HPS New York Conference Update: Dr. James White to speak

As we nail down various pieces of the agenda for the HPS Family Conference I’ll try my best to let you know what you can expect at this year’s conference (barring a catastrophe like the make-up lady not showing up last year – grin!) I’m very honored and pleased to announce that Dr. James White will speak at this year’s conference.

Dr. White is the hematologist who performs the electron microscope diagnostic testing for Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome. Most of us that have an HPS diagnosis have had our blood shipped off to Dr. White at the University of Minnesota at some stage.

Dr. White was one of the first HPS researchers. He actually had the honor to meet and get to know Dr. Hermansky and Dr. Pudlak, the two Czech doctors who originally identified the syndrome in 1959. He’ll share with us some of our “HPS culture” to help us better appreciate where HPS research has been, and where it is going. I’ve talked to Dr. White several times on the phone, but I’ve never met him personally. I’m really looking forward to it.

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Kathryn said…

OH! How exciting! Makes me want to go just for that! :=)

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