The UMDF

Mitochondrial Disease

Conference Location

Support/Exhibit

   

 

Friday Family Session Schedule

Friday, June 18
7:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
8:00 a.m. Welcome -- Managing your Symposium Experience
   Dan Wright, Chuck Mohan and Kara Strittmatter
 
8:15 a.m. Clinical Trials in Mitochondrial Disease: Bringing Consensus to Treatment Confusion
   Gerard Vockley, MD, PhD
Current Open Trials -- Speakers to be announced.
 
8:15 a.m. AACT and Adult Gathering
 
9:30 a.m. Break
 
10:00 a.m. Latest Concepts in Mitochondrial Disease
   Gerard Vockley, MD, PhD
 
10:00 a.m.   CHILD IHP, 504 Plan and IEP - What's the Difference?
   Donna Noble
 
11:15 a.m. CHILD Palliative Care
   Sarah Friebert, MD
 
11:15 a.m. ADULT Pain Management in Adults with Mitochondrial Disease
   Steve Lobel, MD
 
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
 
2:00-4:30 Special Autism Ask the Mito Doc Panel
   Panel: Bruce Cohen, MD; Richard Haas, MB, BChir; Sarah Spence, MD, PhD;
   Roberto Tuchman, MD, FAAN, FAAP; Pauline Filipek, MD
 
2:00 p.m. ADULT Ask the Mito Doc Panel
   Panel:TBA
 
2:00 p.m. CHILD GI Issues and Dysmotility
   Richard Boles, MD
 
2:00 p.m. TEENS Teen Talk with Amy Goldstein, MD and Russell Saneto, DO, PhD (teens only)
 
3:00 p.m.    ADULT SS Disability Process and Financial Issues
   Beate Pohlig, Esq. 
 
3:00 p.m.  Providing Nutrition Support: From Oral to Enteral And IV
   Deborah Pfister, MS, RD, CNSD

3:00 p.m. TEENS Exercise and Nutrition (parents welcome)
   Mark Tarnopolsky, MD, PhD, FRCP; Joe Wise
 
4:00 p.m. Caretaker Workshop
   Lynne A. Wolfe, MS, CRNP, BC; Larry Lynch, LCSW
 
4:00 p.m. Fundraising to Support the UMDF Mission
   UMDF Staff
 
4:00 p.m. TEENS Informal Social Gathering (teens only)
 
6:00 p.m. Cash Bar Reception for Scientific and Family Attendees
 
7:00 p.m. Banquet Celebration -- Awards Ceremony and Entertainment

   

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