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University of North Dakota
Division of Medical Genetics

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Ramada Plaza Suites & Conference Center
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If your organization would like to exhibit at the conference, please contact Jayne Brown at (701) 777-4276 or email her at jbrown@medicine.nodak.edu.

Hearing Hoofbeats and Thinking Zebras
Conference
Screening, Testing and Management of Children with Genetic Disorders

April 23-24, 2007 - Fargo, North Dakota

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Agenda
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April 23

8:00 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:45 am
Spectrum of SLOS (Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome)
Dr. Susan Sparks
9:30 am
Neurological Features and Functioning in SLOS
Dr. Susan Sparks
10:15 am Break (in exhibit area)
10:45 am
New SLOS Research
Dr. Susan Sparks
11:30 am Lunch with Markie Noah
12:30 pm Newborn Screening Discussion, including Cystic Fibrosis
Newborn Screening Panel: Barb Schweitzer, RN(moderator); Sarah Copeland, MD, Alan Kenien, MD, Stephen Tinguely, MD
4:15 pm
Adventures in Metabolic Nutrition
Dr. Cathy Breedon
5:15 pm Social Hour (no host)
6:15 pm
Dinner.  Practical Approach to Emergency Treatment of Metabolic Disorders
Dr. Cheryl Greenberg
April 24
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Diagnostic Approach With a Child who has Dysmorphic Features
Dr. Bryan Hall
9:30 am Break
9:45 am
Referral to a Clinical Geneticist? Now What? 
Dr. John Martsolf
10:45 am
Legislative Impacts to Genetic Healthcare
Donene Feist
11:30 am Family Resources for the Health Care Professionals
Family Resource Panel: Pat Conway, PhD (moderator); Donene Feist, Tammy Gallup-Millner, RN
12:15 pm Box lunch
12:30 pm Parent Panel, Parent Perspective of the Diagnostic Process
Parent Panel: Grechen Noah, moderator; panel: Phil & Dianna Hansen, Jane & Stephen Nelson, MD, Scott & Robyn Throlson, Janette Venaas-Gilbraith
2:00 pm Closing Remarks