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SPONSORED BY THE MSA COALITION

Chairs: Eduardo Benarroch & Horacio Kaufmann
Room: Coronado AB

9:30-10:00 AM
Invited Expert Speaker Update on recognition and course modifying treatment of MSA
Phillip A. Low, M.D.
Rochester, MN, USA

10:00-10:15 AM
Don Summers Memorial Multiple System Atrophy Travel Award
Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in autopsy-confirmed multiple system atrophy: predictors of bad and good outcome
E. Vichayanrat, E. De Plabo-Fernandez, F. Valerio-Silva, L. Watson, J. Navarro-Otano, J.L. Holton, N.P. Quinn, C.J. Mathias, V. Iodice
London, UK

10:15-10:30 AM
Don Summers Memorial Multiple System Atrophy Travel Award
Circadian blood pressure control in afferent versus efferent lesions in the arterial baroreflex
J. de Jong, L. Norcliffe-Kaufmann, J.-A. Palma, W. Wieling, H.Kaufmann
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10:30-10:45 AM
Decreased L-aromatic-amino-acid decarboxylase activity and vesicular storage contribute to putamen dopamine depletion in Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy
D.S. Goldstein, P. Sullivan, Y. Jinsmaa, C. Holmes, D.C. Mash, I.J. Kopin, Y. Sharabi
Bethesda, MD, USA

10:45-11:00 AM
Spinal fluid biomarkers for multiple system atrophy – a pilot study
W. Singer, A. Schmeichel, D.M. Goldstein, J.D. Schmelzer, A.D. Zeller, T.L. Gehrking, P.A. Low
Rochester, MN, USA