2022 Parkinson's Foundation Community Grant

• 06/30/2022 - VCU designated a Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence

• 04/14/2022 - William & Mary, VCU partnership using technology to treat Parkinson's symptom enters next phase

• 11/17/2021 - Project seeks to improve access, services around Alzheimer’s for Richmond-area older adults

• 10/26/2021 - W&M and VCU Team Up to Fight Parkinson’s Disease

• 10/07/2021 - Interdisciplinary research team treating Parkinson’s symptoms with artificial intelligence

• 09/24/2021 - Stronger together: Bemiss chair embraces a legacy of community collaboration to support Parkinson’s patients

• 09/13/2021 - Three VCU researchers receive pilot grants for movement disorders research

• 09/01/2021 - PMDC Welcomes New Director: Dr. Brian D. Berman

• 08/16/2021 - VCU researchers are using VR ‘games’ as exercise therapy for individuals with Parkinson’s

• 07/16/2019 - This family won’t let a Parkinson’s diagnosis define them

• 07/16/2019 - Power Over Parkinson’s: How One Family Isn’t Letting a Diagnosis Define Them

• 04/02/2019 - VCU researchers are testing an in-shoe vibrating device that could improve mobility for patients with Parkinson’s

• 07/08/2017 - Charles F. Bryan Jr.: VCU and McGuire VA hospital are powerful partners for veterans - and the rest of us Richmond Time Dispatch

• 09/19/2016 - VCU Researchers Receive $1 Million Grant To Test A Diagnostic Tool For Parkinson’s Disease Community Idea Stations

• 07/01/2016 - Squirrels honor Muhammad Ali, fight Parkinson’s Augusta Free Press

• 06/18/2015 - A Parkinson's Breakthrough, Richmondmag

• 06/02/2015 - In the blink of an eye, VCU researchers detect early signs of movement disorders

• 03/21/2015 - Fighting Huntington disease

• 07/10/2014 - Bennett: Path to curing brain diseases must continue, Richmond Times Dispatch guest column

• 07/01/2014 - VCU Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center to test new therapeutic option for GI symptoms

• 06/21/2014 - Living with ALS: Looking for a cure

• 06/01/2014 - Hello, Health: Movin' & Shakin' 5K, Our Health Magazine Richmond

• 06/01/2014 - Breaking the Silence: Essential Tremors, Our Health Magazine Richmond

• 02/27/2014 - Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation and Foundation for Mitochondrial Medicine Partner to Support Novel Research for Mitochondrial-Directed Therapies

• 02/18/2014 - VCU to co-host essential tremor seminar

• 10/11/2013 - Researchers Participate in World Parkinson Congress

• 10/02/2013 - VCU Expands Parkinson's Center - WCVE's Charles Fishburne reports

• 09/23/2013 - Parkinson's & Movement Disorders Center moves into bigger space: Clinical care and translational research in one convenient location

• 08/26/2013 - Linda Ronstadt, Michael J. Fox Soften Parkinson's 'Cruel' Hand - ABC News

  Dr. James Bennett provides expert commentary

• 07/24/2013 - Bennett: Translational research is alive and well at VCU, Richmond Times Dispatch guest column

• 07/02/2013 - VCU July Faculty & Staff Features 2013 - Patricia Trimmer, PhD

• 06/21/2013 - VCU Researcher Part of National Team Investigating a Novel Drug for the Treatment of Chorea in Huntington Disease (HD)

• 05/01/2013 - Interdisciplinary Program at VCU Cares for Huntington Disease Patients

• 03/18/2013 - Researchers Identify Parkinson's Link

• 10/21/2012 - Dr. Mark Baron's eye-testing study highlighted on Fox23 News in Albany, New York

• 10/09/2012 - Dr. Mark Baron's eye-testing study highlighted on ABC12 in Flint, Michigan

• 08/06/2012 - VCU Awarded Grant from Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

• 04/27/2012 - Partners for Discovery

  Dr. Claudia Testa is awarded the Joan Massey Clinical Chair in Parkinson's Disease in the Spring 2012 Dean's Discovery Report.

• 04/27/2012 - From Discovery to Patient Care

  Dr. James Bennett is highlighted for his work in translational research in the Spring 2012 Dean's Discovery Report.

• 04/02/2012 - Researchers Study and Develop Approach to Treat Mitochondrial Disorders

• 03/20/2012 - The Brain-Makers  Is a VCU research team close to a cure for Parkinson’s disease?

• 12/20/2011 - From Discovery to Patient Care

• 09/28/2011 - New VCU Parkinson’s Center Focuses on Research, Treatments and Education Center's clinical site now open

• 09/27/2011 - VCU School of Medicine Profiles -- Leslie Cloud, MD, MSc

• 09/26/2011 - Movers and Shakers live up to their name

  The Movers and Shakers, a local Parkinson's advocacy group is recognized for their success in raising $5 million to create a comprehensive Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center at VCU.

• Spring 2011 - My Life with Parkinson's Disease

  Charles F. Bryan, Jr. describes his life after diagnosis and efforts to establish the Center in Richmond Academy of Medicine's Spring 2011 issue of Ramifications.

• 03/29/2011 - VCU’s Dr. James Bennett to Speak at RWC to Support Parkinson’s Awareness Month

  Dr. James Bennett, Center Director, speaks at Rappahannock Westminster Canterbury on the Northern Neck of Virginia.

• 09/03/2010 - Parkinson’s Center Unites Researchers, Clinicians, Patients Against Common Enemy

  Highlights and comments on the Center's development

• 10/02/2009 - VCU School of Medicine Profiles - James Bennett, MD, PhD