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Date: |
Sunday, September 7, 2003 |
Location: |
Piccadilly Inn University -- Waldorf
Grand Ballroom |
Schedule: |
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9:00 - 10:00am |
Coffee - Mix & Mingle |
10:00 - 10:40 |
Gino Cortopassi - "Newest Developments in Friedrich's Ataxia Research" |
10:40 - 11:20 |
Daniel Geschwind - "Overview of Neurogenetics Clinic at UCLA -Services Offered & Research" |
11:20 - 12:00 |
Susan Perlman - "What is Non-Genetic Ataxia?" |
12:00 - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
1:30 - 2:10 |
Vicki Wheelock - "Fetal Stem Cell Transplants, Surgical Realities And Hopes" |
2:10 - 2:50 |
David Schaffer - "Stem Cell Research in Neurodegenerative diseases" |
3:00 - 4:00 |
When all presentations are complete they will be followed by a written question and answer period. Written questions will be taken from the Ask-It-Basket at the Literature Table. |
To read the speakers presentations, simply click on their
name. |
Speakers: |
Dr. Gino Cortopassi is a Professor at UC Davis where he teaches in the Department of Molecular Biosciences. He received his BA from Stanford in 1981 and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1988. His research general interests are in Mitochondrial dysfunction in diseases, which include Friedrich's Ataxia (FRDA). Recently he put out a publication entitled "Frataxin expression rescues mitochondrial dysfunctions in FRDA cells." He will present on the "Newest Developments in Friedrich's Ataxia Research" Dr. Daniel Geschwind
received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Yale
University School of Medicine. He completed his post
doctorate work in neurology at UCLA School of Medicine. He
has also received numerous honors including: Frontiers of
Science Award, McDonnell-Pew Foundation Award in Cognitive
Neuroscience, and Jean-Louis Riehl Award for Outstanding
Research during Neurology Residency. One of Dr. Geschwind's
research specialties is Ataxia. He will speak to us today on
"Overview of Neurogenetics Clinic at UCLA -Services Offered
& Research" Dr. Vicki
Wheelock received
her Biomedical Sciences degree from the University of
Michigan. She became an M.D. also at the University of
Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI in 1983. She is the
Director of the Movement disorders Program and Huntington
Disease Program at UC Davis Medical Center. These Programs
in addition to symptomatic treatments have a stereotactic
neurosurgery program, which provides presurgical evaluation,
deep brain stimulation and stereotaxic functional
neurosurgery, and postoperative management. The Movement
disorders Clinic serves as the Northern California's
referral system for the state funded Genetically Handicapped
Persons Program (GHPP). This clinic focuses on patients with
Friedreich's ataxia, Huntington's disease, Joseph's disease
and other genetically determined diseases. |