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Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Conference Set for May 5


 

The 2017 Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) Education Conference will take place on May 5 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore. Online registration will open January 9.

The keynote speaker will be Halima Amjad, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, whose father was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia around the time she was graduating from medical school in 2009. Other speakers will include physicians, nurses, and social workers from Johns Hopkins, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson University. Additional information is available on the AFTD website.

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