News & Events
Annual Conference 2006
GENERAL PROGRAM
8:30
Registration and Gluten-Free Continental Breakfast
9:15
Welcome and Opening of Conference
Marvin Berman, President
Elaine Monarch, Executive Director
Carrie Owen, CDF Board Member – Team GlutenFree™
Alessio Fasano, M.D. – Director, Center For Celiac Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore
What the future holds for Celiac Disease; current, and upcoming research
Peter Green, M.D. – Director, Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, New York
Celiac Disease – A Hidden Epidemic
Refreshment Break and Exhibits
Kim Koeller & Robert LaFrance – Let’s Eat Out! Around the corner and around the world.
12:00
- Gluten-Free Lunch & Beer Tasting
- Vendor Displays
- *Mini Sessions
- Book/CD Sales and Book Signing with authors:
- Peter Green, MD
- Michelle Pietzak, MD
- Kim Koeller and Robert LaFrance
1:30
Raffle Drawing - Auditorium
Andrea Levario, J.D. Executive Director, ACDA - Update on the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA) and the American Celiac Disease Alliance
Michelle Pietzak, M. D., Director, Center For Celiac Research, West and “The Gluten-Free MD”
Probiotics and Celiac Disease
Refreshment Break and Exhibits
Raffle Drawing - Auditorium
Bob Anderson, MB, ChB, PhD, FRACP, Consultant Gastroenterologist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital - A vaccine for celiac disease
Q & A with the Speakers
CHILDREN’S PROGRAM (Palm Room)
- Gluten-free diet basics, children’s question/answer session
- Michelle Pietzak, M.D., Alicia Calvo, R.D.
- Q & A with Young Adult Celiacs
- Matt Schames, Leah Resnick and Ruth Gonzalez
*Mini Sessions (see back of program for room/location)
