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Location: University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center, 901 Harry S Truman Drive North, 1st Floor Conference Center, Room H-1-S-300, Largo, MD 20774
Time:
5:00-7:30pm ET
Expert Speakers:
Dr. Fraser Henderson and Dr. Kathryn Proctor
Topic:
EDS and the complex Chiari. Perspectives from Neurosurgery and Physical Therapy
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Dr. Fraser C. Henderson Sr. was foreman on a cattle station in the Outback of Australia before receiving his Bachelor’s and Medical degrees at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. He served with the Multi-National Peace Keeping Force in Beirut, Lebanon, earning the Navy Commendation Medal for preparedness and treatment of mass casualties, following the terrorist bombing attack on October 23rd, 1983. He completed a neurosurgery residency at the Medical University of South Carolina, then served as Neurosurgeon for the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade in the Gulf War in 1990-91. He was International Craniospinal Fellow at The National Hospitals for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. Commander Henderson was then appointed Director of Neurosurgery of the Spine and Craniocervical Junction at Georgetown University. After promotion to Professor of Neurosurgery (Scholar tract) he entered private practice in 2008, remaining academically active as Director of The Metropolitan Neurosurgery Group in Maryland, and Adjunct Professor to University of Maryland . He has published 130 peer reviewed articles, patents and book chapters, co-edited five books, and given over 200 invited lectures. Dr. Henderson is Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, staff member at University Maryland Capital Regional Medical Center , Executive Board member Bobby Jones Chiari Syringomyelia Foundation and formerly of the Ehlers –Danlos Society, a member of the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons, and an Officer of The Order of St. John. His recently published book, “Symptomatic” describes the diagnosis and evaluation of the 75 symptoms of the patient with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. His primary interest is validation of the clinical phenotype and pathophysiological endotypic mechanisms of Craniocervical instability in the population of connective tissue disorders. Serving also as Chief Medical Officer at Hemostemix Inc, his other interests lie in the neurobiology of stem cells in the treatment of neuropathic pain in central nervous system disorders, such as syringomyelia, and in treatment of vasculopathy of cognitive impairment in dementia.
