PARKINSON'S DISEASE
How To Optimise ON-OFF Periods during L-dopa Therapy

Authors

Lucille Leader Dip ION FBANT CNHC Registered

www.lucilleleader.com

Lucille Leader is an international Award Winning registered Nutritional Therapist. She has been awarded “The Quality of Life Award for Functional Health in Parkinson’s” in the USA and “The Outstanding Practice Award” as well as “The Highly Commended Outstanding Practice Award” in the UK.

Her experience has included holding the positions of Nutrition Director of The Parkinson's Disease Integrated Nutrition Clinic in London UK as well as Nutrition Director of The London Pain Relief and Nutritional Support Clinic, based at that time at Highgate Hospital in London.

Dr Geoffrey Leader, Medical Director of these clinics, was an early pioneer in the integrated, team approach to the management of chronic illness, with a special interest in the management of Parkinson’s Disease.

Lucille Leader is particularly interested in biochemically-based, personalised nutritional support in chronic illness, with a special interest in neurodegenerative disease, especially Parkinson’s Disease. Her nutritional management programs are based on the biochemical individuality of those with chronic illness.

Authorships and Journal Publications: She is the Author, Co-author and Editor of 6 successful books on Parkinson’s Disease and Medical Collaboration for Nutritional Therapists.

Lucille Leader has been published in medical, para-medical, nutritional and health support journals including the European Parkinson’s Disease Association (EPDA), The Motor Disorders Journal, The EPNN (Nurses) Journal and that of The Parkinson’s Society of the Czech Republic.

Lectureships: She has lectured on University accredited BSc and MSc courses on Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Medical Collaboration for Nutritional Therapists at Westminster University, CNELM, BANT, Institute for Optimum Nutrition and The British Society for Environmental Medicine, in the UK.

She has delivered many lectures on the nutritional aspects in Parkinson’s Disease to Parkinson’s Disease Support Groups in The United Kingdom, South Africa, Austria, Croatia and the United States of America.

She has been interviewed by the BBC and SABC Radios.

Parkinson’s Disease Congress presentations include:
The World Parkinson’s Congress in Scotland, Meeting of the Minds Congress in the USA, The Parkinson’s Disease Congress for Nutrition and Sexuality in Vienna, The European Parkinson’s Disease (EPDA) Congresses in Italy, Portugal and Croatia and in London,UK.

Awards
Lucille Leader has been honoured with a PRO “Quality of Life Award for Parkinson’s” in The United States and the CAM (IHCAN) “Outstanding Practice Award” and the “Highly Commended Outstanding Practice Award” in the UK.

Memberships
Lucille Leader is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine in London, UK and is Council Member of its Food and Health Council, a Fellow of The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) and a Member of the British Association of Ecological Medicine (BSEM). She has CNHC registration.

Dr Geoffrey Leader MB ChB FRCA Dip ION

Email: [email protected]

Dr Geoffrey Leader, a graduate of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in London, is a Consultant Anaesthetist and was Medical Director of The Parkinson’s Disease Integrated Nutrition Clinic in London UK and The London Pain Relief and Nutritional Support Clinic, based at The Highgate Hospital. He also has a qualification in Nutritional Therapy.

He was awarded “The Quality of Life Award for Functional Health in Parkinson’s” in the USA.

Dr Geoffrey Leader, the clinics’ Medical Director, was an early pioneer in the integrated, team approach to the management of chronic illness, with a special interest in the management of Parkinson’s Disease.

He has held positions as Academic Head of Departments of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Clinics at University Hospitals in the UK, The Netherlands and South Africa.

He is co-author and editor of successful books on Parkinson’s Disease, has publications in peer reviewed medical journals and has presented lectures and tutorials.

Lectures
He has presented papers on anaesthetic subjects at international congresses and has published in prestigious anaesthetic journals including Anaesthesia and Dutch anaesthetic journals. His Parkinson’s Disease Congress presentations include:

• "The Intravenous Aspects of Nutritional Support in Parkinson’s Disease" at the Parkinson’s Disease Congress for Nutrition and Sexuality in Vienna.


• "Nutritional Therapy and Cellular Environment in Parkinson’s Disease"at the ground-breaking Parkinson’s symposium “Meeting of the Minds” in the United States.


• "Specialised Nutritional Management in Parkinson’s Disease"at the 5th Multi-disciplinary Conference of the European Parkinson’s Disease Association (EPDA) in Portugal. He was honoured in the United States with a "Quality of Life Award for Parkinson’s."

Memberships

Dr Geoffrey Leader is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Anaesthetists and The Royal Society of Medicine in the United Kingdom.