Sunday, February 28, 2010, 7:00 P.M. EST

An Overview of Prader-Willi Syndrome
Presented by Dr. Suzanne Cassidy

This webinar is specifically geared to the parents of young children and those that have been recently diagnosed.

Suzanne B. Cassidy, M.D., is currently a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a board certified Clinical Geneticist and Pediatrician whose career includes doing patient care, teaching for medical students, residents and advanced trainees, and clinical research mainly focused on Prader-Willi syndrome. She has also been the director of clinical genetics divisions at three institutions in the past. She has conducted multi-disciplinary specialty clinics for PWS since 1981 and has published widely on her clinical observations and research on PWS. She has been the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) in the past, and remains on that board. And she has been the professional delegate to IPWSO from the USA since IPWSO was established. She has helped to organize several IPWSO and PWSA (USA) Scientific Conferences, and is a frequent speaker about PWS at local, regional, national and international educational and medical conferences related to PWS.

How long will the session last?
Each webinar will last approximately one hour and there will be a time for questions at the end of the presentation.

What is needed to participate?
In addition to a telephone with long distance calling capabilities, you will need the following to participate:

For PC-based participants:

• Internet Explorer® 6.0 or newer, Mozilla® Firefox® 2.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
• Windows® 2000, XP, 2003 Server or Vista
• Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection
• Minimum of Pentium® class 1GHz CPU with 512 MB of RAM (recommended) (2 GB of RAM for Windows® Vista)

For Mac-based participants:

• Safari™ 3.0 or newer, Firefox® 2.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
• Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
• PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor (512 MB of RAM or better recommended)
• Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection

How do I register?
The registration period for each webinar will be approximately 30 days in advance. We will provide those details in a subsequent e-mail. This information will also be available on the PWSA (USA) website.

Is there a cost to participate?
We are pleased to be able to provide these seminars to you for a minimal cost of $35 each. Consider the bargain—NO WAITING, no travel, no time constraints! Learn from the comfort of your own home!

Because we know there is so much to learn, PWSA (USA) strives to find ways to teach you valuable lessons about PWS.