The World Parkinson Coalition® was first formed in 2004, shortly before the 1st World Parkinson Congress, also known as the WPC 2006. The idea for the Congress came from a meeting held in 2002 in Washington, DC. Dr. Elias Zerhouni, the then head of the National Institutes of Health, asked some of the leaders in the community why a meeting inclusive of all those touched by Parkinson's did not exis
