The Stanford Pituitary Center invites patients with pituitary disease, their family and friends to Stanford's Pituitary Patient Education Day!
May 18, 2019 at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel 625 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA
Topics and Breakout Sessions:
Function of the pituitary gland
General review of pituitary tumors
Endoscopic endonasal surgery for pituitary tumors
Quality of life after endonasal surgery
Radiation therapy for pituitary tumors
Cushing's Disease, prolactinoma, and acromegaly
Hypopituitarism therapy and growth hormone deficiency
Speakers:
Olivia Chu, NP, Nurse Practitioner
Robert Dodd, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Juan Fernandez-Miranda, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery
Andrew Hoffman, MD, Professor of Medicine
Peter Hwang, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology
Laurence Katznelson, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Medicine
Erin Wolff, NP, Nurse Practitioner
Course Directors:
Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, MD, FACS
Professor of Neurosurgery, and by Courtesy, of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Co-Director, Stanford Skull Base Surgery Program
Laurence Katznelson, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Medical Director, Pituitary Center