Derek Bandeen was recently presented with the Leader of Consequence Award at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, his alma mater

Get ready to get loud at The Bandeen Center! We are delighted to announce our partnership with Speak Out!® speech therapy, a research-based, nationally-recognized program that helps people with Parkinson's improve their speech and swallowing.

PWF Co-Founders Bonnie and Derek Bandeen joined more than 250 Parkinson's advocates at the 2025 Parkinson's Policy Forum held in Washington, D.C. in September.

In a brief introduction to its first-ever series dedicated to Parkinson’s disease, the medical journal “The Lancet” offers two startling statistics. The first: Parkinson’s prevalence “is expected to increase to 12–17 million people by 2040.”

In a major step forward for public health, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has moved to ban two highly toxic chemicals: Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Perchloroethylene (PCE).

A research team led by scientists at University College London and University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany, is getting closer to making that possibility a reality. In June, they published an article in “Nature Communications” on the subject.