UC San Francisco (Video)

As part of the 2024 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference, Dr. Eric Small discusses systemic therapy treatment in advanced prostate cancer, including AR-targeted therapy. The presentation includes definitions of disease states, categories of treatment types, and standards in treatment selection.

Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39768]

As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Jennifer Martelle Tu is a neurologist with a special interest in movement disorders. She provides a comprehensive update on the care of children and youth with Rett Syndrome, a rare progressive neurological disease. She emphasizes the importance of dedicated multidisciplinary clinics and discusses state of the art treatments, such as the recently FDA approved trofinetide, as well as gene therapy. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39752]

As part of the 2024 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference, Dr. David Oh presents on the use of immunotherapy as a treatment in advanced prostate cancer, including describing how immunotherapy works, possible side effects, and options available currently.

Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39770]

As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Elizabeth Vosseller and Ian Nordling demonstrate techniques for helping autistic people who cannot use speech reliably to communicate. They discuss the neuroscience behind techniques for helping people with sensory and movement differences to use spelling and typing to communicate. Ian Nordling, a nonspeaking autistic man, provides insights into the lived experience of learning to communicate. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39751]

As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Ellen Elias is a pediatrician and geneticist who has dedicated her career to the care of children and youth with medical complexity and developmental disabilities. She discusses sexuality and the need for education, normalization and anticipatory preventive care in youth and adults with disabilities. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39753]

As part of the 2024 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference, Dr. Matthew Cooperberg discusses surgery as treatment for localized prostate cancer, including risk stratification, how prostatectomy is performed, surgery outcomes and potential side effects.

Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39758]

As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Vikram Jaswal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, presents research using objective measurements of eye gaze and speed of movements. He demonstrates that prompting by supporters is not a plausible explanation for the success nonspeaking autistic people have had communicating using letterboards held by a trained Communication Regulation Partner. He also presents data that nonspeaking autistic people can tolerate Augmentative Reality headsets and engage with virtual buttons to play games and point to letters on a virtual letterboard. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39750]

As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Vivian Huan, Senior Policy Attorney of Disability Rights California, presents key findings and recommendations regarding racial disparities in access to services and funding in California for people in the developmental disability system. After investments were made to reduce disparities, they worsened. Huan presents strategies that may work moving forward. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39741]

As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Megumi Okumura, Medical Director of the newly established UCSF Health Pediatric to Adult Transitions Program, describes a roadmap for health care transition, the process of moving from a child/family centered to an adult/patient centered model of health care; and introduces tools from a recently updated Got Transition, a collaborative effort by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Physicians. She emphasizes the need to begin the transition process early and the importance of patients, caregivers, clinicians and agencies to work together to address barriers and to assure effective transition and transfer of care. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39749]

As part of the 2024 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference, Drs. Julian Hong and Eric Small discuss oligometastatic prostate cancer and its management with radiation and systemic therapies.

Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39766]