Heart Health: Understanding DM Cardiac Symptoms with Saman Nazarian, MD, PhD

This session explains how myotonic dystrophy may impact your heart and provides an overview of the cardiac electrical system, common symptoms associated with conduction problems, and preventative measures.

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Exercise, Nutrition & Speech with Katy Eichinger, PhD, DPT, Leslie Vnenchak, MA, CCC-SLP, and Robin Meyers, RD, MPH, LDN

This rehabilitation panel reviews current research and strategies for managing DM symptoms through exercise, speech and nutrition.

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Financial Planning & DM with Pat Bergmaier, CFP®, ChSNC

This session reviews financial planning including government benefits, special needs trusts and wills, social security, and more.

Have more financial planning questions? Connect with Pat on LinkedIn.

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Join Certified Genetic Counselor Tiffany Grider from the University of Iowa for an recorded webinar on genetic testing. Topics include:

+ The underlying genetic cause of myotonic dystrophy type 1.
+ How this genetic cause leads to so many different medical problems including muscle weakness.
+ Inheritance, the risks for congenital myotonic dystrophy and the genetic basis for the more severe symptoms.
+ Different types of genetic testing including diagnostic, presymptomatic, and prenatal.
+ Research being done for gene therapies.

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Dr. Jacinda Sampson, joined by Dr. Ian Bowler, presents on the complications experienced by people living with myotonic dystrophy when they are subjected to anesthesia and, as importantly, other pain medications that can create similar complications and risks. This is critically important information for every DM family member and attending clinician to know. From the 2017 MDF Annual Conference.

Dr. Karen Blakemore, M.D., director of prenatal genetics at the Prenatal Diagnostic Center in the Johns Hopkins Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Julie Cohen, certified genetic counselor in the Center for Genetic Muscle Disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, and Alice Schindler, MS, genetic counselor at the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), provide a comprehensive overview of family planning strategies and considerations for families living with myotonic dystrophy – at the 2016 MDF Annual Conference.