Information about our next regularly scheduled Connecticut Essential Tremor Support Group meeting will be announced the end of April ..stay tuned!
Please Join Us at Our April 6th Meeting!
Saturday, April 6, 2024
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut
100 Grand Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Non-motor Symptoms in Essential Tremor
presented by Maria L. Moro-de-Casillas, MD
Maria Moro-de-Casillas, MD is a Movement Disorder Specialist Neurologist with extensive training and experience. She attended medical school at Anahuac University in Mexico City, Mexico. Her Neurology Residence was at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland Ohio ..and her Movement Disorders Fellowship was at memorial hospital of Rhode Island, Brown University, RI. Dr. Moro’s current practice is with Hartford HealthCare’s Chase Family Movement Disorders Center Mystic CT office.
At this meeting, Dr. Moro will update us on recent scientific interest and findings in symptoms other than tremor in patients with essential tremor.
Inquiries are invited!
Registration is required no later than
5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3rd!
To register or request information, email Helen Moser or submit the form below:
The CT Essential Tremor Support Group is sponsored by:
Enter April 6th in Your Calendar!
Our next regular ET support group meeting is scheduled for 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 6th, at the Hospital of Central CT in New Britain. We’ll be discussing the non-motor symptoms of essential tremor that day. You won’t want to miss it!
Join us in Cheshire for our February 3rd meeting!
Saturday, February 3, 2024
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
The Association Between Essential Tremor & Parkinsonism
presented by
Movement Disorders Neurologist Elena Bortan, MD
Meeting Location:
Hartford HealthCare Movement Disorders Center Conference Room
280 South Main Street, Cheshire, CT 06410
In her presentation, Dr. Bortan will address and update us on the following questions:
- Is essential tremor predictive of Parkinson’s disease?
- What is epidemiological evidence between essential tremor and other neurodegenerative conditions?
Neurologist Elena Bortan is a movement disorders specialist with the Ayer Neuroscience Institute Chase Family Movement Disorders Center. She came to Hartford HealthCare from Middlesex Hospital, where she worked for almost a decade.
Dr. Bortan earned her medical degree from Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Romania. She completed a residency in neurology at Tufts New England Medical Center and a fellowship in movement disorders at the Lahey Clinic.
Fluent in English and Romanian, Dr. Bortan’s areas of clinical interest are movement disorders including Parkinsonism, essential tremor and others; botulinum toxin chemodenervation for dystonia blepharospasm and spasticity; deep brain stimulation; and general neurology. She is board-certified in neurology and a member of the American Academy of Neurology and The Movement Disorder Society.
Inquiries are invited!
Registration is required no later than 7:00 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 31st!
To register or request information, email Helen Moser or submit the form below:
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Save the date!
Our next regularly scheduled support group meeting is scheduled for 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 3rd. Meeting details are in the works ..but be sure to save the date by entering it into your 2024 calendar!
Please join us for our December 2nd meeting!
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Saturday, December 2, 2023
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
A Family Approach to Living Well
with Illness and Disability Management
presented by Joan Monin, PhD
Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Yale School of Public Health
Meeting Location:
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital Memorial Conference Room
540 Litchfield Street, Torrington, CT 06790
- At this meeting, Dr. Monin will talk about how care partners and care recipients influence each other’s health and well-being over time. She will also talk about interventions, programs, and activities that families or chosen families can use to live well with illness and disability.
Professor Monin’s research examines how emotional processes affect health in older adult relationships. Her research combines survey methods and laboratory experiments to understand the mechanisms (e.g. emotional contagion, cardiovascular reactivity) and moderators (gender, individual differences in attachment) involved in these processes. Currently, her research focuses on understanding how caregivers and care recipients support one another in the context of early stage dementia.
After completing her BA in Psychology at the University of Rochester, Dr. Monin received both an MS in Psychology and a PhD in Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Social and Urban Research. She has received numerous international, national, and regional professional honors and recognitions, including:
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- Xerox Award for Excellence in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Reach Award from the Xerox Foundation, University of Rochester
- Golden Key national Honor Society
- Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rochester
- Travel Award, Carnegie Mellon University, New Methods for the Analysis of Family and Dyadic Processes Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Graduate Student Small Grant Award, Carnegie Mellon University, “Anxiety Expression in Social Support Interactions”
- Herbert A. Simon Graduate Teaching Award, Carnegie Mellon University
- Early Career Award, Society for the Study of Human Development (given every 2 years to honor an early career scholar whose work has made a significant contribution to the understanding of significant and critical aspects of human development)
- Awarded Gerontological Society of America Fellow Status
- Recipient of Society for the Psychology of Women, Div. 35 of the American Psychological Association’s 2020 Florence L. Denmark Award
- Awarded Society for Experimental Social Psychology Fellow Status
- Awarded American Psychosomatic Society Fellow Status
Inquiries are invited!
