June 6, 2001
Contact: Jennifer Day, (313) 577-1058, jday@med.wayne.edu

CALENDAR ITEM: WSU School of Medicine to host international symposium on genetic disorder in children

Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan will host the Fourth International Scientific Symposium on Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome. The symposium, which is targeted to professionals and families of children with SLOS, will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, June 22, in the Crowne Plaza Pontchartrain, 2 Washington Blvd, Detroit. A SLOS Family-Physician Clinic Day will be on Saturday, June 23, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. SLOS is an inherited condition that causes multiple birth defects, growth retardation and mental retardation. For more information or to register, please call Joan Conard at (313) 745-4513.