DACHDNC February 12-13, 2015

DACHDNC February 12-13, 2015

March 11, 2015

The presentations for the Discretionary Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (DACHDNC) February 2015 meeting are now available.

Day 1

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force – Overview and the transfer of newborn screening topics to the DACHDNC

Iris R. Mabry-Hernandez, MD, MPH
Medical Officer
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Program
Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Pilot Study Workgroup Update
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Jeff Botkin, MD
Committee Member and Chair of the Pilot Study Workgroup

Carla Cuthbert, PhD, FACMG, FCCMG
Chief, Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Tiina Urv, PhD
Program Director
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Branch
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health

Michael Watson, PhD, FACMG
Organizational Representative American College of Medical Genetics

Anne Comeau, PhD
Deputy Director, New England Newborn Screening Program
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UMass Medical School

Laboratory Procedures and Standards Subcommittee Update – Timely Newborn Screening Project and other projects

Kellie Kelm, PhD
Susan Tanksley, PhD

Condition Review Process – Overview

Joseph Bocchini, MD
Committee Chair
Louisiana State University

Evaluating Harms in the Assessment of Net Benefits: A Framework for Newborn Screening Condition Review

Nancy Green, MD
Condition Review Workgroup
Columbia University Medical Center

Condition Review Update – Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)

Alex Kemper, MD, MPH, MS
Condition Review Workgroup
Duke Clinical Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics

Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Scott Grosse, PhD
Senior Health Economist
National Center on Birth Defects and  Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Alex Kemper, MD, MPH, MS
Condition Review Workgroup
Duke Clinical Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics

Lisa Prosser, PhD, MS
Condition Review Workgroup
Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit University of Michigan

 Day 2

Final Condition Review of Mucopolysaccharidosis I

Alex Kemper, MD, MPH, MS
Condition Review Workgroup
Duke Clinical Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics

Committee Review of Mucopolysaccharidosis I

Jeff Botkin, MD, MPH
Committee Member
University of Utah

Stephen McDonough, MD
Committee Member
Sanford Health Bismarck