Announcing the 3rd Annual JHTMC Transverse Myelitis Symposium

The 3rd Annual JHTMC Transverse Myelitis Symposium will be held on Saturday, June 20th at 9:00 am at the Arcade Conference Center, located at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1800 Orleans Street, Zayed 2117, Baltimore, MD).

Patients and caregivers will have the opportunity to meet with practitioners and other patients in an effort to learn more about their disease, symptom management, patient advocacy, standard-of-care and ongoing investigations into new treatments. Research opportunities will also be available to those who are interested.

For more details and to register, please RSVP here.

Please join us for a day of education, research, and interaction with fellow TM patients… plus a little bit of fun!

Agenda

9:00 am-9:30 am
Registration & Breakfast

9:30 am-9:45 am
Maureen A. Mealy, RN, BSN
Opening Remarks

9:45 am-10:10 am
Carlos A. Pardo, MD
TM: Making the Diagnosis

10:15 am-10:40 am
Daniel Becker, MD
You have TM… Now What?

10:45 am-11:00 am
Break

11:00 am-11:25 am
Charlene Gamaldo, MD
Sleep Issues in TM: What to Know

11:30 am-11:55 am
Mackenzie & Casey Springer
From the Perspective of a Mother & Patient

12:00 am-1:00 pm
Lunch; Patient Roundtable Discussions: pitfalls and frustrations of life with TM

1:00 pm-1:25 pm
Adam Kaplin, MD, PhD
Treating Depression in TM

1:30 pm-1:55 pm
Kathleen Zackowski, PhD

2:00 pm-2:15 pm
Break

2:15 pm-2:40 pm
Scott Newsome, DO

2:45 pm-3:10 pm
Janet Dean, CRNP

3:15 pm-3:30 pm
Break

3:30 pm-4:00 pm
Michael Levy, MD, PhD
TM Data-blitz

Special thanks to financial supporters of the Symposium, the Bart McLean Neuroimmunology Research Fund

Endorsed by the Transverse Myelitis Association