MDA Chat Summer Schedule

[Guest guest]

The moderators of the Mito chat will be taking some time off over the summer

months so please mark your calendars to reflect the following chats.

Tonight is our last regular chat until September but we will have three guest

chats starting next week.

The June 21st chat will be a guest chat with

on, M.D.

Dr. on originated and has directed the Pediatric MDA Clinic at the

University of New Mexico since 1995. She has taken care of children with

neuromuscular diseases since her first career in pediatric physical therapy.

Through medical school at the University of New Mexico and residency training at

s Hopkins Hospital (completed 1992), her interest in these disorders has

grown. Clinical interests include inherited diseases of nerve and muscle,

especially those that disproportionately affect New Mexican families. She has

research projects in myotonic, oculopharyngeal and Duchenne muscular

dystrophies. She loves mentoring students, residents, and young faculty and is

developing a project for teaching primary care physicians about child neurology

topics. Family workshops are being planned for Duchenne and oculopharyngeal

muscular dystrophy. She has served as an executive board member of New Mexico

MDA, and as an MDA camp physician. Nationally, she currently serves on the

executive boards of the Child Neurology Foundation, the Transverse Myelitis

Association, as a member of the Practice Parameter committee of the Child

Neurology Society, and as an examiner for the National Board of Psychiatry and

Neurology, and on the Recertification Committee for Child Neurology. She

contributes to the Ask the Experts service.

We will not have chat on June 28th or July 5th.

We will have a special guest chat on July 12th with:

Gropman, M.D., FAAP

Dr. Gropman is an Assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at town

University and the Center for functional and molecular imaging and Adjunct

Scientist (genetics) in the Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome

Research Institute. She is board certified in pediatrics, neurology with special

qualifications in child neurology and clinical genetics. She received her M.D.

from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed her pediatric

training at the s Hopkins Hospital and trained in Neurology and Child

Neurology at the Washington University and the Children's National

Medical Center, Washington, DC. She completed a genetics fellowship at the

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and completed a research

postdoctoral fellowship there through a Medical Institute

Physician postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Gropman is the founder and director of

the Neurogenetics Clinic at the Children's National Medical Center. She has been

a coinvestigator on a number of NIH intramural clinical studies through NHGRI

and NICHD; and provides medical expertise to the United Mitochondrial Disease

Foundation and is a member of the medical and scientific advisory board.

Chats will be suspended between July 19th thru August 16th.

On August 23rd. we will have a guest chat with:

Enns, M.B., Ch.B.

Director, Biochemical Genetics Program

Division of Medical Genetics

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Please watch for more information on Dr Enns.

There will be no chat on August 30th or September 6th.

Regularly scheduled weekly chats will resume on September 13th.

You can view all the past chats at

http://www.mdausa.org/chat/mitoexp.html

Along with information on upcoming chats.

You can enter the Mito chat at the MDA site by going to

http://database.azstarnet.com/dynamic/plsql/mdachat25

Always make sure you enter the Mitochondrial Chat which is held from 9 to 10 PM

on Monday nights.

Alice, Kristie, Laurie and Cindy

The MDA Mito Chat Moderators