2008 Spring Conference

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): The Basics, the Present and the Future

Whether it is you or someone you love that has lupus, you know it can be a difficult condition to understand and treat.   Please join us at the LFNC Spring Conference on Saturday, March 29, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 pm,  at the Park Pavilion Building adjacent to El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.*

Our featured physician speaker is Dr. Joseph Isaacson. Dr. Isaacson has been a rheumatologist in San Jose for 28 years.  He has recently retired from his clinical practice and has joined the teaching staff at Stanford. 

He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and is an attending physician at Stanford University Hospital and the Palo Alto VA Hospital.  He graduated from the University of Michigan undergraduate and medical schools.  He received his post-graduate medical training at the University of Hawaii and the University of California, Davis.  He is national board certified by the American Boards of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, and Internal Medicine. He is also the medical director of Metabolic Nutrition Program, a medical clinic for the treatment of severe obesity.

You will gain a better understanding of the clinical aspects of lupus, currently available treatments, and treatments that are on the horizon.  A Q and A session will follow his presentation. 

A second featured speaker will be Dr. Jorn Drappa, Medical Director at Genentech, who will give an update on the progress of recent clinical trials and about the new clinical trials that are still enrolling participants. Dr. Drappa currently leads the clinical development programs of ocrelizumab and rhuMAb IFNalpha in SLE. Genentech is one of the pharmaceutical industry leaders working towards the development of new effective treatments for lupus. Dr. Drappa will answer questions at the conclusion of his presentation.

This program is free and upon to the public.  Please call the LFNC office by noon on Friday, March 28th, to confirm the number of people attending in your party.

*Directions to the meeting location, 2500 Grant Road, Mt View, 94040:

From San Francisco via Highway 101, exit at Highway 85 and head south. Exit on Grant Road/El Camino Real North. Cross El Camino Real. The hospital is one mile on the right.

From San Jose via Highway 101, exit at Highway 237 West (NOT East). Hwy 237 becomes Grant. Cross El Camino Real. The hospital is one mile on the right.

The location of the meeting room is in Conference Room N in the Park Pavilion Building, adjacent to El Camino Hospital.  As you arrive at El Camino Hospital on Grant Road, turn right on North Drive.  The Park Pavilion Building is the first building on the right. Turn into the first driveway on your right. There is plenty of free parking.  Enter the building from the back by the parking area.  Meeting rooms are in the basement.