Featured Artist and Speaker Dr. Juan Sanchez-Ramos
Come hear Dr. Juan Sanchez-Ramos' story of how art not only changed his life but has also saved the lives of many.
Today Dr. Sanchez-Ramos is well known as the Professor of Neurology at the University of South Florida where he holds the Helen Ellis Endowed Chair for Parkinson's Disease Research and is Director of the HDSA Center of Excellence for Huntington's Disease and Parkinson Research Foundation Center of Excellence at USF. Beyond Tampa, he is also known as the Medical Director of the Parkinson Research Foundation in Sarasota. And beyond Florida he is known as an award-winning researcher in Huntington's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and movement disorders.
But hear the story that Dr. Sanchez-Ramos has rarely told... How this Venezuela native was once known as Zeno, the painter, animator and sculptor. How he traveled through Europe as a struggling artist before landing in Chicago where he became the art editor of the Chicago Review, later leading to his return to medicine where he continues to use his artistic creativity to help and heal others.
Experience a live performance of Dr. Sanchez-Ramos' original score and animated film titled "Dancing DNA" that was awarded by the University of Chicago Materials Research Center.
As the TBBCA's 2012 Featured Artist, each Impact Award winner will also receive a limited edition Giclee print of Zeno's "Neon Neurons II," from his series created for the Parkinson's Research Foundation.
Neon Neuron II
