1. 6TH ANNUAL
Sanford
Rare Disease
Symposium
Discover.InspIre.Grow.
Feb. 26, 2016
Sanford Center
Sioux Falls, SD
Location:
sanford center
2301 e. 60th street N.
sioux Falls, sD 57104
Please park in the south lot and enter the building at
the southeast door (near the globe). see map below
for directions.
credits:
Sanford Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing
medical education for physicians.
Sanford Health designates this live activity for a maximum
of 6.0 AMA PRA Category I Credits™
. Physicians should
claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
This event has been submitted to the National Society of
Genetic Counselors (NSGC) for approval of Category 1
CEUs. The American Board of Genetic Counseling
(ABGC) accepts CEUs approved by NSGC for purposes
of recertification. Approval for the requested CEUs and
Contact Hours is currently pending.
Sanford Health Center for Learning is an approved provider
of continuing nursing education by the Washington State
Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval &
Recognition Program (CEARP), an accredited approver by
the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission
on Accreditation.
6.25 ANCC Contact Hour
N.LewisAve
E. 54th St. N.
E. 52nd St. N
N.CliffAve
E. Benson Rd
E. 57th St N.
EXIT 9
E. 60th St. N
EXIT 400
EXIT 399
Sanford Center
2301 East 60th Street,
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
Sanford Center
2301 East 60th Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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2. Discover.Inspire.Grow.
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. Event Registration/Breakfast
8:45 a.m. Welcome Address
– David Pearce, PhD
President, Sanford Research Sanford
Health Senior Scientist, Children’s Health
Research Center Professor, Department
of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota
Sanford School of Medicine
9 a.m. What the Patient Family-Physician-
Partnership Can Accomplish for Rare
Genetic Disorders: the Example of
Lowe Syndrome
– Robert Nussbaum, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Invitae Corporation
10 a.m. Assessing Gene Therapy Approached
for NPC1 Disease
– William Pavan, PhD
Director, NHGRI Intramural Training Office
11 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Complex Structural Variation in
Human Genomic Disorders
– Claudia Carvalho, PhD
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. The Nuclear Envelope and
Rare Disease
– Howard Worman, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology and
Cell Biology, College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Columbia University
2:15 p.m. Rare Genetic Obesity Disorders:
Insights for Energy Balance in the
General Population
– Joan Han, MD
Director, Pediatric Obesity Program, Le
Bonheur Children’s Hospital Associate
Professor, Division of Pediatric
Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Tennessee Health Science
Center
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Translation of Gene Therapeutics
in Neuromuscular Disease
– Brian Kaspar, PhD
Associate Professor, Nationwide Children’s
Hospital, Ohio State University
4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
About the Symposium:
You’re invited to the Sixth Annual Sanford Rare
Disease Symposium, an event organized by
the Coordination of Rare Diseases at Sanford
(CoRDS) and Sanford Children’s Health Research
Center in honor of Global Rare Disease Day
Friday, Feb. 26, 2016
Registration:
No cost to attend. Pre-registration required by
Feb. 19, 2016.
Register online at sanfordresearch.org
Keyword: Rare Disease Symposium
Questions? Email cords@sanfordhealth.org
or call (877) 658-9192.