Episode 153: How People with PD Can Prepare for Routine Outpatient Procedures

Since routine outpatient procedures may pose special needs and risks for someone with Parkinson’s disease (PD), extra planning is in order for the period before, during, and after the procedure. The procedures may be medical or dental, for example, teeth cleanings, colonoscopy, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Fortunately, the Parkinson’s Foundation has developed a course that highlights key recommendations and strategies to promote optimal care and health outcomes for people with PD during planned and unplanned hospital stays, which can include inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department hospital encounters.

In this podcast episode, movement disorders neurologist Muhammad Nashatizadeh, MD of the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, a Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence, discusses how people with PD can incorporate this same safety protocol to ensure optimal outcomes when they plan for and have routine outpatient healthcare procedures.

Released: June 27, 2023

Dr. Muhammad Nashatizadeh completed his undergraduate biology degree in 1998 with highest honors as a University Scholar at Emporia State University. He completed his medical degree at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 2003, internal medicine internship in Wichita in 2004, and neurology residency in Kansas City in 2007. He served as chief resident before pursuing movement disorder fellowship training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas returning home to Kansas in 2008. He is board-certified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

Known as "Dr. Muhammad" by numerous patients, he worked as a community neurohospitalist for over six years while seeing clinic patients with movement or cognitive disorders. He returned to the University of Kansas School of Medicine as faculty in 2015 and has been the Director of Inpatient Movement Disorders since 2017. Primarily covering the inpatient consultation service, he works with emergency medicine, internal medicine, rehabilitation and surgical teams to help manage neurological problems affecting hospitalized patients. He educates geriatrics fellows, residents from neurology, internal medicine and psychiatry, and medical students to understand how medical disorders affect patients neurologically and how multiple problem layers cumulatively contribute to illness. For these efforts, he was voted as the Neurology Educator of the Year (Student Voice Award) by third year medical students for four years straight and selected as a top five finalist for the prestigious Rainbow Award in 2018-2019 honoring altruism, excellence, and professionalism.