SSSA Annual Conference
July 10-12, 2026, Drury Plaza Hotel, Olando FL

Speakers

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Brad Schaefer, MD

Dr. Shaefer is a professor of Pediatric, Genetics, and Internal Medicine, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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Jill Fahrner, MD, PhD

Dr. Fahrner is an assistant professor in the Departments of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is medical genetics.

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Jacqueline Harris, MD

Dr. Harris is the director of the Epigenetics Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute and an associate professor in pediatrics, neurology and genetics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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Alison Foster, MRCPCH, PhD

Dr. Foster is a Consultant in Clinical Genetics at Royal Devon University Hospitals and Honorary Consultant at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospitals.

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Lauren West

Lauren is a speech-language pathologist for the Elkhorn Public School District near Omaha, Nebraska. Sher serves students grades Pre-K – 8th grade with a variety of communication needs. Prior to this she served for eight years as an early intervention home-based speech-language pathologist.

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Leah Wibeca,

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Mandy Nagy

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Jayme Betts

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Melissa Godesky-Rodriguez

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Melody Parsons

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Linda Starnes

Linda Starnes raised two children with very different medical complexities and genetic conditions (Sotos Syndrome, and Congenital Bilateral Perisylvian Syndrome), while serving in various capacities with local, state, and national disability, health care, public health, and educational agencies and organizations.

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Tara Bonner

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Joy and Stephen Zedler