Saturday, June 12, 2021
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Pacific
Target Audience: Patients with vasculitis who identify as women.
Description: This conference is focused on women with vasculitis. The conference will provide helpful information about the disease impact of vasculitis for women, bone health, finding balance, and care team dynamics-assertiveness training.
Please note: You must have access to a computer/tablet/mobile device and the Internet to participate. Instructions for login will be provided prior to the event via email alerts.
FREE TO ATTEND!
Please register in advance for this conference: Click here.
The webinar will also be recorded and after editing, will be available for viewing.
Preliminary Schedule
Time PST | Topic | Presenter |
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions | Joyce A. Kullman, Executive Director
Kalen Young, MA, Director of Communications & Development |
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. |
V is for …Vasculitis: Disease Impact on Women | Alicia Rodriguez-Pla, MD Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona |
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Dream Team: Dynamics with Assertiveness Training to Create a Strong Care Team | Jenn Gordon, PhD Patient-Partner, VPPRN and the EGPA Registry |
12:30 p.m. – 12:40 p.m. | BREAK | |
12:40 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. |
Bad to the Bone: Bone Health for Women | Julie McGregor, MD Integrative Medical Clinic of North Carolina |
1:10 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. |
Panel Introductions | Kalen Young, MA |
1:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |
Pieces of Mind: Mental Health and the emotional impact of vasculitis | Stacey Ivitis, MSW RSW Registered Social WorkerVelma Mockett, PhD INDS, RCC, MTC Blink Mental Health Services |
1:50 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. |
Fuel Your Energy: Finding Balance; learning to be a patient, a parent, a partner, or the many roles women assume without perfection. | Sara Amodio, MSW, EdD, President, VF Board of Directors |
2:20 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Thank You and Closing Comments | Joyce A. Kullman Kalen Young, MA |