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AMYLOIDOSIS SUPPORT GROUP MEETING
Contact Person: Muriel muriel@finkelsupply.com or agrossberg@aol.com
Date: February 20, 2010
Time: 9am to 2:30pm (flexible - closing time light breakfast and lunch served)
Location: 4th Floor, Room 482,
Mount Sinai Hospital
1425 Madison Ave (NE corner of Madison and 98th)
Manhattan, NYC
Comments: Dr. David Vesole – Hackensack and
Dr. Robert Kyle – Mayo/Rochester

http://myeloma.org/pdfs/MT_5.08.pdf
http://www.rowbobrow.com/image/2008SpringTorch.pdf
http://www.freelite.co.uk/interviewwithrobertkyl-114.asp
http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/hematologic_malignancies/kyle.cfm
http://www.hematology.org/education/legends/Kyle/index.cfm
http://myeloma.org/main.jsp?source=link&source_link_id=206&type=article&tab_id=1&menu_id=0&id=123

Notes on previous meetings: Our Fall 009 Guest Dr. Joseph Mikhael – Mayo/Phoenix was wonderful and full of energy.


Our June 6 Guest – Dr. Angela Dispenzieri – Mayo/Rochester was enjoyed and appreciated by all..


Our Guest on Feb.22, 2009 was Dr. Peter Gorevic and other specialists in amyloidosis including a neurologist and a hematologist.
http://www.bu.edu/amyloid/events/x-symposium.html
Interview with CNN


Saturday October 18, 2008 our guest wasDr. Jeffrey Zonder
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00520767?term=amyloidosis+zonder&rank=1


Our June 2008 guest was Dr. Angela Dispenzieri from Mayo/Rochester.
http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/staff/dispenzieri_a.cfm



Our Guest – Dr. John Berk from Boston University Medical Center was brilliant, down to earth and so caring and kind….we hope he returns to the Big Apple Soon…

http://www.bu.edu/amyloid/doctors/index.html

http://www.bu.edu/amyloid/doctors/trials/index.html

Dr. Angela Dispenzieri – Mayo/Rochester was wonderful and we had Dr. Jonathan Bromberg the Transplant Coordinator of Mt.Sinai drop by along with Dr. Del Rio.


We thank Dr. Comenzo so much for your kindness, generosity and time that he so willingly gave to us at our New York Support Meeting Today…….We learned a lot and gained much support from his wonderful spirit. We had 49 people (cousin Kenny counted:=) and all were so grateful.



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