Columbia University And Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Open New Spinal Muscular Atrophy Clinic

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Bryan Dotson

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Presbyterian Medical Center

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OPEN

NEW SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY CLINIC

Center promises to become leader in treating and managing family of

diseases

WHEN &

Tuesday, Sept. 17, noon

WHERE:

Harkness Pavilion

180 Fort Washington Ave.

New York, NY

WHAT: The Departments of Neurology Columbia University

and at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center are celebrating the

opening of the SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) Clinic, a center devoted to

the treatment and management of a group

of diseases that affect motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem.

SMA is the most common genetically

determined cause of infant death.

Thanks to the generosity of Dinaker Singh and Lauren Eng, parents of SMA

sufferer Arya Singh, this clinic is poised

to become a regional and national leader in the field linked to local and

national research programs that offer new

hope to families struggling with these disorders.

There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony and refreshments will be served.

WHO: Dr. Timothy A. Pedley, chairman, Department

of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons;

chairman, Department of Neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Columbia

Presbyterian Medical Center

Dr.

Darryl C. DeVivo, Sidney Carter Professor of Neurology, Columbia University

College of Physicians & Surgeons;

director, MDA Pediatric Neuromuscular Center at Children’s Hospital of

NewYork-Presbyterian

Dr.

Petra Kaufmann, assistant professor of neurology, Columbia University College

of Physicians & Surgeons; associate director, Pediatric

MDA Neuromuscular Center at Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian

Dr. Marc

Patterson, professor of clinical neurology, professor of clinical pediatrics,

Columbia University College

of Physicians

& Surgeons; director, Department of Pediatric Neurology at the Children’s

Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian

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