Event

Patient Education Conference

Presented by the Scleroderma Foundation and the Northwestern Scleroderma Program.

SCHEDULE:
8:00 - 8:45 Registration, Continental Breakfast

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome

9:00 - 9:45 Michael Cuttica, MD - Pulmonary Hypertension

9:45 - 10:30 Bethany Doerfler, RD - Nutrition and Systemic Sclerosis

10:30 - 11:00 Break with refreshments

11:00 - 11:45 Breakout sessions:

Monique Hinchcliff, MD - Research update
Darren Brenner, MD - Rectal incontinence
Emily Keimig, MD - Skin complications

11:45 - 12:45 Maureen Mayes, MD - Keynote

12:45 End

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Maureen D. Mayes, MD, MPH
Dr. Mayes is the recipient of many distinctions, awards and grants for the study and treatment of scleroderma. She is the author of 119 published manuscripts, 19 reviews, 6 book chapters and 1 full-length book. Her clinical interests include the treatment of scleroderma and its multiple complications. She has been named as a "Super Doc" by Texas Monthly magazine and "Best Doctors in America" since 2008. Dr. Mayes is currently the Principal Investigator of the NIH/NIAMS funded Genome-Wide Association Study in systemic sclerosis that has the objective of identifying genes that influence disease susceptibility and severity. She is also principal investigator of the Scleroderma Family Registry and DNA Repository, which serves as a national resource to supply genetic material to other investigators to study this disease. Dr. Mayes is the current Director of the Centers of Research Translation in Scleroderma, one of the longest continually funded research centers of its kind in the U.S.

LOCATION:
Northwestern University
Lurie Medical Research Building, First Floor
303 E. Superior St. Chicago, IL 60611

PARKING:
222 E. Huron St. parking structure (located between St. Clair and Fairbanks)
Bring your parking ticket to the conference for validation.