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2009 Annual Education Conference Highlights
Denver, Colorado July 16 - 18, 2009
Denver Airport Marriott at Gateway Park

Speaker presentations are available for download below.

Bob McCurdy Lecture: Positive Exposure, The Spirit of Difference with Rick Guidotti
Albinism: Gene Mutations in Patients with Oculocutaneous Albinism and Associated Disorders, Murray H. Brilliant, Ph.D., Lindholm Professor of Genetics, University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center
Emerging Technology Forum: Ataluren: a new paradigm for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other genetic disorders. Julie Parsons, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Child Neurology Residency Program Director, UCSOM
Emerging Technology Forum: From developmental disorders to oncology: Clinical diagnostic applications of cytogenomic arrays in cancer, Mercedes E. Gorre, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics, Inc.
Personalized Medicine: Impact on Patients, Physicians and Genetic Counselors, Michael Murray, MD, Clinical Chief, Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Personalized Medicine, Betsy Gettig, MS, Assist. Professor, Dir. Genetic Counselor Training Program, U. of Pittsburgh
Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Parent’s Perspective, Teresa Kellerman, Founder and Former President of Prader-Willi Syndrome Arizona Association
Ethics and Genetics in the New Frontier of Personalized Medicine Dena S. Davis, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Cleveland State University); Adjunct Professor, CaseWestern Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Ethics
Bad to the Bone: Behavioral Genetics and the Nature of Evil, Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., P.E., Assoc. Prof. of Engineering, Oakland University, MI
David Sheppard Memorial Lecture: Microarray Diagnostics for Complex Disorders, Lisa G. Shaffer, Ph.D., CEO, Signature Genomic Laboratories
Panel Discussion: Prader-Willi Syndrome and Behavioral Genetics, Shawn McCandless, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University; Ken Smith, Prader-Willi Program Children's Institute, The UCLID Program at the University of Pittsburgh; Teresa Kellerman, FARS, Tucson (consumer)
Epigenetics, John Johnson, MD, Dir. Medical Genetics, Shodair Hospital and Carol Clericuzio, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, UNM, Chief, Division of Genetics/Dysmorphology, UNM
Art and Medicine - The Art of Hieronymus Bosch, Henry Claman, MD, Prof. Of Medicine & Immunology, Division of Clinical Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Lessons learned from the study of pigmentation and eye diseases, Pei-Wen Chiang, PhD; University of Colorado at Denver


 

 

 

 


 

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