NCMGA Fall Meeting at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

When:	Back to Calendar » October 12, 2012 (all-day)
Where:	Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Medical Center Blvd Winston-Salem,NC 27103 USA	View Full-Size Map » ✔ Add to Calendar Add to Google Calendar
Cost:	$15
Contact:	Megan Mortenson mmortens@wakehealth.edu

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Fall 2012 NCMGA Meeting and Educational Conference

October 12, 2012

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

8:15-9:00         Registration/Breakfast (Lobby of Babcock Auditorium)

9:00-9:15         Welcome by Pat Koty, PhD, Section Head

9:15-10:00        Challenging Prenatal Diagnosis Cases

Joshua Nitsche, MD, PhD

10:00-10:45     Genetic Disorders of Surfactant Function and Pediatric Lung Disease

W. Adam Gower, MD

10:45-11:15     The Down Syndrome Prenatal Diagnosis Study

Katie Sheets, MS, CGC and Blythe Crissman, MS, CGC

11:15-11:30     Break (Lobby of Babcock Auditorium)

11:30-12:30     Keynote: The Cohesin Complex and Human Developmental Disorders

Matthew Deardorff, MD, PhD

12:30-1:30       Lunch/Committee meetings

• Hanes E24                                                 Genetic Counselors
• Hanes E1                                                    Biochemical and Genetic Screening
• Hanes E4                                                    Molecular and Cytogenetics
• Academic Computing Conf. Room          Geneticists

1:30-2:00         NCMGA Business meeting

2:00-2:30         Effects of Dietary Soy on DNA Methylation in Non-Human Primates: a Model for Dietary Intervention Studies in Humans

Timothy Howard, PhD

2:30-3:00         Coping Mechanisms in Fathers of Children with Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS)   Julie Jesiolowski, MS

3:00-3:30         APOL1 and non-diabetic kidney disease:  a story in evolution

Barry Freedman, MD, FACP

3:30                 Evaluation and Adjournment