User:Crawdaddy85719/Washington State Parkinson Disease Registry

The Washington State Parkinson Disease Registry (WPDR) was created in May 2007 to facilitate Parkinson disease research by maintaining a list of people in Washington state with Parkinson disease interested in participating in Parkinson disease research . Parkinson disease researchers request the WPDR notify its members of a research opportunity. The WPDR executive board then evaluates the requesting researcher's study protocol and notifies suitable registry members of the research opportunity.

The intent of the registry is to increase membership in high quality Parkinson disease research while reducing the time and money necessary to recruit interested subjects.

The Washington State Parkinson Disease Registry is sponsored by a group of Washington State physicians at the University of Washington Department of Neurology and Parkinson disease advocacy groups including the Washington State chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association, Northwest Collaborative Care, Northwest Parkinson's Foundation and Parkinson's Resources of Spokane.