This year’s Edinburgh Parkinson’s Lecture took place on Tuesday 17th September 2024. The 2024 Edinburgh Parkinson’s Lecturer was Richelle Flanagan. The title of her lecture was: How nutrition and diet can help you live better with Parkinson’s.

Richelle is an Irish stateregistered Dietitian who has been practising for 18 years. She is a past President of the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute, the professional body for Dietitians in Ireland.

Richelle has coauthored two dietrelated papers on Parkinson’s and is a research partner with the Ulster University at Coleraine on a gut microbiome and Parkinson’s study. She is also part of a consortium which has applied for a Horizon Europe grant to investigate personalised diet and the microbiome in People with Parkinson’s.