Dystonia Support & Advocacy Group of San Diego County

DATE: SATURDAY, 9/12/26

TIME: 1-3:00 P.M. PACIFIC TIME

TOPIC: “DYSTONIA UPDATE 2026 – TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES AND MY DYSTONIA”

GUEST PRESENTER: ZOLTAN MARI, MD, FAAN who is the Ruvo Family Chair & Director of the Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Program at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University.

Persons with ALL forms of dystonia, their family members and friends are invited to join us. 
Dr. Mari is the immediate past Chair of the Movement Disorder Society’s Telemedicine Study Group, Chair of the Parkinson Study Group’s Motor Working Group, and Associate Editor of the Parkinsonism and Related Disorders journal. Previously at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Mari was the director of the movement disorder clinical fellowship training program, the DBS Center, the Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence, the Dystonia Center, and the Parkinson’s & Movement Disorder Center.  Since his 2017 transition to the Ruvo Center, Dr. Mari helped establish the Movement Disorder Clinical Fellowship program, which he directs.  Dr. Mari also directs the CurePSP’s Center of Care and Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence there – all first and only in the state of Nevada. Recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Mari authored 160 peer-reviewed papers, several book chapters, and patents.  He has served as PI or AI on dozens of studies in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, including the highest enrolling PI in TEMPO1 (tavapdon) in the United States. 

Please contact Martha Murphy at mmurphy582@gmail.com for the Zoom log-in instructions. We hope that you can join us! 

Group website: www.dystoniaofsandiego.com 

Group Facebook: www.facebook.com/dystoniaofsandiego

Martha Murphy
Leader/Founder, Dystonia Support & Advocacy Group of San Diego County
DMRF Pacific/Northwest Regional Coordinator
DMRF Information Coordinator & Brain Bank Liaison
E-mail: mmurphy582@gmail.com
Group website: www.dystoniaofsandiego.com

Group Facebook: www.facebook.com/dystoniaofsandiego 
DMRF website: www.dystonia-foundation.org
Dysphonia International website: www.dysphonia.org