Charting the Future — What PDCD Teaches Us About Mitochondrial Disease

Join MitoAction and Dr. Rebecca Ganetzsky, the Asst. Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in the Human Genetics Division at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for our September Monthly Mito Expert Series presentation titled Charting the Future — What PDCD Teaches Us About Mitochondrial Disease!

About the Speaker:

Rebecca Ganetzky, MD is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in the division of Human Genetics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research focuses on mitochondrial complex V deficiency and the development of clinical biochemical assays to improve the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease. Her clinical interests include management of lactic acidosis and other metabolic manifestations of mitochondrial disease. Dr. Ganetzky graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Biology & Computer Science; she received her 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.