Lunch and Learn For Rare Diseases being hosted tomorrow

MGCCC’s Jackson County campus will host a Lunch and Learn For Rare Diseases tomorrow.

Running from 11:50 to 12:50 in the Warner Peterson Administration Building Lecture Hall, guests can attend an event that focuses on awareness, education, and action for rare diseases.

The event is free and open to the public, the first 80 guests will receive a lunch provided by Chik-Fil-A.

There will be three speakers, the first is Dona Krystosek of Ocean Springs.

She is the mother of a child born with a degenerate dwarfism called Jansen’s Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia.

Kystosek didn’t take the diagnosis as a fatal decree and became a passionate advocate.

The second speaker is a former MGCCC student named Ashton Hamilton who was diagnosed with the fatal disease Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency.

Hamilton was inspired to become an advocate and is now a pediatric genetics researcher.

The third speaker is Sarah Vanderspen, the executive director of the United MSD Foundation.