Month: March 2025

Register for our 2025 Midwives Conference!

Posted on by Kelly Cullen

Birth & Beyond: Tools & Advances in Maternal & Newborn Care Conference

Clinic for Special Children’s 2025 Midwife Conference
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
at the Clinic for Special Children in Gordonville, PA

*Advance registration deadline is Wednesday, April 30th*

Join us for a full-day, CME-eligible conference, which will bring together midwives who work with families at risk for rare genetic disorders. Learn more about genetic testing that impacts prenatal care, genetic conditions that can affect both mother and baby, newborn screening for hearing loss, and much more. Meet with other local prenatal health professionals to discuss ways to collectively deliver the best care for pregnant women and infants.

 

 

View the full conference brochure and agenda HERE

Register below with your credit card
or print and mail your registration form and check:

Checks made payable to: ‘Clinic for Special Children’
Mail to: Clinic for Special Children, Attn: Events, PO Box 500, Intercourse, PA 17534

2025 Midwives Conference Registration

Please fill out the form below and complete payment to register for the conference. Each attendee must be individually registered.

  • If you select 'yes' you will receive a separate email from our Event Manager, Kelly Woodson, with instructions on how to sign up to receive credits.
    If you select 'virtually' you will receive a separate email from our Event Manager, Kelly Woodson, with instructions on how to join the conference virtually.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

 

 

For additional questions about our conference, please contact:
Kelly Woodson, Events Manager
E-mail: events@clinicforspecialchildren.org
Phone: 717-687-9407

Downloadable 2025 Events Calendar

Posted on by Kelly Cullen

From auctions to online fundraisers to a community dinner, we hope that you can join us for a 2025 Clinic for Special Children event!

All events benefit the Clinic’s mission of providing accessible, affordable, and compassionate care to children and adults with rare genetic disorders.

Click HERE or on the image below to download our 2025 events calendar!

 

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Gene Therapy for Classic Maple Syrup Urine Disease Shows Promise in Mice & Cow Models

Posted on by Kelly Cullen

In a published paper released today in Science Translational Medicine, Clinic for Special Children researchers and scientists from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School developed a dual-function gene replacement therapy that demonstrated restored metabolic activity in mice and a cow model of the two common genetic forms of maple syrup urine disease.

 

Read the paper HERE

Read the press release HERE