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Dr. Lesley Ann Saketkoo presented at the Scleroderma Education Day Webinar on February 27, 2021 for the Scleroderma Foundation Texas Bluebonnet Chapter.
Her session titled "Be Friending the Scleroderma Gut" includes:
* Healing through essential self-management
* Four Pillars of Medicine
* Being the pilot of your health
* The GUT likes smooth, soothed and slow
* Attention, Creativity, Curiosity, Self-Sensitivity
* GI Comfort Influences more than GI Nutrition … Vise Versa
* Improve: Symptoms / Comfort / Ease; Safety; Nutrition; Overall Health
Lesley Ann Saketkoo, MD, MPH bio:
* Doctor of the Year by the Scleroderma Foundation
* The award recognizes leadership and commitment to the
community battling scleroderma, a disabling and
life-limiting multi-organ autoimmune disease with
progressive lung, heart, kidney, gastrointestinal tract and/or vascular involvement.
* In 2011, established the Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center between Tulane and Louisiana State University, which received international recognition as a “center of excellence” by the European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group (EUSTAR), the Scleroderma Foundation, and the Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium (SCTC).
* Associate professor of clinical medicine at Tulane University
School of Medicine,
* Internationally recognized researcher, educator and
clinician in scleroderma/systemic sclerosis, sarcoidosis, myositis, pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung disease
* Saketkoo also established the Pulmonary Hypertension clinic program at LSU, which is now the LSU-Tulane collaborative Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center at University Medical Center, a Pulmonary Hypertension Association certified center of excellence, where she is co-director.
Scleroderma Foundation Texas Bluebonnet Chapter
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