{"id":3524,"date":"2026-05-07T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:11:46","slug":"ppmi-study-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/2026\/05\/07\/ppmi-study-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"PPMI Study Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>Team members (from left to right) Ray James, Dr. Marie Saint-Hilaire, Amber Payne, Abigail Desrosiers, and Dr. Katelyn Bird attended the PPMI Study Annual Meeting in New York City from May 4\u20136, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>PPMI sites span across the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As of May 5, 2026, there are 4,649 participants enrolled in PPMI Clinical, including individuals with Parkinson\u2019s disease, individuals at risk, and healthy controls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>If you are participating in the PPMI Study, be sure to sign up for myPPMI, where you can track your personal study journey, view research updates, join new study opportunities, and contribute data to help accelerate Parkinson\u2019s research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myppmi.org\/en-US\/join\"><span>Click here to sign up.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>Topics discussed at the meeting included imaging, biologics, cognition and neurobehavior, sleep, and many other areas of ongoing research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>One major update shared at the meeting was that the study name has officially changed from the \u201cParkinson\u2019s Progression Markers Initiative\u201d to the \u201cParkinson\u2019s Precision Medicine Initiative.\u201d This new name reflects the study\u2019s evolution from solely tracking disease progression to actively advancing more personalized and targeted treatments for Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The BUMC Movement Disorders team was honored with several site award recognitions during the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team members (from left to right) Ray James, Dr. Marie Saint-Hilaire, Amber Payne, Abigail Desrosiers, and Dr. Katelyn Bird attended the PPMI Study Annual Meeting in New York City from May 4\u20136, 2026. PPMI sites span across the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As of May 5, 2026, there are 4,649 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}