DBS-Philippines

University of Florida doctors talk with a Parkinson’s disease patient (visible far right on screen) and her husband via an Internet telephone connection to the Philippines on Thursday, Aug. 23 at UF’s McKnight Brain Institute. The patient was virtually paralyzed until neurologists in the Philippines activated her deep brain stimulator under the direction of UF Movement Disorders Center physicians (from left) Michael Okun, Hubert Fernandez, Kelly Foote and Ramon Rodriguez. (Photo by Sarah Kiewel/University of Florida)