Ask The Doctor? Navigating Healthcare Issues of the Special Needs Population

This important event is a question and answer forum regarding healthcare, financial and life issues that affect the special needs population, their parents, guardians and caretakers.

The forum will be attended by four Southside Hospital doctors, a trust and estate lawyer with an emphasis on planning for special need families, a chartered life underwriter for MassMutual (CLU) who is recognized as a special needs planning professional, EJ Autism, Horse Ability, ACLD, SEPTA, Nassau Suffolk Autism Society, AHA Asperger’s Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Association, United Cerebral Palsy, Kramer Learning Center and ACDS. 

The doors will open at 6PM with an hour set aside for refreshments and resources on our second floor expo.   The forum will begin at 7PM with chief of cardiology Dr. Jean Cacciabaudo, program director of family medicine Dr. Tochi Iroku-Malize, director of surgery Dr. Scott Wodicka and emergency physician Dr. Brian Blaustein.  After short clinical lectures from the physicians, the audience will be asked to fill out question cards to be answered by the panel and special guests.  Registration for this forum is open and free to the public.