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Commissioned Training for Centre of Excellence in Pediatrics 2013
Neurometabolic Diseases: Diagnostic Approach and Management Hong Kong, March 1-4, 2013 Virginia Wong
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Commissioned Training Course in “Neurometabolic Diseases: Diagnostic Approach and Management” was held from March 1st to 4th , 2013 in preparation for the establishment of the Centre of Excellence in Paediatrics in Hong Kong, aiming to raise the awareness and interest among the medical professionals and the local community in managing children with neurometabolic diseases. The course faculty included Dr. Ingrid Tein, President-elect of the International Child Neurology Association and Director of the Neurometabolic Clinic and Research Laboratory at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto and Dr Angeles Garcia-Cazorla, Head of Neurometabolic Disorders at the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu in Barcelona, both of whom
are paediatric neurologists specializing in neurometabolic diseases. Prof Eva Morava is a metabolic physician and geneticist at the Hayward Genetics Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. Prof Ron Wevers is a clinical biochemist and Head of the Laboratory of Genetic Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands and Prof Tamas Kozicz is a neuroscientist, in the Dept. of Anatomy at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Approximately 100 participants, including paediatric neurologists, metabolic physicians, clinical geneticists, obstetricians and chemical pathologists, attended this 4-day course which provided a comprehensive diagnostic approach to neurometabolic diseases from clinical to laboratory aspects including the following. ■
Top left 2nd row standing, Prof. Eva Morava, 5th from left – Dr. Cheukwing Fung, 6th – Dr. Eric Yau Seated first row: 2nd from left, Dr. Angeles Garcia-Cazorla, 3rd – Dr. Ingrid Tein, 4th – Prof. Virginia Wong, 5th: Prof. Ronald Wevers
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