Mark Your Calendars for the Summer Chat Schedule at the MDA Site

[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.

We will have regularly scheduled chats on June 7th and June 14th.

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