The Stoppelmoor-Adams Stroke Education and Research Fund supports the department's mission to be a leader in stroke care. Each year a lecture is held highlighting an interesting or important aspect of stroke treatment.
The Allied Team Training for Parkinson’s conference is a semi-annual national meeting to augment education of health care providers on Parkinson’s disease and facilitate interdisciplinary care. The 2019 conference is hosted by the Department of Neurology.
William Talman, MD, Lecture on Basic Neuroscience in Clinical Neurology
Dr. William Talman retired from the University of Iowa in March 2017, after 33 years as a faculty member in the Department of Neurology. His clinical specialty was autonomic disorders. The annual “William Talman, MD, Lecture on Basic Neuroscience in Clinical Neurology” was established in 2017 in Dr. Talman’s honor through the Iowa Neuroscience Institute.
Baden Lecture
This is a lectureship that was started by Wayne Baden in 2008, in honor of his wife Kay Baden, who developed Alzheimer's disease later in life. Wayne and Kay were both born in Iowa, Wayne in Lake City, and Kay in Brooklyn, and the two met at Coe College. Wayne later attended medical school at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He was subsequently drafted into the army, and later became and OBGYN doctor and practiced in Texas for many years. The lectureship is also honored by their daughter Karen, and her husband Tom Parker.