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
The original page is getting very slow loading, so I’ve moved my own posts to this newer blog.
As always, anyone who wants to join me can share their blog URL with me and I’ll add it to the links on the right side, so whenever a new post comes up, it will show up automatically.
If the blogs are on WordPress, I try to reblog them all to get even more exposure on the blog, on Twitter and on Facebook at Cushings Help Organization, Inc. If you have photos, and you give me permission, I’ll add them to the Pinterest page for Cushing’s Help.
The Cushingâs Awareness Challenge is almost upon us again!
Do you blog? Want to get started?
Since April 8 is Cushingâs Awareness Day, several people got their heads together to create the Eighth Annual Cushingâs Awareness Blogging Challenge.
All you have to do is blog about something Cushingâs related for the 30 days of April.
There will also be a logo for your blog to show youâve participated.
The more people who participate, the more the word will get out about Cushingâs.
Suggested topics â or add your own!
In what ways have Cushingâs made you a better person?
What have you learned about the medical community since you have become sick?
If you had one chance to speak to an endocrinologist association meeting, what would you tell them about Cushingâs patients?
What would you tell the friends and family of another Cushingâs patient in order to garner more emotional support for your friend? challenge with Cushingâs? How have you overcome challenges? Stuff like that.
I have Cushingâs DiseaseâŚ.(personal synopsis)
How I found out I have Cushingâs
What is Cushingâs Disease/Syndrome? (Personal variation, i.e. adrenal or pituitary or ectopic, etc.)
My challenges with Cushingâs
Overcoming challenges with Cushingâs (could include any challenges)
If I could speak to an endocrinologist organization, I would tell themâŚ.
What would I tell others trying to be diagnosed?
What would I tell families of those who are sick with Cushingâs?
Treatments Iâve gone through to try to be cured/treatments I may have to go through to be cured.
What will happen if Iâm not cured?
I write about my health becauseâŚ
10 Things I Couldnât Live Without.
My Dream Day.
What I learned the hard way
Miracle Cure. (Write a news-style article on a miracle cure. Whatâs the cure? How do you get the cure? Be sure to include a disclaimer)
Give yourself, your condition, or your health focus a mascot. Is it a real person? Fictional? Mythical being? Describe them. Bonus points if you provide a visual!
5 Challenges & 5 Small Victories.
The First Time IâŚ
Make a word cloud or tree with a list of words that come to mind when you think about your blog, health, or interests. Use a thesaurus to make it branch more.
How much money have you spent on Cushingâs, or, How did Cushingâs impact your life financially?
Why do you think Cushingâs may not be as rare as doctors believe?
What is your theory about what causes Cushingâs?
How has Cushingâs altered the trajectory of your life? What would you have done? Who would you have been
What three things has Cushingâs stolen from you? What do you miss the most? What can you do in your Cushingâs life to still achieve any of those goals?
What new goals did Cushingâs bring to you?
How do you cope?
What do you do to improve your quality of life as you fight Cushingâs?
How Cushingâs affects children and their families
A possible Helpful Doctor. Anyone have any feedback?
Little Rock-based Arkansas Neuroscience Institute Co-founder and Director Ali Krisht, MD, received the 2019 Herbert Olivecrona Award for his neurosurgery work, Arkansas Money & Politics reports.
What you should know:
1. Dr. Krisht earned the honor â sometimes known as the Nobel Prize for neurosurgery â for his cerebrovascular, pituitary and skull base tumor surgery work.
2. He will receive the honor at the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society meeting, May 19-20 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he will also deliver the conference’s Olivecrona lecture.
3. Dr. Krisht is a renowned neurosurgeon. He earned his medical degree from Beirut, Lebanon-based American University of Beirut and completed a residency at Atlanta-based Emory University.
4. He is Contemporary Neurosurgery’s chief editor and served as Pituitary Disorders: Comprehensive Management’s main editor.
5. Dr. Krisht has written 20 book chapters and 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has delivered more than 170 lectures and has directed more than 40 workshops and hands-on courses.
