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Maurice Zauderer, Ph. D. has served as Vaccinex’s President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors since the company’s inception in April 2001. Prior to founding Vaccinex, Dr. Zauderer was an Associate Professor at the University of Rochester and has also held senior faculty positions at Columbia University. During his academic career, Dr. Zauderer held the position of...

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Becky Crumpler talks about her daughter being in a facility during COVID-19

ER Visits during COVID-19

Because we are all concerned about COVID-19 right now, we are re-airing our show with Dr. Wheelock and Lisa Mooney. Dr. Vicki Wheelock is a neurologist and the director of the HDSA Center of Excellence at UC Davis Health. The mission of the HD clinic at UC Davis is to provide expert and compassionate care to people and families affected by HD, to provide outreach and education to families and heal...

Lauren Holder and COVID19

Among Dr. Kenechi Ejebe’s responsibilities at Wave is to serve as the clinical lead of the Neurology (CNS) programs which include Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal dementia. Dr. Ejebe has more than 10 years of translational and clinical research experience focused on developing innovative treatments for patients. Prior to joining Wave, he was a Resident Physic...

Dr. Vicki Wheelock is a neurologist and the director of the HDSA Center of Excellence at UC Davis Health. The mission of the HD clinic at UC Davis is to provide expert and compassionate care to people and families affected by HD, to provide outreach and education to families and health care professionals, and to advance HD research. Dr. Wheelock has extensive experience in HD education and researc...

Terry Tempkin, NP-C, MSN, is an Adult Nurse Practitioner who spent 18 years working with Huntington’s disease families at the University of California Davis Health System. During her time there, she worked with the HD team to build one of the largest HD programs in the country, noted for their expertise in HD/JHD care. She participated in over 18 clinical trials in Huntington’s disease.   Although...

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For more information about KINECT-HD, please visit the HSG website at: https://huntingtonstudygroup.org/current-clinical-trials/kinect-hd/

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HDYO has a new Genetic Testing program! Please visit their website for more information: www.hdyo.org Matt Ellison's bio: "Hi! My role at HDYO includes developing all the educational project work we do for our website, including video projects, overseeing the youth camps and events HDYO hosts globally, planning future global projects to expand our reach, keeping the website up-to-date, responding...

Gene Veritas Rerun 

Patty Romero-Mabry shares her HD experience as a caregiver for her husband and her son with JHD. For information on how you can help Patty and Bryan, please contact Lauren Holder at lauren@help4hd.org

Melissa (Dilley) Ryant has been a member of the Huntington's Disease Society of America's (HDSA) National Youth Alliance (NYA) since attending her first convention in 2013. From that point, Melissa volunteered to serve on the NYA board for 6 years. Her mother had HD and was symptomatic her entire life, until she passed away in 2008. A few years later, Melissa tested gene negative at the age of 24....

Melissa (Dilley) Ryant has been a member of the Huntington's Disease Society of America's (HDSA) National Youth Alliance (NYA) since attending her first convention in 2013. From that point, Melissa volunteered to serve on the NYA board for 6 years. Her mother had HD and was symptomatic her entire life, until she passed away in 2008. A few years later, Melissa tested gene negative at the age of 24....

David Rubinsztein is Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics and a UK Dementia Research Institute Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Rubinsztein earned his MB ChB, BSc(Med)Hons, and PhD degrees from University of Cape Town. He came to Cambridge in 1993 as a Senior Registrar in genetic pathology and was the first person...

Join us as Katie Jackson and Katrina Hamel give a recap of 2019

Coming Down From The Holiday Season - Rerun

Surviving the Holidays Rerun

Arthur Combs, MD is a physician executive and serial entrepreneur. After more than 20 years in clinical practice Art has spent the last 20 years bringing new medical technologies to market, as an officer of 5 successful start-up companies and a Fortune 500 senior executive. His focus has been on non-invasive technologies, although he has consulted across the life science spectrum from pharma to bi...

Dr. Baranger is a Postdoctoral Scholar with Dr. Erika Forbes, at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies how risk factors for psychopathology - particularly early life stress and genetic risk - influence brain development. His work has so far focused on brain structure and reward processing, with an emphasis on better understanding the neurobiology of substance use and depression. He completed hi...

Dr. Jim DeMesa is the Chief Executive Officer of Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals (“EHP”). Dr. DeMesa has 30 years of experience in biotechnology and pharmaceutical leadership, product development and clinical and regulatory management. He is a former practicing physician, CEO of two public biotech companies, and a board member of several biotech companies. Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals is a clinic...

Sonia Slevinski, MS, NCC, is a research manager and has been with the Peg Nopoulos Laboratory since 2008. Slevinski studied sociology and counseling psychology and is a National Certified Counselor (NCC). She worked in community and inpatient mental health services for ten years before joining the Nopoulos Lab as a research associate. She became the coordinator for the Kids-HD study in 2011, manag...