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Daily Living: Maintaining a Healthy Weight
September 30th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm EST
Live, Virtual Webinar
Join us for a powerful and informative webinar focused on the unique needs and challenges of weight management with neuromuscular disease.
Whether you're a patient, caregiver, or advocate, this webinar will offer valuable insights, resources, and support.
What We’ll Cover:
- The importance of weight management in neuromuscular disease
- General principles of healthy weight maintenance
- Unique nutritional needs and challenges in neuromuscular disease
- Review resources and tools to help maintain a healthy weight
- Q&A session with our presenter
Meet Our Presenter:
Laura Watne MS RD CSP, Children's Hospital Colorado
Laura Watne is a Registered Dietitian and Board-Certified Specialist in Pediatric Nutrition. Laura specializes in medical nutrition therapy for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with a variety of neuromuscular conditions including Duchenne muscular dystrophy, congenital muscular dystrophy, congenital myopathy, spinal muscular atrophy, myotonic dystrophy, and Friedreich's ataxia. She has been part of the Children's Hospital Colorado Neuromuscular Clinic team since 2011. She was a member of the Cure SMA Medical Advisory Council from 2018 to 2023. Her other areas of expertise include spina bifida, spinal cord injury, Rett syndrome and feeding difficulties in patients who are underweight.
Not available to join live on September 30th? Register to receive an email when the webinar is available to view on-demand.
If you have questions about this webinar or other MDA programs, please contact the MDA Resource Center at 1-833-ASK-MDA1 (275-6321) or ResourceCenter@mdausa.org.
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