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When Victoria Dillard, an actress and dancer who is African-American, was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at age 36, she felt isolated. Most of the people she encountered at her neurologist's office were white men over the age of 60, she says.
In 2005, at the age of 38, Dillard was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. It is the same disease that afflicts her former Spin City co-star, actor Michael J. Fox . She has since become an advocate for Parkinson's disease research and treatments.
Dec 27, 2017 · December 27, 2017 By Parkinson's Community Help. Victoria Dillard was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at age 36. After her diagnosis, her challenge was to find a new community of people she could connect with as a young, black woman with young onset PD. Playing Against Type: As a black woman with young-onset Parkinson’s disease, actress Victoria ...
- Who Are The PD Movers?
- Doctors and Researchers at Cuimc and Teachers College, Columbia University
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In the Spring of 2021, the PD Movers group was born - Doctors and researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and Teachers College, Columbia University invited a group of Black and African American individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and their caregivers to come together to develop an educational guide for Parkinson’s disease ...
Erika Adelman, LCSW, SIFI joined the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) Movement Disorders team as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Center of Excellence Coordinator for the Parkinson's Foundation, and CurePSP in August 2023. She is also the Social Work Manager for the Department of Neurology and a part-time psychotherapist withi...
In 2021, PD Movers invited a group of Black and African Amercian individuals with Parkinson’s and their care partners to develop an educational guide for Parkinson’s designed specifically for the Black and African American community. This group of “movers” includes doctors, researchers, and teachers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center (C...
Mar 14, 2021 · At age of five, she started acting for the company 'Dance Theatre of Harlem'. She is the former girlfriend of Laurence Fishburne with whom her relationship was from 1992 to 1995. At the age of 36, Dillard got diagnosed with Parkinson's disease which was announced in 2005.
Apr 30, 2022 · Victoria Dillard (Janelle Cooper) Dillard (seen here in 1998), who like Fox is living with Parkinson’s, shared the screen with Will Smith in the 2001 biopic Ali and guest-starred on...
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Feb 7, 2023 · Designed specifically for the Black and African American Parkinson’s community with an aim to inspire, educate and connect each other, the book highlights the stories of people and families living with PD, including Bernard Coley, Denise Coley, Sandra Coplin, Victoria Dillard, Lorraine Haye, Angela Huckabee, Richard Huckabee, Don Ransom and ...
