Penn Medicine Penn Neuromuscular Symposium 2025
Target Audience
Learning Objectives
- Describe novel treatment in myasthenia gravis
- Discuss new methods to diagnose and treat neuropathy in Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis.
- Discuss different type of demyelinating neuropathies and how to manage them
- Describe novel treatments for people with SMA and ALS
- Discuss management of neuromuscular complications of vasculitis
- Apply antibody testing in inflammatory myopathies and describe novel therapies for inflammatory myopathies
- Discuss gene therapy for hereditary myopathies
- Discuss application of car-T in autoimmune neuromuscular disorders
- Exploring novel therapies including immunomodulation and gene therapy
- Reviewing real-world clinical cases from Penn’s neuromuscular clinic
- Engaging in interactive discussions on diagnostics and treatment strategies
+ Topics:
- 8:30AM – 9:00AM Update on SMA and ALS Treatments Lauren Elman, MD
- 9:00AM – 9:30AM Novel Therapies in CIDP, GBS and MMN Rami Massie, MD
- 9:30AM – 9:50AM Case Presentations Rebecca Hsu, MD
- 9:50AM – 10:10AM Break
- 10:10AM – 10:50AM Updates in Myasthenia Gravis Bird Shawn, MD
- 10:50AM – 11:10AM Serum Neurofilament Light Chain in Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy Chafic Karam, MD
- 11:10AM – 11:30AM Updates in Diagnosis and Management of Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis Michelle Kaku, MD
- 11:30AM – 11:50AM Case Presentations Michael Baer, MD
- 11:50AM – 12:50PM Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION
- 12:50PM – 1:20PM ARTHUR ASBURY ENDOWMENT LECTURE: A. Gordon Smith, MD
- 1:20PM – 1:40PM Case Presentations Paul T Mcintosh, MD
- 1:40PM – 2:10PM Update in Treatment of Hereditary Myopathies Colin Quinn, MD
- 2:10PM – 2:20PM Break
- 2:20PM – 2:40PM Updates in the Management of Vasculitis Naomi Amudala, CRNP RN
- 2:40PM – 3:00PM Car-T in Auto-immune Disorders Nasheed Hossain, MD
- 3:00PM – 3:10PM Questions & Wrap Up




