This year's Krishna Saxena, MD Endocrine Lecture will be presented by Carlos A. Bacino, MD, FACMG.

Dr. Bacino is a Professor, Vice Chair Clinical Affairs, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine;

Chief, Genetics Service, Director, Angelman Syndrome Clinic, Texas Children's Hospital;

Medical Director, Baylor Genetics Cytogenetics Laboratory

Dr. Bacino has worked in the field of clinical genetics for over 30 years. His training has provided him with a vast experience in the fields of clinical genetics, cytogenomics and molecular testing. Over the past decade he has been more interested in the detection, delineation and treatment of patients with rare disorders driven by the recent technological. He is the co-PI for the Undiagnosed Disease Network NIH initiative at the Houston clinical site currently in its 11th year. In that capacity he has been involved in the evaluation of patients with rare disorders, many of them successfully diagnosed through genome sequencing and transcriptomics and in many cases aiding to the discovery of new genes. More recently he has become a co-investigator in an NIH sponsored trial known as Texome that provides clinical evaluations and exome sequencing to underserved populations. He has been working in clinical care and research of patients with skeletal dysplasias. He is the PI for multiple multinational clinical research efforts in the achondroplasia field.  Dr. Bacino has also worked in the care of Angelman syndrome patients for 20 years and currently the PI for a clinical trial using antisense oligonucleotide therapies in Angelman syndrome through the sponsorship of IONIS Pharmaceutical and more recently the PI for an AAV mediated gene therapy trial in Angelman syndrome.

Krishna Saxena, MD Endocrine Lecture

This lectureship is one that does more than honor a talented physician. It tangibly perpetuates Dr. Saxena’s life-long commitment to high-quality medical education for aspiring pediatricians and pediatric specialists.​

​This is a forum for the advancement of knowledge, with the hope that it will bring improved health for our community’s children.

This presentation will be held both in-person in the 2nd Floor Education Center on the Minneapolis Campus with lunch provided while quantities last or virtually. We will try our best to provide a meal for you; however, all is dependent on final number of attendees.

When you register, you will be asked to enter whether you will be attending in-person or virtually.