Other Conferences for PSC Researchers, Patients, and Caregivers

Symposium: PSC Treatment and Search for a Cure

September, 2009
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

Physicians from Mount Sinai presented medical aspects of PSC, and board members from PSC Partners Seeking a Cure introduced their programs. Click here for newsletter articles summarizing the event and here for sides from Dr. Odin’s presentationand click here for Dr. Miloh’s presentation

The event was co-sponsored by Mount Sinai School of Medicine Division of Liver Diseases, and PSC Partners Seeking a Cure.

Agenda:

• Welcome: Douglas Dieterich, MD, Director of Continuing Medical Education, Department of Medicine, Director of Outpatient Hepatology, Division of Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
• Dr. Joseph Odin, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, “Latest PSC Research”
• Dr. Nancy Bach, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Dr. Franklin Klion, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, panel discussion on “Lifestyle and Nutrition with PSC”
• Ricky Safer-President of PSC Partners Seeking a Cure, and Don Safer, “How this National Foundation can help PSC Patients and Caregivers”
• Dr. Miloh Tamir, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, “PSC in Children and Adolescents”

The Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis-Inflammatory Bowel Disease Link

October, 2009
Anschutz Medical Campus-Aurora, Colorado

The interactive forum was presented by the medical and research community of the University of Colorado Denver and The Children’s Hospital of Denver in conjunction with PSC Partners Seeking a Cure. It was designed for a mixed audience: physicians, researchers, PSC patients, and caregivers.

• Dr. Sean Colgan, University of Colorado, Denver, “Opening Remarks”
• Morning Keynote Speaker: Dr. Keith D. Lindor of the Mayo Clinic/ Rochester, speaking on “Current and Future Treatments for PSC”
  • Dr. Lisa Forman, University of Colorado, Denver, “Adult PSC at the University of Colorado”
  • Dr. Jeffrey Campsen, University of Colorado, Denver, “Clinically Recurrent PSC following Liver Transplant: A Time Course”
  • Dr. Raj Shah, The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado, Denver, "Endoscopic Technologies in PSC”
  • Dr. Shikha Sundaram, The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado, Denver, “ Pediatric PSC at The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado, Denver”
• Moderators for Afternoon Sessions: Dr. Sean Colgan, Dr. Alan Baird, both of University of Colorado, Denver, And Dr. Cara Mack, The Children’s Hospital
• Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tom H. Karlsen of the Norwegian PSC Center, “Differences and Similarities Between PSC-IBD and UC-Lessons Learned from Genome-Wide Association Studies”
  • Dr. Brian Doctor, University of Colorado, Denver, “Biliary Physiology in PSC”
  • Dr. Steve Helmke, University of Colorado, Denver, “Biomarkers of PSC”
  • Dr. Jesus Rivera-Nieves, University of Colorado, Denver, “Shared Determinants Between IBD and PSC”
  • Don and Ricky Safer, PSC Partners Seeking a Cure, “Foundation Programs and Activities”

Summaries of the medical presentations and PowerPoint slide presentations at this conference are available below:

• The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Final Agenda 
• The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Conference Summary, by Rachel G. 
  
  • The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Dr. Lindor 
  • The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Dr. Forman 
  • The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Dr. Sundaram 
  • The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Dr. Karlsen 
  • The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Dr. Helmke 
  • The PSC-IBD Link (University of Colorado, Denver, Oct. 2009); Dr. Rivera-Nieves