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Parkinson's disease focus of Abbie Lecture

Wednesday, 8 October 2003

Associate Professor in Medicine at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, Dr James Temlett, will give the Abbie Memorial Lecture tonight (Wednesday).

Dr Temlett's lecture is entitled Advances in Parkinson's disease: molecular mysteries of the brain.

The Abbie Memorial Lecture is one of the most prestigious medical lectures at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide. It is named after Professor Andrew Abbie, who held the positions of Elder Chair of Anatomy, and Associate Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dr Temlett has studied and worked in South Africa, England and ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. He qualified in Medicine in South Africa, and has studied Parkinson's disease in London and the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Oxford.

• WHAT: The Abbie Memorial Lecture, entitled Advances in Parkinson's disease: molecular mysteries of the brain;
• WHO: Dr James Temlett, Associate Professor in Medicine at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide;
• WHEN: Tonight (Wednesday, October 8) at 6pm.
• WHERE: Florey Lecture Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Medical School, Frome Road.

Media, and the public, are welcome to attend.

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