Synopsis:Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a unique developmental disability resulting from abnormalities of the 15q11-q13 region of chromosome 15. Children and adults with PWS have a recognizable and distinct facial, physical, and neuro-behavioural phenotype. PWS is characterised by abnormalities in aspects of neuromotor, endocrine, metabolic, psychiatric, social, and cognitive development. A PWS multidisciplinary clinic was established at RCH in the mid 1980’s. This clinic provides infants, children and adolescents with access to a range of clinicians and services, and additionally provides them and their families an opportunity to meet and share their experience and expertise.

The Grand Round will focus on the history of PWS, the management of patients with PWS at RCH, and the research opportunities created by the Victorian PWS register.

Speakers:

Dr Margaret Rowell, Paediatrician, Developmental Medicine.

Ms Nicola Watt, Senior Clinician, Social Work Department, RCH

Dr Matt Sabin,Consultant, Endocrinology and Diabetes, and weight Management Service at RCH, Senior Research Fellow at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Physiology at Monash University

Dr Chidambaram Prakash, Authorised Psychiatrist, The Royal Children’s Hospital Principal Psychiatrist Hospital Program of the Integrated Mental Health Program

Ms Tess Lionti, Research Assistant, Developmental Disability & Rehabilitation Research, Critical Care & Neurosciences Murdoch Childrens Research Institute