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UCP & AACPDM Panel Discussion About Changing Landscape for Cerebral Palsy and Other Developmental Disabilities

United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) and the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) hosted a panel discussion about the future of cerebral palsy (CP) and other developmental disabilities during UCP’s fall gala event, Shared Learning, Global Transformation: The Changing Landscape for Cerebral Palsy & Other Developmental Disabilities. The event inaugurated a partnership between both organizations at AACPDM’s 64th Annual Meeting at the Newseum in Washington, DC on September 22, 2010.

Panel/Topics:

• Richard Stevenson, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the Division of Developmental Pediatrics
  Topic: Pooled Research
• Linnea Burman, Director of Drug Delivery Marketing, Medtronic
  Topic: Patient to Patient Networks
• Robert Armstrong, MD, Founding Dean of the College of Medicine - East Africa
  Topic: International Perspectives on Advances in Cerebral Palsy
• Janice Brunstrom-Hernandez, MD, Director of the Pediatric Neurology, Cerebral Palsy Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital
  Topic: Thinking Beyond Medicine
• Greg Elin, Chief Data Officer, Federal Communications Commission
  Topic: A Life Without Limits

Shared Learning, Global Transformation: The Changing Landscape for Cerebral Palsy & Other Developmental Disabilities was generously underwritten by Shionogi Pharma Inc. The Panel Discussion/Presentation was made possible with support by the Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation (CPIRF).