Dear member,
This “Ladies Only” education program will take place on Sunday, פרשת בהר-בחוקותי, May 10, 2015. At the new Vilchovitz Hall (former Yeshiva of Spring Valley, Boys School), 230 Maple Ave., Monsey, NY 10952.
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Welcome and Introduction:
7:15pm Sharp!
- Program Moderator:
James F. Marion, MD,
Professor of Practice of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai IBD center history: the house Dr. Crohn’s built:
Bruce E. Sands, MD,Chief, Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
- The course of Crohn’s disease and how it can behave:
Asher A. Kornbluth, MD,Clinical Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai HospitalFounder and annual course director of the Mount Sinai IBD Consultants Course
- Genetics of IBD in the Ashkenazi Jewish population:
Inga Peter, PhD,Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic SciencesMember, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
- How diet and our environment affect the bacteria inside our bodies:
Jeremiah Faith, PhD,Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic SciencesAssistant Professor, Medicine, Clinical Immunology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Why prevention of IBD is possible:
Jean-Frédéric Colombel, MD,Co-director Susan and Leonard Feinstein IBD Center, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
- How can you help?:
Marla Dubinsky, MD,Chief Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology,
Co-director Susan and Leonard Feinstein IBD Center, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
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Followed by a question and answer, Eleven doctors panel, with the additional following professors in the field:
Keith Benkov, MD, Associate Professor Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai HospitalJudy H Cho, MD, Professor Medicine, Gastroenterology and Professor Genetics and Genomic SciencesJoana Torres, MD, Post-Doctoral Fellow Mount Sinai School of MedicineJose Carlos Clemente, MD, Assistant Professor Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Please call us at 845-670-4522 or email us atRoadToPRevention@JCCSG.org with your questions in advance as we will only be able to accept minimal questions at the event.
Again, we would like to take the opportunity to invite the non-effected family members of effected. It is highly regarded to have family members of IBD Sufferers participate in this study as a means of prevention. Please help us/yourself with letting your family know about it, and inviting them to join this symposium. By navigating the “road to prevention” together we can save our future generations.
We’re working on providing transportation from Kiryas Yoel – Monroe, and New Square. Please call 845-670-4522 or email us to RSVP.
For any other comments and suggestions, please feel free to contact us anytime by phone at our designated number 845-670-4522 or email.
We would be delighted to hear from you. Your participation is much appreciated!
