Mitochondrial Medicine 2022 - Phoenix
June 8-11, 2022
Enduring Activity Course Chairs and Speakers
Richard Haas, MB, BChir
Course Co-Chair
University of California San Diego, CA
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD
Course Co-Chair
University of California San Diego, CA
Directed Gene and Stem Cell Therapy
Don W. Cleveland, PhD
University of California San Diego
LaJolla, CA
Designer DNA Drug Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease
Robert McFarland, PhD, MRCPCH
Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University, UK
Reproductive Options for mtDNA Disease
Alysson R. Muotri, PhD
UCSD School of Medicine, Institute of Genomic Medicine, La Jolla, CA
Directed Gene and Stem Cell Therapy
Mitochondrial Medicine Society Sessions
Divakar Mithal, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital Chicago
Chicago, IL
Management of Acute Emergencies (ICU) in Mitochondrial Disease
Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) - Therapy Updates
Jessica Gold, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA
All Grown Up and Nowhere to Go: The Current State of Adult Metabolic Medicine in the US
Nivedita Thakur, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA
Movement Disorders in Mitochondrial Disease - with a Leigh Syndrome Focus
Mitochondria in Space
Afshin Beheshti, PhD
KBR at NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA
Mitochondria Dysfunction as the Universal Driver of Space Flight Across All Species
Autism Inflammation and Mitochondria
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD
University of California San Diego
LaJolla, CA
Autism and Mitochondria—2010 to 2022
Pat Levitt, PhD
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Early Life Stress and Brain Mitochondrial Dysfunction
Rebecca Grzadzinski, PhD
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Early Intervention – Autism Spectrum Disorders
Judy Van de Water, PhD
University of California Davis
Davis, CA
Neuroimmunology and
Autoimmunity in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Abigail Dickinson, PhD
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Electrophysiologic Insights to Neurodevelopment in Autism Spectrum Disorders