Patient Education Seminar at Penn
On March 10, 2012, the Scleroderma Foundation Delaware Valley Chapter sponsored a patient education seminar at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Over 80 patients and their families attended the seminar.
Thank you to Dr. Peter Merkel who gave an update on Scleroderma Research and Therapy, Dr. Chris Derk who spoke about Raynaud’s disease, and Mrs. Juliann Nederostek, who spoke about scleroderma care from a nurse’s perspective. A power point presentation is available for Mrs. Nederostek’s talk. Dr. Merkel, Chief of Rheumatology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has recently arrived in Philadelphia from Boston University where he was a key member of the Boston University Scleroderma program. Dr. Derk, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Fellowship Program Director at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, worked for many years at the Scleroderma Center at Thomas Jefferson University. Mrs. Nederostek is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Thomas Jefferson University. Again, we all of our speakers for sharing ways to cope with scleroderma and hope for a better future.
This program was made possible, in part, by unrestricted grants
from Gilead Sciences.
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