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DMD Newborn Screening Symposium Agenda

September 11-12, 2012
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road, Bethesda, MD 20852

Symposium Chairs

Jerry R. Mendell, M.D.
Curran-Peters Chair in Pediatric Research Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
and Director of Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center, The Ohio State University
Director of the Center for Gene Therapy, Nationwide Children's Hospital
  

Michele A. Lloyd-Puryear, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Medical and Scientific Adviser
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)

Schedule

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
  Reception
  6:30-7 p.m  
     
  Dinner and welcome
  7 p.m. R. Rodney Howell, M.D., FAAP, FACMG, University of Miami
   
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
  Breakfast
  8-8:30 a.m.  
     
  Welcome and Goals for Meeting
  8:30-8:45 a.m. Sanjay Bidichandani, MBBS, Ph.D, Vice President — Research, MDA
     
  Significance for the Addition of DMD to the Uniform Panel
  8:45-9 a.m. R. Rodney Howell, M.D., FAAP, FACMG, University of Miami
     
  Evidence-Based Review: Description and summary of the SACHDNC process
  9-9:30 a.m. Alex Kemper, M.D., MPH, M.S., Duke University
     
  Case Example: Adding SCID to the Uniform Panel
  9:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Amy Brower, Ph.D., American College of Medical Genetics
     
  What Are We Screening? Description of DMD Disease Process
  10-10:15 a.m. Craig McDonald, M.D., University of California, Davis
     
  Newborn Screening for DMD: Summary of NBS findings in Ohio
  10:15-10:45 a.m. Jerry Mendell, M.D., Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University
     
  Break
  10:45 a.m.-11 a.m.  
     
  DMD Implementation of CK Screening: Possibilities and challenges for a state
  10:45 a.m.-11 a.m. Ram Chandrasekar, Ph.D., Ohio Department of Health
     
  Treating DMD
  11:15-11:30 a.m. Robert Weiss, Ph.D., University of Utah
Madhuri Hegde, Ph.D., Emory University
     
  Lunch
  12:15-1:30 p.m.  
     
  Panel discussion
  1:30-2:30 p.m. John Porter, Ph.D, NINDS (moderator)
Michelle Caggana, Sc.D., New York State Department of Health
Fred Lorey, Ph.D., California Department of Public Health
Jeffrey Brosco, M.D., Ph.D., University of Miami
Scott Grosse, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
     
  Break
  2:30-2:45 p.m.  
     
  Public and Provider Education
  2:45-3:45 p.m. Annie Kennedy, MDA (moderator)
Pat Furlong, PPMD
Robert Saul, M.D., Greenwood Genetic Center (and AAP)
Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D., University of Alabama, Birmingham (and ACMG)
Nicole Johnson, Sc.M., CGC, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
     
  Discussion of Next Steps: Questions to be answered
  3:45-5:00 p.m. Piero Rinaldo, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic
Michele Lloyd-Puryear, M.D., Ph.D., NICHD
     
  Adjourn
  5 p.m.  

 

Newborn Screening Resources

  • Overview
  • DMD Newborn Screening Symposium Agenda
  • MDA Newborn Screening Survey
  • Screening Newborns for Neuromuscular Diseases Has Pros and Cons
  • Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children
  • Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders - Group Letter
  • Pompe Disease, DMD: Newborn Screening Proposed
  • Newborn Screening Recommended for Pompe Disease
  • The AJMG SEQUENCE
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