Committees

Organizing Committee

  • Anne Bassett, Director, Clinical Genetics Research Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Medical Advisory Board, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.; Program Chair, The Eighth Biennial International 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting
  • Carol Cavana, President and Founding Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc., Matawan, NJ, USA
  • Christina Mannices, Manager Medical Staff Affairs, CME, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Donna M. McDonald-McGinn, Associate Director, Clinical Genetics Center; Program Director, The “22q and You” Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Founding Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.; Secretary General, The Eighth Biennial International 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting; Conference Chair, The 2nd Biennial 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Swati Patel, Undergraduate Student, Drexel University; Intern, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Wendy Rose, Secretary and Founding Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc., Moorestown, NJ, USA
  • Elizabeth Utsch-George, CME Conference Planner, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
  • Fred Weiner, Executive Director, Dragonfly Forest, Conshohocken, PA;  Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.

Family Program Committee

  • Anne Bassett, Director, Clinical Genetics Research Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Medical Advisory Board, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.; Program Chair, The Eighth Biennial International 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting
  • Michelle Breedlove Sells, Director of Development and Community Outreach, “The Ryan and Jenny Dempster Family Foundation”, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Carol Cavana, President and Founding Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc., Matawan, NJ, USA
  • Karlene Coleman, RN, MN, Certified Genetic Counselor, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Ryan and Jenny Dempster, President and Vice President of “The Ryan and Jenny Dempster Family Foundation”, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Mindy Dodge, PRA, Clinic Coordinator, Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Specialty Clinic, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
  • Barb Hass-Givler, MEd, BCBA, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Education Specialist, Genetic Services at Elwyn, PA, USA
  • Shelia Kambin, Attending Physician, Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy,  The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA; Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.
  • Maria Kamper, President, VCFS 22q11 Foundation, Charlton, Australia
  • Daniella Krijger, Founder and President, Hoezo Anders Foundation; Author of Anders; Former Member,22q11.2 Support Network, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Anne Lawlor, 22q Ireland Support Group, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
  • Donna M. McDonald-McGinn, Associate Director, Clinical Genetics Center; Program Director, The “22q and You” Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Founding Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.; Secretary General, The Eighth Biennial International 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting; Conference Chair, The 2nd Biennial 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Melissa K. Maisenbacher, MS, CGC, Natera, Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA
  • Silvia Riccio, Italian Aide 22 Support Group, Rome, Italy
  • Wendy Rose, Secretary and Founding Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc., Moorestown, NJ
  • Stephan Schmid, Founder and President, Kids-22q11 e.v., Kempten, Germany
  • Jill Stein, Paradise Valley, AZ, USA
  • Stephanie St-Pierre, Founder, Chromosome 22 Central, Timmins, Ontario, Canada
  • Fred Weiner, Executive Director, Dragonfly Forest, Conshohocken, PA; Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.
  • Julie Wooton, Founder and President, Max Appeal, Wollaston Stourbridge, England; Conference Chair, The 7th Biennial 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting, Coventry, England

Professional Program Committee

  • Anne Bassett, Director, Clinical Genetics Research Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Medical Advisory Board, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.; Program Chair, The Eighth Biennial International 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting
  • Koenraad Devriendt, Center for Human Genetics, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
  • Maria Cristina Digilio, Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatric Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, and Cytogenetics, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
  • Alex Forsyth, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London, UK
  • Sixto García-Miñaúr, Department of Clinical Genetics, Institute of Medical and Molecular Genetics, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
  • Alex Habel, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London, UK
  • Hiroshi Kawame, Medical Director, Master’s Program in Genetic Counseling Professor; Department of Genetic Counseling, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
  •  Bruno Marino, Professor of Pediatrics; Chief Division of Pediatric Cardiology; Director of Department of Pediatrics, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Conference Chair, The 3rd Biennial 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting, Rome, Italy
  • Donna M. McDonald-McGinn, Associate Director, Clinical Genetics Center; Program Director, The “22q and You” Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Founding Board Member, The International 22q11.2 Foundation, Inc.; Secretary General, The Eighth Biennial International 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting; Conference Chair, The 2nd Biennial 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Bernice Morrow, Professor, Director of Division of Human Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
  • Sólveig Óskarsdóttir, Consultant in Pediatrics, The Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Christina Persson, Department of LogoPedics & Phoniatrics, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Nicole Philip, Department of Medical Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of la Timone, Marseille, France; Conference Chair, The 5th Biennial 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting, Marseilles, France
  • Peter Scambler,  Molecular Medicine Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
  • Kathleen Sullivan, Professor of Pediatrics; University of Pennsylvania, Medical School; Chief, Division of Allergy Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Damian Heine Suñer, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Hospital Son Espases, Palma, Spain
  • Ann Swillen, Professor, Center of Human Genetics, University Hospital of Gasthuisberg; Department of Human Genetics, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • Nancy Unanue, Endocrinology and Genetics Unit, Children’s, Hospital Clinico San Borja Arriarán; Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, University of Chile, Clinica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
  • Jacob Vorstman, Assistant Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychiatry Genetics, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University of Medical Center Utrecht; Conference Chair, The 6th Biennial 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Meeting, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2012 Auction Committee

  • Anne Bassett, Toronto, Canada
  • Carol Cavana, Matawan, NJ, USA
  • Colleen Ciak, Delran, NJ, USA
  • Sheila Kambin, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Melissa K. Maisenbacher, Redwood City, CA, USA
  • Donna M. McDonald-McGinn, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Swati Patel, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Wendy Rose, Moorestown, NJ, USA
  • Kathleen Sullivan, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Joe Uccello, Colchester, CT, USA
  • Paula Uccello, Colchester, CT, USA