2026 Canadian Movement Disorders Society Congress

December 4 - 5, 2026

Saturday, December 5th 2026

820

Welcome Back
Lorraine Kalia

Junior Oral Presentations
Chair: Tejas Sankar

830

α-Synuclein Is Required for Multi-Lineage Differentiation and Structural Integrity of Olfactory Epithelium Organoids
Priya Suman

840

Cortical neuromodulation using a brain-machine interface to treat freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease
Arjun Balachandar

850 Latent Classes of Cognitive Decline in Parkinson Disease: MRI and Serum Biomarker Correlates
Maurice Paternak
900 Cost-Effectiveness of Integrated Multidisciplinary Neuropalliative Care for Advanced Parkinsonian Syndromes
Karla Cantu Flores
910

Q&A

Ali Rajput Lectureship
Chair: Alex Rajput

930

Ali Rajput Lectureship: A Biological Classification of Parkinson’s Disease: Status and Challenges
Anthony Lang

1015

BREAK

Developing Canadian clinical guidelines for movement disorders
Chair: Silke Cresswell

1030

Canadian guidelines for Parkinson’s disease
David Grimes

1050

Canadian guidelines for Dystonia
Davide Martino

1110

Canadian guidelines for Ataxia
Antoine Duquette

1130

Panel Discussion and Q&A

1150

LUNCH & Poster Session

Novel approaches to abnormal tone and posture
Chair: Christos Ganos

1230

Is there a role for botulinum toxin in management of paratonia?
Galit Kleiner

1300

Cryoneurolysis for pathologic muscle overactivity and presumed contracture
Paul Winston

1330

Q&A

Establishing a Canadian clinical trials network
Chair: Tiago Mestre

1345

Current clinical trial landscape for movement disorders in Canada
Nicolas Jodoin

1405

Canadian clinical trial networks: lessons from the AMMI Canada Clinical Research Network
Nick Daneman

1425

Canadian clinical trial networks: lessons from stroke
Michael Hill

1445

Panel Discussion and Q&A

1510

Evaluations & Closing Remarks
Lorraine Kalia

1530

Adjourn