[girija]

Hi All,
FYI

SYNAPSES F IRING :
CONNECTIONS MADE CIRM Patient Advocacy Day & Stem Cell
Update on Neurodegenerative Diseases
Saturday
May 7th, 2011
Sue and Bill Gross
Stem Cell Research Center
Biomedical Research Park
UC Irvine (UCI)
Please contact Lorraine Stiehl, CIRM Patient Advocate Coordinator • lorstiehl@stiehlworks.com
RSVP 619-516-2864
9:00 AM! Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM! Welcome and Keynote Presentation, “CIRM’s Investment in Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Leeza Gibbons, CIRM ICOC Governing Board, Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Advocate;
the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation
10:20 AM! “The Faces of Neurodegenerative Disease”
Neal S. Hermanowicz, M.D., Neurologist, Movement Disorder Program,
Department of Neurology, UC-Irvine
10:25 AM! “An Overview of UC Irvine’s Neurodegenerative Program”
Peter J. Donovan, Ph.D., Director, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, UC-Irvine
10:45 AM! Patient Advocate Spotlight: Serge Morales and Susan Franklin
“Using Stem Cells to Understand and Treat Neurodegeneration,
including Alzheimer’s Disease”
Mathew Mark Blurton-Jones, Ph.D., Neurology and Behavior, School of Biological Sciences,
Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI-MIND), UC-Irvine
11:15 AM! Patient Advocate Spotlight: Evan Henry
“Stem Cells and Parkinson’s Disease”
Birgitt Schuele, M.D., Clinical Molecular Geneticist, the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center,
Sunnyvale
11:45 AM! Complimentary Lunch
12:30 PM! Patient Advocate Spotlight: Bill Johnston
“Using Stem Cells to Model Neurodegenerative Diseases in Huntington’s Disease
and Spinal Muscular Atrophy”
Virginia Mattis, Ph. D., Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los
Angeles
1:15 PM! Patient Advocate Sharing Sessions
2:00 PM! Program Concludes

[pkell]

Patient advocacy sharing??? Amazing. I hope you're going Girija.