The Stanford Pituitary Center invites patients with pituitary disease, their family and friends to Stanford’s Pituitary Patient Education Day!
May 18, 2019 at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel
625 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94301Â
USA
Registration Contact:
Jennie Visitacion
E:Â JennieV@Stanford.edu
Ph: 650-725-4715
Topics and Breakout Sessions:
- Function of the pituitary gland
- General review of pituitary tumors
- Endoscopic endonasal surgery for pituitary tumors
- Quality of life after endonasal surgery
- Radiation therapy for pituitary tumors
- Cushing’s Disease, prolactinoma, and acromegaly
- 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
