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2008 ICF Cystinuria Symposium

Saturday, July 26, 2008
Saint Vincent's Hospital, New York, NY

New: Updated program available
New: Event location has changed

Join us at Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York, NY, on Saturday July 26th for the third installment of this educational and community building opportunity. Registration is now open!

This year's program will include presentations related to general cystinuria, cystinuria in children, surgical management, pain management, and a developing cystinuria registry collaboration as well as international perspectives on treatment and research.

Event Location:

The event will be held at St. Vincent's hospital in Manhattan, NY. The entrance is under the canopy on the right hand side of 12th St. Croan Auditorium is currently undergoing renovation, so this year our event will take place in the Link Lobby Conference Room. Please ask the information desk (just ahead of the hospital entrance revolving doors) to direct you.  

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Event Program:

The event program is now available for download

9:00: Breakfast snacks will be provided

9:20: Introduction
George Brown
Vice President, International Cystinuria Foundation

9:30 - 10:20: "Cystinuria, A Review"
David S. Goldfarb, MD
Director, Kidney Stone Prevention Program
St. Vincents Medical Center
Professor of Medicine and Physiology,
NYU School of Medicine

10:30 - 11:20: "Cystinuria in Childhood"
Paul Goodyer, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Mcgill University
Pediatric Nephrologist, Montreal Children's Hospital

11:30 - 12:20: "Living with Kidney Stones and in Pain: Risks and Treatments"
Michel Y. Dubois, MD
Director of Research & Education,
NYU Pain Program
Professor of Anesthesiology,
NYU School of Medicine

12:20: Lunch will be provided

1:00 - 1:50: "Urologic Interventions for Cystinuria"
Michael Grasso, MD
Chairman, Department of Urology,
Saint Vincent's Medical Center
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Urology,
New York Medical College

2:00 - 2:50: "Primary Hyperoxaluria Registry"
John C. Lieske, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Mayo Clinic Renal Function Laboratory

3:00 - 3:30: "Cystinuria: Can we develop a registry?"
David S. Goldfarb, MD

3:40 - 4:30: "International Perspectives on Cystinuria Research, Treatment, and Community "
Letters will be read from:

•Michel Daudon, PhD
Chairman of the Scientific Council of ARIC
Director of the CRYSTAL Laboratory
Saint-Cloud, France

•Sue Holden
Moderator of the Cystinuria Support Network
United Kingdom

•Jon Cartledge, MB BCh MD FRCS (Urol)
Consultant Urological Surgeon
Pyrah Department of Urology,
St James's University Hospital
Leeds, UK

•Dr. Manuel Palacín* and Dr. Virginia Nunes†
*Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
†Professor of Genetics
University of Barcelona
Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Barcelona, Spain

4:30: Program Conclusion
Matthew R. Lewis
President, International Cystinuria Foundation