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The National Coalition for PKU & Allied Disorders
and all of the Family Support Groups that attended this Metabolic
Conference would like to extend a very sincere appreciation to all
of our honored speakers.
Our Families benefited greatly from having them share
their expertise and experiences in the various fields related to
metabolic disorders. Thank you!
Alexander Asamoah, MD, PhD
 Conference
Talk
Gastrointestinal problems
in children with metabolic disorders (PDF*) |
Dr. Asamoah obtained his medical degree at the University
of Ghana Medical School in Accra, Ghana in 1981 and did further
training at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Biometry
and Genetics, Columbia-Presbyterian Harlem Hospital Center as a
Pediatric Intern and Resident, and at the Harvard Medical School
– Children’s Hospital, Boston, as a Clinical Genetics
Fellow. Dr Asamoah is presently a full-time clinical geneticist.
He participates in syndrome delineation, neurogenetics evaluation,
evaluation and management of children with inborn errors of metabolism,
prenatal genetics counseling, and counseling of adult onset diseases.
He is a medical consultant to the DNA diagnostics laboratory reports.
He participates in residency and clinical genetics fellowship teaching
and preceptorship and gives lectures on common genetic syndromes,
inborn errors of metabolism, etc to residents and staff physicians,
as well as participates in genetics outreach clinics. He currently
holds Academic and Medical Staff Appointments at Henry Ford Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, and
St. Joseph-Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac MI. He has several publications
in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, Clinical Genetics,
and Pediatric in Review.
Elaina Jurecki, MS, RD
I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry
at the University of Pennsylvania, and my Master’s Degree
in Nutritional Science from Michigan State University. I completed
a 1-year dietetic internship at the University of California San
Francisco Medical Center, and continued on working there for five
years in the Genetics Department, coordinating care for children
with Inborn Errors of Metabolism. I also worked in the hospital
on the pediatric ward and in the pediatric intensive care unit.
I then was recruited to come work for Kaiser as a Metabolic Nutrition
Coordinator for the Northern California Kaisers. I took a three-year
break, moving to Southern California, where I worked at Long Beach
Memorial Hospital providing nutritional care for pediatric patients
in the clinics for genetics, inborn errors, endocrine, and GI. This
provided me a good opportunity to see how Medical Centers, outside
of Kaiser, manages pediatric patients with chronic disease. I returned
to Northern California Kaiser in fall, 2001, and resumed my position
as a Regional Metabolic Nutrition Coordinator in the Genetics Department.
I am very interested in pediatric nutrition and in biochemistry,
and in the clinical research pertaining to these areas. In addition
to my career here at Kaiser, I have a family, and spend a great
deal of time volunteering at school and with youth sporting events
and activities. My passions include spending time with my family,
biking, roller-blading, and hiking, gardening, and reading (usually
journal articles).
Mark Korson, MD
Dr. Korson obtained his medical school degree at the
University of Toronto in 1982. He completed a pediatric residency
at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, followed by a fellowship
in genetics and metabolism at Children's Hospital in Boston. He
was director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children's Hospital from
1990-2000. Currently, he is Associate Chief of Metabolism at Tufts-New
England Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at
Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Korson's clinical interests
include exploration of the clinical, biochemical and molecular aspects
of the inborn errors of metabolism, creating mechanisms in the community
for health care maintenance for these patients (especially long
distance care), and developing teaching methods for training physicians,
residents and medical students about genetic metabolic diseases.
David Whiteman, MD
Conference
Talk
Untangling the Spirals of
Metabolic Disease: Primary Diagnoses and Secondary Effects:
Implications for Treatment
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Dr. Whiteman obtained his undergraduate and medical
degrees from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Following
general postgraduate medical training there, during which he realized
that he would never be successful as a surgeon (his second career
choice: he had already been rejected by the RAF for pilot training
because he is so nearsighted), he came to the United States for
a year "on a lark." His first position was as a resident
in Pediatrics at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. He enjoyed Pediatrics,
completed his residency, and stayed in the US, both for the sake
of further training in Genetics and Metabolism, and also for the
sake of a young lady from Rhode Island who is now his wife. His
training in Genetics and Metabolism was at the Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia in the early 1980s, at the time that Fat Oxidation
Defects and Carnitine Deficiency were first being defined there:
his longstanding interest in the therapeutic merits of Carnitine
dates from that time. Subsequently, he has held a variety of positions
in clinical and laboratory genetics and metabolism in medical schools
throughout the United States. For the past 4 years he has been focused
on the diagnosis, and especially on the treatment, of metabolic
disorders [and in particular on mitochondrial disorders], in the
Department of Medical Genetics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota. He is the father of twin boys, neither of whom wishes
to pursue a career in medicine, and has the longest commute (1768
miles) of anyone who either works at the Mayo Clinic or who lives
in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. When not practicing medicine, he sings
baritone, plays the flute, takes out his frustrations on innocent
tennis balls, and enjoys biking, hiking and camping with his family.
Lynne A. Wolfe, MS, CRNP, PNP, BC
Conference
Talk
Supplements and Co-factors
in the Treatment of Metabolic Disorders (PDF*) |
Lynne has been a nurse for over 20 years and a Metabolic
Nurse Practitioner for nearly 10 years. As a staff nurse, she worked
mostly in Pediatric Critical Care. Her Nurse Practitioner training
was completed at the University of Rochester in New York where she
earned her pediatric primary care degree and also her acute care
degree. She has worked in rural New England, with Dr. Charles Roe
in Dallas, and is now working with Dr. Gerard Vockley in Medical
Genetics at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Lynne is very
supportive of the FOD and OAA Groups and is an active contributor
on both Listserves and their Newsletters.
Once again ~ a big THANK YOU to all that helped
make this Conference possible!
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