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Expert Series: Lactic Acid & Mitochondrial Disease: When there’s too much of a good thing

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Poster announcing the Monthly Mito Expert Series on lactic acid & mitochondrial disease, featuring Dr. Rebecca Ganetzky, MD.  MitoAction

Lactic acid is an essential metabolite in our body, helping move energy from tissues that generate it, to the tissues that need it the most. We will talk about what lactic acid is supposed to do and how that gets dysregulated in mitochondrialRelated to the mitochondria. disease. Objectives include naming causes of high lactate, evaluating lactate metabolically & listing downstream impacts of high lactate.

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About the Speaker

Rebecca Ganetzky, MD

Rebecca Ganetzky, MD

Rebecca Ganetzky, MD is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in the division of Human Genetics & Genomics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is passionate about building biochemical diagnostic tools to help identify, prognosticate and monitor patients with inborn disorders of energy metabolism. She has special clinical interests in primary lactic acidosis, disorders of pyruvate and tricarboxylic acid metabolism, mitochondrial ATP synthase deficiency and Pearson syndrome.  Dr. Ganetzky graduated magna cum laude from Oberlin College with a BA in Biology & Computer Science from Oberlin College; she received a medical degree from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and completed a Pediatrics/Clinical Genetics combined residency and a Clinical Biochemical Genetics fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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