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The Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group-USA (DSMIG-USA®) Clinic Support Committee has designed a free webinar series focused on operating a Down syndrome clinic.  

SESSION II: USING SELF ADVOCATES IN DOWN SYNDROME CLINICS

Date: Tuesday, December 6

Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

The second webinar in this free series will be Using Self Advocates in Down Syndrome Clinics. In this 1 hour webinar, participants will hear representatives from different Down syndrome clinics discuss a variety of ways to use self advocates within or related to Down syndrome clinic services.

Featured speakers:

  • Rebecca Partridge MD |Virginia Mason Medical Center
  • Angela Lombardo MSW |Boston Children’s Hospital; Nina Powell-Hamilton MD and Lauren Davey | Nemours/Alfred l. DuPont Hospital for Children
  • Anne Marie Dolinish-Meltzer | Eastern Pennsylvania Down Syndrome Center and Brian Meltzer
  • Brian Chicoine, MD | Medical Director, Adult Down Syndrome Center Faculty, Lutheran General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Adult Down Syndrome Center | Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Registration Fee

There is no fee to attend the presentations. If you would like to make a donation to DSMIG-USA, please visit the donation page.

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Session I: Examining the Impact of Down Syndrome Clinics: An Outcomes Discussion

Date: February 23, 2022

Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM Eastern

Speakers: Fran Hickey MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Kishore Vellody MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine & Seth Van Zant MD; and Mary Stephens MD, Jefferson Health


The first webinar in this series will be Examining the Impact of Down Syndrome Clinics: An Outcomes Discussion

and will take place Wednesday, February 23 from 7:00 - 8:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time). In this 1 hour webinar, participants will hear physicians from three different Down syndrome clinics discuss and share outcome data from both pediatric and adult clinics.

Schedule as Follows:

Fran Hickey MD: 10 year analysis of clinic outcome data for a Pediatric DS Clinic (20 minutes)

Kishore Vellody MD & Seth Van Zant MD: Financial Impact of an Established Pediatric DS Center (20 minutes)

Mary Stephens MD: Health Benefits of a clinic for Teens & Adults with Down syndrome (20 minutes)

Registration Fee

There is no fee to attend the presentations. If you would like to make a donation to DSMIG-USA, please visit the donation page.

WATCH RECORDING HERE


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