Connective Issues Fall 2018

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

CONFERENCE THANKS

HOSTS

Stanford Health Care Kaiser Permanente

SPONSORS PRESENTER

Stanford Health Care

LEADER

Backpack Health Wheeler Family

CONVENER

Strick Family Kaiser Permanente

CONTRIBUTOR Invitae USC Keck School of Medicine CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Lou Arias Pam Austin Maya Brown-Zimmerman Tracey Fitzgerald David Liang, MD, PhD Alix McLean Jennings, LCSW

ON JULY 12, THE FOUNDATION HELD A SPECIAL RECEPTION FOR CRAIG MILLER, MD, STANFORD UNIVERSITY. HOSTED BY NICK AND WHITELEY WHEELER (PICTURED BELOW WITH THEIR DAUGHTER, EMILY), MORE THAN 100 PATIENTS WERE ON-HAND TO HONOR HIM. THE SPEAKERS, WHO ALL HAD THEIR AORTA REPAIRED BY DR. MILLER, INCLUDED (ABOVE, L-R, WITH DR. MILLER) AUSTIN CARLILE, KATE COLLINS, AND ANDREA WITTE.

Craig Miller, MD Stephanie Noe Mitchell Pariani, CGC Sunny Pellone Kaitlyn Smart Matt Solomon, MD

PHOTOGRAPHY Timothy D. Joyce Photography

SAVE THE DATE for our 35th Annual Conference Held in Conjunction with

THE FOUNDATION’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET TOGETHER DURING THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS THE VISION OF THE FOUNDATION AND STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE. THE BOARD ALSO ANNOUNCED ITS NEW BOARD CHAIR, CORY EAVES, PICTURED AT LEFT WITH THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: KAREN MURRAY, IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR, BERT MEDINA, SECRETARY, AND CARYN KAUFFMAN, TREASURER.

July 11–14 2019 Houston, Texas

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