November 09 Nov 09
2024
8 AM - 4 PM PDT
Saturday Sat


For more information

Please contact Jennie Visitacion, course manager, at JennieV@Stanford.edu or 650-497-0511.


Stanford Pituitary Center

Our Center is committed to providing patients precise diagnosis and treatment, safe, gentle and accurate surgery, and a compassionate team approach. 

Event

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

Stanford Hospital- Assembly Hall 500
500 Pasteur Dr
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA

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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

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