Registration is required no later than
5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29th!
To register or request information, email Helen Moser or submit the form below:
The CT Essential Tremor Support Group is sponsored by:
Plan to join us on December 2nd!
Although our in-person (only) location is to be determined, we’re excited to have scheduled Joan Monin, PhD, to present at our December 2nd meeting! An Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health, Dr. Monin’s work focuses on caregiving and health and how people and families cope with health challenges like ET.
Please be sure to add our December meeting to your calendar and to stay tuned for more details.
Join us in person for our October 7th meeting!
Saturday, October 7, 2023
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
The Current State of Clinical Therapeutic Trials for Essential Tremor
presented by Duarte Machado, MD
Director of Program Excellence and Recognition
Hartford HealthCare’s Chase Family Movement Disorders Center
Meeting Location:
Hartford HealthCare Movement Disorders Center Conference Room
280 South Main Street, Cheshire, CT 06410
The objective of this presentation will be to understand the progress in research treatments for essential tremor. This will include a review of the basic science and proof of concept of therapeutics for ET, status of ongoing clinical trials, and potential future outcomes of these trials.
Dr. Duarte Machado, whom we’re fortunate to have as volunteer Medical Director for our CT Essential Tremor Support Group, is a Neurologist who specializes in Movement Disorders. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
After completing his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Dr. Machado attended the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, followed by:
- Internship: Yale-New Haven Hospital; Internal Medicine
- Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital; Neurology
- Fellowship: Yale University School of Medicine; Movement Disorders
He is a member of several Professional Organizations:
- American Neurological Association
- American Academy of Neurology
- International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
- National Physicians Alliance
- New Haven County Medical Association
Dr. Machado’s areas of interest include Ataxia, Blepharospasm, Choreas, Cognitive Disorders, Deep Brain Stimulation, Dementia, Dystonia, Essential Tremor, Facial Spasms, Gait Disorders, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, Huntington Disease, Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders, Movement Disorders, Myoclonus, Neurosciences, Parkinsonisms, Parkinson’s Disease, Restless Leg Syndrome, Spasmodic Torticollis, Spinocerebellar Ataxia, Stiff Person Syndrome, Tardive Dyskinesia, Tics and Tourette Syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, and Tremors.
Inquiries are invited!
Registration is required no later than
5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 4th!
To register or request information, email Helen Moser or submit the form below:
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Finally: Our next meeting will be held in person!!
Save the date! Our next regularly scheduled CT Essential Tremor Support Group will be held from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 7th, in Cheshire! Details will be announced as soon as our topic and speaker are confirmed.
We’ll talk about the medical management of Essential Tremor on August 5th!
Saturday, August 5, 2023
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
via Zoom
Five Important Questions in the Medical Management of ET
presented by Ana Vives-Rodriguez, MD
Movement Disorders and Cognitive-Behavioral Neurologist, Yale
Medicine Assistant Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine
At this meeting Dr. Vives-Rodriguez will review essential questions such as:
- when to start treatment,
- medications available,
- treatment expectations,
- alternative therapies, and
- when to start thinking about surgical options.
Dr. Vives-Rodriguez is a movement disorders and cognitive-behavioral neurologist at Yale Medicine. She cares for patients with various movement disorders such as essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease, tics, and dystonia. She also specializes in treating patients with memory and other cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal dementias.
Dr. Vives-Rodriguez grew up and completed her medical and residency training in Costa Rica, graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of Costa Rica. She spent time prior to her fellowship as an attending physician in neurology at the Max Peralta Hospital in Cartago, Costa Rica. In 2018, she completed a 2-year subspecialty training in movement disorders at Yale New Haven Hospital. After her fellowship at Yale and motivated by a further understanding of neurodegenerative disorders, she pursued training in cognitive behavioral neurology in Boston.
She then completed 3 years of subspecialty training in cognitive behavioral neurology at Boston University/VA Medical Center. During her training, Dr. Vives-Rodriguez focused on translational and clinical neuroscience research of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, Wilson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease focusing on structural and functional brain changes and their relation to clinical manifestations.
Dr. Vives-Rodriguez is particularly interested in the behavioral and cognitive aspects of movement disorders and early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders.
Inquiries are invited! Registration is required
no later than noon on Wednesday, August 2nd!
To register or request information, email Helen Moser or submit the form below:
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