Updates: COVID and Beyond
The eighth in a series of moderated UCSF Town Halls reviewing our current understanding of how COVID-19 might impact people living with Multiple Sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
5:30-6:30pm (PDT)
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Advance Registration
To secure your spot, please register in advance. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Submitting Questions
While live questions will be allowed via Zoom, we invite you to submit questions beforehand using the provided link below:
SUBMIT A QUESTION
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Facilitator and Speaker
Ari Green, MD, MCR
Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Division Chief, Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology
Director, UCSF Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroinflammation Center
Director, Neurodiagnostic Center
INVITED SPEAKER
The Immunogenetics of COVID-19:
Understanding Asymptomatic Infection
Professor, Division of Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology
Departments of Neurology and Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Jill Hollenbach is Professor in the Department of Neurology and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. She was raised in California and completed her undergraduate studies in Physiology and Master’s degree in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. After several years working in public health in the Caribbean and Bay Area, she returned to UC Berkeley for her doctoral studies in Immunology, with an emphasis on population genetics of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system. Throughout her career Dr. Hollenbach’s work has continued to focus on the HLA loci and related systems such as the killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genes in disease association, transplantation and evolutionary studies. She has also been deeply involved in the establishment of community standards and software development for immunogenetic data management and analysis and is a Councilor of the International HLA and Immunogenetics Council and Associate Editor for disease association studies at HLA Journal. Dr. Hollenbach’s laboratory at UCSF applies study of these complex systems to advance efforts to elucidate the genetic basis of underlying immune dysregulation in neurological, autoimmune, and infectious disease.
Additional Topics to Be Covered
Bivalent Vaccine
Sonam Dilwali, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow in Neuroimmunology
Evusheld Re-dosing, Paxlovid and Rebounding Symptoms
Steven Merrill, PharmD, MSCS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Neurology Clinical Pharmacist
General Vaccine Updates
Joanne Guo, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Lead Clinical Provider
Infusion Center Opening at the Weill Neurosciences Building
Lauren Oommen, DO
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Lead Clinical Provider II
Steven Hong, PharmD, BCPS
Infusion Pharmacist
Participating members of the UCSF MS and Neuroinflammation Center Leadership Team:
Joanne Guo, MD
Jeff Gelfand, MD
, MAS
Lauren Oommen, DO
Valerie Block, PT, DPTSc
Sirin Tgamol, Administrative Director
Steven Merrill, PharmD, MSCS
Steven Hong, PharmD, BCPS
Alicia Mallory, RN
Cuquita O'Shea, BS, BA, CCRP
Robin Lincoln, BS
Amy Schwartzburg, NP
Marianne Doyle, LCSW
And the UCSF MS and Neuroinflammation Center Fellows:
Ahmed Abdelhak, MD
Sonam Dilwali, MD, PhD
Josiah Gerdts, MD, PhD
Martineau Louine, MD
Carson Moseley, MD
, PhD
Alyssa Nylander, MD, PhD
Akash Virupakshaiah, MD
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Contact Information
For patient concerns, please contact your physician’s office. The UCSF Multiple Sclerosis & Neuroinflammation Center can be reached at (415)353-2069 or message your provider through UCSF MyChart.
For general/non-clinical inquiries, or technical questions related to the webinar, please email ngb@ucsf.edu in advance.
For any questions you’d like answered during the Town Hall, please refer to the ‘SUBMIT A QUESTION’ link provided above.
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