Webinar Series Rare Bone Diseases: Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Speaker: Prof Marelise Eekhoff
Chaired by Dr Geneviève Baujat & Dr Carolina Maria Medina Gomez
Learning Objectives:
- to understand the background of the disease
- being able to diagnose FOP
- to know which treatments are available (or not available yet)
Format:
- 5 min introduction
- 25 min meet-the-expert presentation
- 30 min Q&A and Case Discussion
Registration for On-Demand Access
The Live & On-demand webinar is free for ECTS members and non-members, but a registration is required. REGISTER HERE
Accreditation:
The ECTS Rare Bone Diseases Webinar – Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, Brussels, (Online), Belgium, 27/01/2022-27/01/2022 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 1 European CME credits (ECMEC®s).
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Faculty:
Featuring Prof. Marelise Eekhoff
Marelise Eekhoff is an internist-endocrinologist, associate professor, working as a staff member at the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Endocrinology of the University Medical Centers Amsterdam, location VU (VUmc), Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 2002.
She completed her internal medical education at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, the Netherlands. She then worked for more than a year in the Intensive Care Unit, followed by her endocrinology studies at the Endocrinology Department of the LUMC in Leiden. In the same period, she conducted her thesis “Paget’s bone disease in the Netherlands: epidemiology, genetics and treatment” (PhD 2004).
Moderated by
Dr Geneviève Baujat
Genevieve Baujat (MD, MSc), pediatrician by training, is clinical geneticist, consultant in the Centre of Reference for Skeletal Dysplasia, at the Imagine institute of Necker-Enfants malades Hospital, Paris, France. She is also member of the ERN BOND (Rare Bone Disease) and ICC (International Clinical Council on FOP). She has an active interest for skeletal dysplasia diagnosis (from antenatal period to adulthood) and pediatric management. She participates to several research projects through the Centre of Reference, including the development of databases and registries for better known epidemiology and natural history of skeletal conditions, and clinical trials for emergent therapies, including Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Dr Carolina Maria Medina Gomez
Dr Carolina Medina Gomez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands and current member of the ECTS academy. She obtained her PhD in 2016 and was awarded multiple recognitions including the New Investigator award by ECTS, ASBMR and ICBBH. Her work in genetic epidemiology in admixed populations gave her the opportunity to visit the Children Hospital of Philadelphia financed by the European Union. She is the main genetic analysts of the ErasmusMC cohorts and has led many projects within the GEFOS/GENOMOS consortium. Her findings have contributed to underscore the importance of molecules such as WNT16 in bone biology. Her work is at the forefront of cutting-edge methods in genomics (including not only genetic data but also transcriptomics). She has now extended her research to include the microbiome and has a lead role in the MiBioGen consortium trying to bring together genetic, genomic and gut microbiome data.
Sponsorship:
This webinar is supported by an educational grant from industry. The content of the session has not been influenced by the sponsors.