BeautifulDay
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The UMDF (United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation) Northeast Regional Symposium will be next Friday and Saturday. Friday is for CPE for doctors, researchers, nurses .... Saturday is for family members.
https://www.umdf.org/event/umdf-northeast-regional-symposium/
Schedules below. Private message me if you are going. I'd love to meet others from PR.
Clinical Session Schedule
Friday, October 13, 2017
7:00 am-8:00 am Continental Breakfast and Registration Sign-in
7:45 am-8:00 am Welcome
Bruce H. Cohen, MD, Course Chair
8:00 am- 9:00 am Akron Children’s Hospital Grand Rounds – Mitochondria and Autism –The Story of a New Discovery and its Journey from the Bedside, to the Bench, and back to the Bedside
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD
9:15 am- 10:15 am Mitochondrial Disease Primer
Amy Goldstein, MD
10:15 am- 10:30 am Break
10:30 am-11:30 am Screening and Evaluation of Mitochondrial Disorders
Sumit Parikh, MD
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Current Treatments and Therapies
Amel Karaa, MD
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Exercise Testing in Mitochondrial Disorder – Unmasking the Defect
Rajeev Bhatia, MD
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Special Topic – Diagnostic Approaches and Genetic Etiologies for Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (PDC) Deficiency with Implications for Clinical Management and Therapeutic Interventions
Jirair K. Bedoyan, MD, PhD
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Special Topic – What is the State of Functional Mitochondrial Testing…
Charles Hoppel, MD
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Clinical Trials and Clinical Trial Results
Bruce Cohen, MD
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Mitochondrial Medicine Society and Practice Patterns and the UMDF Roadmap
Sumit Parikh, MD and Amy Goldstein, MD
5:00 pm – 5:10 p.m. Closing and Adjournment
Family/Patient Session Schedule
Saturday, October 14, 2017
8:30 am-10:00 am Continental Breakfast, Networking Time, and Registration Sign-in
10:00am-10:30am Welcome and Introductions
10:30am-11:30am Mitochondrial Disease: What is It and What to Expect?
Amy Goldstein, MD
11:30am-11:45am Break
11:45am-12:15pm Screening and Evaluation in Mitochondrial Disorders
Sumit Parikh, MD
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Box Lunch with Question and Answers – All speakers and local mitochondrial specialists
2:00pm-3:00pm Current Therapies in the Treatment of Mitochondrial Diseases
Amel Karaa, MD and Bruce Cohen, MD
3:00pm-4:00pm UMDF Closing and Networking Time
4:00pm Adjourn
https://www.umdf.org/event/umdf-northeast-regional-symposium/
Schedules below. Private message me if you are going. I'd love to meet others from PR.
Clinical Session Schedule
Friday, October 13, 2017
7:00 am-8:00 am Continental Breakfast and Registration Sign-in
7:45 am-8:00 am Welcome
Bruce H. Cohen, MD, Course Chair
8:00 am- 9:00 am Akron Children’s Hospital Grand Rounds – Mitochondria and Autism –The Story of a New Discovery and its Journey from the Bedside, to the Bench, and back to the Bedside
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD
9:15 am- 10:15 am Mitochondrial Disease Primer
Amy Goldstein, MD
10:15 am- 10:30 am Break
10:30 am-11:30 am Screening and Evaluation of Mitochondrial Disorders
Sumit Parikh, MD
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Current Treatments and Therapies
Amel Karaa, MD
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Exercise Testing in Mitochondrial Disorder – Unmasking the Defect
Rajeev Bhatia, MD
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Special Topic – Diagnostic Approaches and Genetic Etiologies for Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (PDC) Deficiency with Implications for Clinical Management and Therapeutic Interventions
Jirair K. Bedoyan, MD, PhD
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Special Topic – What is the State of Functional Mitochondrial Testing…
Charles Hoppel, MD
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Clinical Trials and Clinical Trial Results
Bruce Cohen, MD
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Mitochondrial Medicine Society and Practice Patterns and the UMDF Roadmap
Sumit Parikh, MD and Amy Goldstein, MD
5:00 pm – 5:10 p.m. Closing and Adjournment
Family/Patient Session Schedule
Saturday, October 14, 2017
8:30 am-10:00 am Continental Breakfast, Networking Time, and Registration Sign-in
10:00am-10:30am Welcome and Introductions
10:30am-11:30am Mitochondrial Disease: What is It and What to Expect?
Amy Goldstein, MD
11:30am-11:45am Break
11:45am-12:15pm Screening and Evaluation in Mitochondrial Disorders
Sumit Parikh, MD
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Box Lunch with Question and Answers – All speakers and local mitochondrial specialists
2:00pm-3:00pm Current Therapies in the Treatment of Mitochondrial Diseases
Amel Karaa, MD and Bruce Cohen, MD
3:00pm-4:00pm UMDF Closing and Networking Time
4:00pm Adjourn