Photo credits: Glenn Katz
The Gaucher Community Alliance held its first Gaucher Patient and Family Conference on October 23 – 25 in Minneapolis, MN. The conference was designed to connect, educate, and empower Gaucher patients and their families by providing information and tools for them to best manage their disease and live fuller life. It was a wonderful opportunity for patients and family members to connect with and learn from their peers, the medical and research community, and other organizations and companies supporting Gaucher disease. Click on the links below to watch some of the innovative programming.
Playing on multiple screens throughout the conference, we offered a wonderful loop of the history of Gaucher research, treatments and support organized by former board member Nancy Masters. The slide presentation includes many who were involved in making the world a better place for people and families with Gaucher. This is an evolving collection of history, and if you have any information you’d like us to include, please contact us at info@gauchercommunity.org and send it our way.
See the Fascinating Facts About Gaucher Disease here!
Watch Cyndi and Aviva’s welcome and special message from Senator Amy Klobuchar
Ted Meyer is an artist and patient advocate. Ted will share how his personal experience with Gaucher disease serves as his artistic motivation through his artmaking, photography, design, curation and publishing projects. Ted has shown his work in venues as diverse as the United Nations, the National Museum of Health and Medicine, UCLA, the Bravard Museum of Art, St. John the Divine, and galleries in Asia and Europe.
Here is a link to Ted Meyer’s slides.
Open to patients and families only.
Hands-on and interactive workshops led by patients and family members for patients and family members. Experience, share, and bring home self-advocacy tools. Enjoy a sample of materials from the workshops presented below.
Dr. Wayne Rosenfield: The Elevator Pitch: Explaining Gaucher to Your New Provider
Dr. Stacey Feuer: The Zebra is Gray: Living and Thriving with Rare and Chronic Medical Illness
Aviva Rosenberg, JD: Selecting an Insurance Plan for your Family
Dr. Jim Cloyd and Rare Disease Theatrical Production
Slides of Center for Orphan Drug Research presentation by Dr Jim Cloyd
Open to patients, families, medical providers, scientific researchers, industry company sponsors and all other attendees.
Slides of Gaucher Disease and Parkinsonism presentation by Dr Ellen Sidransky
Slides of Clinical Challenges and Unmet Medical Needs in Neuropathic Gaucher Disease presentation by Dr Ozlem Goker-Alpan
Jim Romano discusses GCA’s legislative agenda for 2023 and how to get involved
Slides of Gaucher Disease – More Than Just a Lipid Storage Disease presentation by Dr Reena Kartha