2024
8 AM - 4 PM PDT
Saturday Sat
Stanford Pituitary Center
Our Center is committed to providing patients precise diagnosis and treatment, safe, gentle and accurate surgery, and a compassionate team approach.
2024 Pituitary Patient Ed Day
Join Stanford Health Care physicians, as well as patients with pituitary disease and their family and friends, to learn about pituitary disease, the latest medical treatments and surgical innovations, and more.
Topics and Breakout Sessions:
- Function of the pituitary gland
- General review of pituitary tumors
- Endoscopic endonasal surgery for pituitary tumors
- Innovations in endoscopic cavernous sinus surgery
- Remission rates and outcomes at Stanford Pituitary Center
- Quality of life after endonasal surgery
- Radiation therapy for pituitary tumors
- Cushing’s disease, prolactinoma, and acromegaly
- Hypopituitarism therapy and growth hormone deficiency
Location
500 Pasteur Dr
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
Stanford Hospital- Assembly Hall 500
500 Pasteur DrPalo Alto, CA 94304
Course Directors
Julia Chang, MD
Course Co-Director
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, MD, FACS
Course Co-Director
Professor of Neurosurgery, and by Courtesy, of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Co-Director, Stanford Skull Base Surgery Program
Invited Pituitary Community Guest Speakers
Gretchen Jordan
Associate Director, Cushings Support & Research Foundation
Jill Sisco
President, Acromegaly Community
Stanford Speakers
Noel Ayoub, MD, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
Olivia Chu, NP
Nurse Practitioner, Neurosurgery
Robert Dodd, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS)
Andrew Hoffman, MD
Professor of Medicine , Endocrinology, Emeritus
Elham Rahimy, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy
Erin Wipff, RN
Nurse Practitioner, Neurosurgery