The 2025 Fall Parkinson’s Conference brings together experts, educators, and advocates for a day dedicated to advancing knowledge, promoting wellness, and supporting those affected by Parkinson’s. This year’s event features four impactful sessions, each offering practical insights and evidence-based strategies to help individuals live well with Parkinson’s.
Designed for individuals with Parkinson’s, care partners, and healthcare professionals, the conference covers a range of topics from innovative research to exercise, therapy, and lived experience.
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Presenters
Katie Yeandle
KATIE YEANDLE is a Registered Kinesiologist and the owner of Achieving Motion. She helps the young-at-heart, including people with Parkinson’s, feel stronger and sharper so they can add years to their life and life to their years.
Katie’s fascination with the nervous system led to her taking continuing education that dove into the effects of exercise on cognition and neuroplasticity.
She brings this knowledge into her practice where she specializes in two areas. The first being improving brain health and reducing the risk of dementia, and the second being managing the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
When she’s not working, she enjoys hiking, camping, baseball, and playing piano.
Dr. Soania Mathur
DR. SOANIA MATHUR is a family physician living outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada who resigned her clinical practice twelve years following her diagnosis of Young Onset Parkinson’s disease at age 28. Now she is a dedicated speaker, writer, educator, and Parkinson’s advocate. Her platform, UnshakeableMD (www.unshakeablemd.com) serves as a resource for patient education as well as an outlet for her personal experiences with this disease.
Dr. Mathur is an active speaker in Canada and internationally, serves on committees and boards for several organizations and has authored several published papers and online pieces that focus on patient education, empowerment, and the vital importance of involving patients in all areas of clinical research.
Dr. Stephen Pasternak
DR. STEPHEN PASTERNAK MD/PhD is a Cognitive Neurologist, specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease and a Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute. His laboratory at Robarts focuses basic biology of neurodegenerative disease and on pre-clinical applications of this work. He uses advanced live cell microscopy to study lysosomes, which are normally considered to be the cells digestive compartment, but which also appear to generate and secrete beta-amyloid, the toxic protein which deposits in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease.
Preclinical projects focus on using lysosomal biology to develop blood tests for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lewy Body dementia, and on developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases based in enhancing lysosomal clearance of abnormal proteins.
Tim Ringgold
TIM RIGGOLD is a board certified music therapist, author, and award winning international speaker, having shared the stage with some of the top minds in music, the brain, and personal development, including Tony Robbins. Tim was also the first person to give a TEDx talk on music therapy in 2012.
