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22 November, 2011 Training Opportunity:  The North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC) is soliciting applications for a clinical and research fellowship. The NAMDC fellowship is open to clinicians, senior post-doctoral scientists, junior faculty, and established investigators who wish to develop or refocus their careers on clinical care and research in mitochondrial disease.  This NIH-funded fellowship includes training experience at the University of California San Diego (Dr. Richard Haas), Columbia University Medical Center (Dr. Michio Hirano), The University of Washington (Dr. Russ Saneto), University of Hamilton (Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky), The Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University (Dr. Sumit Parikh), The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Dr. Marni Falk), and University of Florida Gainesville (Dr. Peter Stacpoole).
Please see information posted here.
31 October, 2011 Symposium:  Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is in the process of planning a new educational symposium and would like to invite the SIMD membership. The conference is titled "Challenging the Paradigms: Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Disease" and will be held May 4-5, 2012 in Pittsburgh.
Please see the flyer posted here.
4 October, 2011 Symposium:  Monogenic Disorders of Insulin Secretion: Congenital Hyperinsulinism and Neonatal Diabetes
Thursday March 15 and Friday, March 16, 2012.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Drs. Charles Stanley and Diva DeLeon, Symposium Directors.
Please refer to their web site. information posted here.