Empowering families with knowledge, resources, and community through every stage of growing up with CP.
Free Event
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Date and Time
March 21, 2026
Registration: 1:00pm
Program 1:30 – 5:00 pm
Free Event
Includes commemorative event T-shirt and access to all activities at event reception
Location
Luskin Orthopaedic Institute for Children
The Luck Family Conference Center
403 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Agenda
1:00 – 1:30: Registration
1:30 – 1:40: Welcome | Soroush Baghdadi, MD
1:40 – 2:10: Keynote presentation: “CP Grows Up!” | Mark D. Peterson Ph.D., M.S., CSCS, FACSM
2:10 – 2:25: “Clinical Management of CP in Adults” | Maya Newman, MD, Lindsay Pietruszewski, DPT
2:25 – 2:35: Questions
2:35 – 3:35: Panel Presentation & Discussion “Lived Experience and Resources for Supportive Living and Advocacy”
Facilitators: Resheda Patterson, MSW, Joe Holt
Panel members: Inclusive Sol (Reena De Asis), Momentum (Amy Simons), Independent Living Center of Southern California (Hector Ochoa), Gillian Brannon, Bhumit Shah (Disability Rights CA)
3:35 – 5:00: Resource Fair includes Momentum Refresh Vehicles, Southern California Resources for Independent Living, CALIF Independent Living Center, SoCal Trykers, Disability Rights California, Inclusion Matters, Hope in CA Behavioral Health Specialists, California Medical Pharmacy (DME and Med supplies), LA County Disability Services
Mark D. Peterson
Ph.D., M.S., CSCS, FACSM
Dr. Peterson is the Charles E. Lytle, Jr. Endowed Research Professor at the University of Michigan-Medicine and a Fulbright Scholar. He researches health and chronic disease associated with disabilities, particularly cerebral palsy. He has over 200 publications and leads the development of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cerebral Palsy. He is also the proud father of a teenager with cerebral palsy.
Resource Fair
Momentum
Refresh Vehicles
CALIF Independent Living Center
Hope in CA Behavioral Health Specialists
California Medical Pharmacy
(DME and Med supplies)
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