Meningioma Awareness Day 2009

Presentations from MAD 2009 Speakers

The Value of an Academic Health Sciences Center in the Care of Brain Tumor Patients
A. John Popp, MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital Department of Neurosurgery

The Promise of Personalized Medicine
Meningioma Science Panel:

• Alexandra Golby, MD
  Brigham & Women's Hospital Department of Neurosurgery
• Nathalie Agar, PhD
  Brigham & Women's Hospital Department of Neurosurgery
• Edward Smith, MD
  Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital Boston
• Mark Johnson, MD, PhD
  Brigham & Women's Hospital Department of Neurosurgery

Maximizing Your Relationship with Your Neurooncologists
Patrick Wen, MD
Director, Division of Neuro-oncology, Brigham & Women's Hospital

New Molecular Therapies for Meningioma/Clinical Trials
Andrew Norden, MD
Division of Cancer Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Center For Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

What Children Can Teach Us About Meningioma
Joseph Madsen, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital Boston

Fatigue
Nancy Conn-Levin
BSF Advisor, Health Educator and Meningioma Survivor

Spinal Meningioma
John Chi, MD, PhD
Brigham & Women's Hospital Department of Neurosurgery

The Role of Neuropsychiatry in Managing a Meningioma Diagnosis
Alan Silbersweig, MD
Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
Donald Levy, MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital Osher Clinical Center For Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies

Brain Tumor Board
Featuring an interdisciplinary team of Doctors led by
Debra LaFrankie, RN
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center

The Physiological and Emotional Toll of Caregiving
Nancy Olsen Bailey, RN, MBA
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery

The Economics of Caring for Your Meningioma
Andrea Scanlon, RN, Case Manager
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Donna Dello Iacono, RN, PhD
Brigham & Women's Hospital

Young Adult Issues with Non-Malignant Brain Tumors
Eric Galvez, PT, DPT, CSCS

Additional presentations to be added as they become available.