Guest Speakers

International Speakers

Don Shields, M.D.

Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics UCLA School of Medicine

Elena Stacy Mazzone

Registered physiotherapist

Catholic University in Rome, Child Neurology ward

TREAT-NMD Network (Translational Research in Europe for the Assessment and Treatment of Neuromuscular Disease)

Trainer North Star Italian validation

UILDM-Italian Union for DMD Rehabilitation Centre, Neuromuscular Clinic

Harry T. Chugani, M.D.

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology and Radiology

Director, Positron Emission Tomography Center

Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University

Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Ingrid Tein, M.D., FRCP(C)

Staff Neurologist, The Hospital for Sick Children

Senior Scientist, Genetics and Genome Biology, Research Institute

Associate Professor, University of Toronto.

Kenneth J. Mack, M.D., Ph.D.

Consultant, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Consultant, Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Consultant, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Associate Professor in Neurology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

                                                               Director, Mayo Clinic T. Denny Sanford Pediatric Center

Michael Noetzel, M.D.

Director, Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology.

Director of Clinical Services in the Division of Pediatric Neurology.

Medical Director of Clinical and Diagnostic Neuroscience Services at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Director of Clinical Services for the Division of Pediatric           Neurology and for St. Louis Children's Hospital.