Keynote Speaker
Julie Moran, DO
Geriatrician, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Consultant, Tewksbury Hospital, Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Sujata Bardhan, MS, PhD
Program Director, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Branch, The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ruth Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Annie Cohen, PhD
Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Consortium-Down Syndrome (ABC-DS), University of Pittsburgh
Clorinda “Clo” Cottrell, LICSW, CDCP
Social Worker, Care Manager, Certified Dementia Care Partner
John & Mark X. Cronin
Co-Founders & Chief Happiness Officer, John’s Crazy Socks & Abilities Rising
Katie Frank, PhD, OTR/L
Senior Occupational Therapist, Advocate Medical Group Adult Down Syndrome Center
Jeff Gentry
Sr. Director of Disability Services, JVS Boston; President, Massachusetts Association of People Supporting Employment First
Angela Lombardo, MSW
Down Syndrome Program Manager, LEND Training Director, Boston Children's Hospital
Sarah Mann, PT, DPT, MBA, NSCA-CPT
Physical Therapist, Mann Method Therapy Network, Arvada, CO
Kelly Meyers, MA, CCC-SLP
Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management, Pathfinder Village, Inc.
Susanna Miller-Raines, MSW
Program Manager, Think College, Managing Director, IPSE Association
Kathryn Pears, MPPM
Chief Operating Officer, National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities & Dementia Practices (NTG)
Margaret Pulsifer, PhD
Director, Lifespan Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Jonathan D. Santoro, MD
Chief of Neurology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Brian Skotko, MD, MPP
Emma Campbell Endowed Chair on Down Syndrome, Massachusetts General Hospital & Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Lexie Gozdiff Spognardi
Clinical Research Coordinator II, Down Syndrome Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Genevieve Thompson
Manager of State and Grassroots Advocacy, National Down Syndrome Society
