Neuroscience of Disease Forum

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    Who:            Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, Clinicians, Medical Students

    When:          Fridays, 12:15-1:45 p.m. EST

    Where:        AS7-2072 and via Zoom (link information to be provided later)

           new dates and topics for 2024 - 2025 will be shared soon

Sponsored by the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology and the NeuroNexus Institute

February 2025 - Parkinson’s Disease and Genetics: How Advances are Shaping Patients’ Experiences with Kara Smith, MD, associate professor of neurology, co-director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center, UMass Chan Medical School; Michael Lodato, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Molecular Cell and Cancer Biology, Genome Integrity Program, UMass Chan.

January 2025 - Cockayne Syndrome with Florian Eichler, MD, professor of neurology, Katherine B. Sims Chair in Neurogenetics, Center for Genomic Medicine Director, Center for Rare Neurological Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Terence R. Flotte, MD, Provost, Dean, professor of Genetic and Cellular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School; Ana Rita Batista, PhD, Instructor, Department of Neurology, Department of Genetic and Cellular Medicine, Horae Gene Therapy Center, UMass Chan.

May 2024 - Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Past, Present and Future with Roberto Caricchio, MD, professor of rheumatology, Myles J. McDonough Chair in Rheumatology, UMass Chan Medical School; Jillian Richmond, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology and neurology, UMass Chan Medical School

April 2024 - Multiple Sclerosis with Carolina Ionete, MD, PhD, professor of neurology, director, Neuroimmunology and MS Center, UMass Chan Medical School; Christopher C. Hemond, MD, assistant professor of neurology, associate research director, Neuroimmunology and MS Center, UMass Chan Medical School; Dorothy (Dori) Schafer, PhD, associate professor, Department of Neurobiology, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Institute, UMass Chan Medical School

March 2024 - Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Mutated Gliomas; an Update on Pathophysiology and Treatment with David Cachia, MD, associate professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology
Director, Neuro-Oncology Program; Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Milan Gambhir Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University.  

February 2024 - Understanding Age Related Macular Degeneration with Johanna Seddon, MD, chair and professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, UMass Chan; Claudio Punzo, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, UMass Chan.

January 2024 - Zika Virus: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Aspects with Soniza Vieira Alves-Leon, MD, PhD, professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jean Pierre Schatzmann Peron, PhD, associate professor, UMass Chan Medical School

December 2023 - The advent of disease modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease with Brian Silver, MD, professor of neurology, Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, UMass Chan Medical School, UMass Memorial Medical Center; Michael Heneka, MD, director, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, adjunct professor of medicine, UMass Chan Medical School; Dennis Selkoe, MD, co-director, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Vincent and Stella Coates professor of neurologic diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

July 2023 - Coordinated, Comprehensive Care in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Model for Complex, Multi-System Disease and the 5th Anniversary Celebration of the Duchenne Program with guest speaker Tracy Kramer Seckler, co-founder and CEO, Charley's Fund; our own Brenda Wong, MD, professor of pediatrics and neurology, clinical director, Duchenne Program, at UMass Chan Medical School, and Elizabeth Woelfel Harvey, executive director, JB's Keys to DMD.  

May 2023 - Brain Injury - Navigating the Continuum of Care with Michael Young, MD, PhD, assistant director of the MGH Neurorecovery Clinic, at Mass General Hospital; Andrew Galica, MD, assistant professor of neurology, at UMass Chan Medical School.

April 2023 - Opioid Use Disorder - A neurobiological and clinical overview with Caridad Ponce Martinez, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UMass Chan, and the University of California, San Francisco; Michael R. Bruchas, PhD, professor of anesthesiology, pharmacology and BioE, Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion, at the University of Washington, School of Medicine.

March 2023 - Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms of Altered Social Behaviors in Frontotemporal Dementia with Bruce Miller, MD, A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen distinguished professor in neurology, director of Memory and Aging Center, director of Global Brain Health Institute, at the University of California, San Francisco; Fen-Biao Gao, PhD, professor of neurology, Governor Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research, at UMass Chan Medical School.

Sponsored by the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology and the NeuroNexus Institute

Accreditation Statement: The UMass Chan Medical School is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Designation Statement: The UMass Chan Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Statement on Faculty Disclosure: It is the policy of UMass Chan Medical School to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all activities. All faculty participating in CME activities sponsored by UMass Chan are required to present evidence-based data, identify, and reference off-label product use and disclose all relevant financial relationships with those supporting the activity or others whose products or services are discussed. Faculty disclosure will be provided in the activity materials.