Events

Breathe, Stretch, Visualize: Yoga Session Presented by Kristin Law Yoga Instructor Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Yoga Session 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Complimentary Lunch & Community Connection This short yoga session with Kristin will help balance your energy and improve your mood. She'll offer breathing techniques to soothe the nervous system, easy stretches to release tension from the body, and visualizations to relax the mind. All of this can be experienced from a seated position. After practicing regularly for a decade, Kristin Law completed her 200 hr training in 2011 at Yoga People in Brooklyn. In 2016 she completed her 300 hr training at ISHTA in the East Village. She has been teaching weekly classes at various NYC studios for the past 15 years.

Lecture Topic: "From W-2 to C9orf72: the Taxing Nature of Genetic Motor Neuron Disease" Matthew B. Harms, MD AssociateProfessor of Neurology Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Patient Presentation: "Cervical Artery Dissection" Babak Navi, MD, MS, RPNI, Vice Chair, Neurology Hospital Services, Chief, Division of Stroke and Hospital Neurology, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, BMRI, WCM

Grand Rounds / Keynote Address: Lecture Title: MS as a Gateway Disease Fred Lublin, M.D., FAAN, FANA Professor of Neurology Director of The Corrine Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Followed by a Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis by current WCM and MSKCC Faculty: Ulrike Kaunzner, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology Weill Cornell Medical College Jai Perumal, M.B.B.S Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Weill Cornell Medical College Amit Kohli, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology Weill Cornell Medical College Jennifer Linden, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Research in Neuroscience Brain and Mind Research Institute Weill Cornell Medical College Ivan Kotchetkov, M.D. Instructor in Neurology Weill Cornell Medical College Assistant Attending, Brain Tumor Service Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer