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It is our intent that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts. It is not assumed any potential conflicts will have an adverse impact on these presentations. It remains for the audience to determine whether the speaker’s outside interest may reflect a possible bias, either the exposition or the conclusions presented.                                                                                                               

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FACULTY

Jeremy Alden, PhD-LP, Psychologist, Children's Minnesota

Kati Anderson, MD, Pediatric Geneticist, University of Vermont

Erica Barnes, Director of the Minnesota Rare Disease Advisory Council

Erica Berg & Dale Berg, Patient Advocates

Robert Galvin, MD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, researcher, University of Minnesota

Alicia Gomes MS CGC, Genetic Counselor and Researcher, University of Alabama

Rissa Hall, MS, CGC, Genetic Counselor, Fairview Health Services

Danette Fettig-Halloran, Elizabeth and Allan Halloran, Patient Advocates

Kristen Hook, MD, Pediatric Dermatologist, University of Minnesota

Sarah Murphy, DO, Pediatric Endocrinologist, Children's Minnesota

Kim Ostro, PhD, Researcher, Johns Hopkins University

Lisa Schimmenti, MD, Geneticist, Mayo Clinic

Kyle Williams, PhD, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Researcher, University of Minnesota

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Amy Lebedoff, MD, Genetics and Genomics, Children’s Minnesota  (Course Director)

Dinel Pond, MS CGC, Genetics and Genomics, Children’s Minnesota (Course Director)

Anne Bendel, MD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Children's Minnesota

Amy Bruzek, MD, Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Children’s Minnesota

Radhika Dhamija, MBBS, Medical Geneticist, Neurologist, Mayo Clinic

Clay Hoerig, DO, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, University of Minnesota

Maggie Skrypek, MD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Children's Minnesota

Sarah Wimmer, RN, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Clinic, Children's Minnesota

Russell Wolters, MD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Children’s Minnesota