12:30pm - Light lunch provided
1:00pm - Medical Expert Speaker Presentations
Expert Guest Speakers:
Dr. Hal Dietz
Geneticist and Pediatric Cardiologist |
MFS clinical presentation followed by Q&A period.
Victor A. McKusick Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD.
Click here to learn more about Dr. Dietz. |
Dr. Jennifer Pardo Habashi
Pediatric Cardiologist |
MFS research update followed by Q&A period.
Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore, MD.
Click here to learn more about Dr. Habashi. |
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Greetings and remarks from our special guests will follow the medical presentations |
Special Guests:
Carolyn Levering
NMF President
Kathy Jeffers
NMF Manager of Volunteer Development |
We are so glad that Carolyn Levering and Kathy Jeffers will be joining us this year and look forward to welcoming them and meeting them. Thank you so much ladies for taking the time and traveling on your weekend from New York to join us this year. We so appreciate it and are looking forward to it. |
Amy Speck
NMF Mid-Atlantic Chapter President |
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Location:
Broadway Research Building, Room: G-01 (Building 8 on Hopkins campus map)
Enter and check-in through Ross Research Building (Building No. 25 on map) on Monument Avenue.
Contact: Amy Speck, Home: (301) 371-5660, Cell: (301) 693-9645, siberianspring@hughes.net
Parking Directions and Rates
Accessible/Handicapped Parking:
Rutland Garage
Enter from Madison Street.
Please allow 15-30 minutes to get from your parking spot to the meeting.
Several spaces have been arranged for guests with mobility limitations who would benefit from accessible parking closer to the meeting on a self-pay basis. These are not cordoned-off spaces that you would need to specifically look for, but available in the Rutland garage.
Up to 1 hour --> $4
Up to 2 hours --> $4.50
Up to 3 hours --> $5
Up to 4 hours --> $5.50
Up to 5 hours --> $6
Up to 6 hours --> $6.50
To get to the Rutland Garage from Rt. 40 (Orleans Street) go north on North Washington Street for four blocks. Turn left onto Madison Street. (Madison is one-way westbound.) Go two blocks and turn left into the garage from Madison, before crossing Rutland Avenue. The garage is on the southeast corner of Rutland and Madison. If the garage is closed to the public when you arrive, press the intercom button on the ticket-spitter and announce that you are attending the National Marfan Foundation event. (If the garage is open when you pull up, you will not need to announce yourself.)
Free Weekend Parking
Washington Street Garage
Allow 15-30 minutes to walk from the garage and then through the building(s) to get to the meeting. The garage is open from 7am to 7pm. The gate will be open. Free all weekend. Garage is on the corner of East Monument and North Washington Street. From Rt. 40 (Orleans Street), go north on North Washington Street for 3 1/2 blocks. The entrance is on the right.
Click here for a map.
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