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Run Time:
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 7:30am
Duration:
60-minutes
CME Credits:
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Cost:
Free
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Jennifer Yang, MD

Mitochondrial Diseases: an Overview of Clinical Phenotypes and Treatment Landscape

Led By
Jennifer Yang, MD

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize the most common clinical presentation of mitochondrial disease in children and adults
  • Describe the diagnostic considerations for mitochondrial disease
  • Understand the current treatment approaches and emerging treatments for mitochondrial disease

About this presenter:

Jennifer Yang, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurosciences
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego

Dr. Jennifer Yang is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurosciences and Co-Director of the Neurometabolic and Mitochondrial Disease Clinic in the Division of Pediatric Neurology at UC San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. She completed her medical degree at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, her Child Neurology residency at UC San Diego where she served as Chief Resident, and a fellowship in Neuroimmunology and Neurometabolics at UC San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital. She has formal training in clinical research methods. Dr. Yang specializes in the clinical management of primary mitochondrial disease and genetic white matter diseases. Additionally, she sees pediatric patients with autoimmune and demyelinating disorders. She is a PI and co-investigator in several observational and investigator-initiated studies and industry-sponsored clinical trials in mitochondrial myopathy, Leigh syndrome, MELAS, leukodystrophy, autoimmune encephalitis, and pediatric and adult multiple sclerosis.