8th International RASopathies Symposium:
Expanding Research and Care Practice
through Global Collaboration and Advocacy
July 21-23, 2023
In-Person and Virtual Meeting
Denver Marriott Tech Center, Denver, Colorado
Speakers & Moderators
Gregor Andelfinger, MD, PhD, Centre de Recherche du CHU-Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Canada – 2023 Symposium Chair
Annette Bakker, PhD, Chlidren’s Tumor Foundation, New York, NY
Anton Bennett, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT – 2023 Symposium Chair
Sarah Borrie, PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium
Benjamin Briggs, MD, PhD, Uniformed Services University, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Emma Burkitt-Wright, MBChB, PhD, MRCP, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, UK
Ion C. Cirstea, PhD, Ulm University, Germany
Vanessa Fear, BSc (Hons), PhD, Telethon Kids Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia
Bruce Gelb, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, New York
Tamar Green, MD, Stanford University, CA
Karen Gripp, MD, Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, Delaware
Fabrice Jaffré, PhD, Will Cornell Medical College Ithaca, New York
Bonnie Klein-Tasman, PhD, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Maria Kontaridis, MD, PhD, Masonic Medical Research Institute, Utica, New York
Bruce Korf, MD, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Paul Kruszka, MD, MPH, GeneDx, Stamford, Connecticut
Chiara Leoni, MD, PhD, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Pilar Magoulas, MS, CGC, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Anne Marie Messier, Parent Advocate, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Laure Messier, Self Advocate, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Christopher Moertel, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Gina Ney, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute – Shady Grove, Rockville, Maryland
Rene Pierpont, PhD, LP, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis – 2023 Symposium Chair
Carlos Prada, MD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Illinois
Katherine A. Rauen, MD, PhD, University of California at Davis
Renée Roelofs, PhD, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Rodrigue Rossignol, PhD, University of Bordeaux, France
Christine Sevilla, Parent Advocate, Chicago, Illinois
Gigi Sevilla, Self Advocate, Chicago, Illinois
Suma Shankar, MD, PhD, University of California at Davis
Ryan D. Sheedy, Dad, Caregiver & Founder, Centerton, Arkansas
Keir Shiels, MA, MB, BChir, MRCPCH, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, England
David A. Stevenson, MD, Stanford University, California
Elliot Stieglitz, MD, UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA
Daochun Sun, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Dagmar Tiemens, PhD Candidate, Parent Advocate, Radboud Univesity Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Dutch Noonan Syndrome Foundation, The Netherlands
Forest White, PhD, MIT Biological Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ellen Wingbermühle, PhD, Vincent van Gogh Institute fo Psychiatry, Venray, Netherlands
Cordula Wolf, MD, German Heart Center Munich, Technical university Munich, Germany
Martin Zenker, MD, Otto von Guericke Univesität Magdeburg, Germany
