For the November 2023 Global Epidemiology Conference, iWiMS featured Dr. Alice Saul, University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and Dr. Akash Virupakshaiah, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Dr. Saul spoke about how a pro-inflammatory diet in people with Multiple Sclerosis is associated with an increased rate of relapse and increased FLAIR lesion volume on MRI. Dr. Virupakshaiah discussed predictors of a relapsing course in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease.
Please note, these videos are intended for a medical and scientific audience for educational purposes. Please acknowledge the speaker if you reference their work.
For the April 2023 Global Epidemiology Conference, iWiMS features presentations from the following individuals:
Dr. Eline Van Doninck, University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium
Dr. Anna-Victoria De Keersmaecker, University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium
Dr. Vinicius Andreoli Schoeps, University of California San Francisco, United States
Dr. Erin Longbrake, Yale University, United States
Dr. Van Doninck and Dr. De Keersmaecker spoke about their research titled MACSiMiSE-BRAIN: Metformin Add-on Clinical Study in Multiple Sclerosis to Evaluate Brain Remyelination And Neurodegeneration .
Dr. Schoeps discussed Repurposing N-Acetyl Cysteine for Neuroprotection in Progressive MS.
Dr. Longbrake explained the CELLO clinical trial for evaluating short-term ocrelizumab for radiologically isolated syndrome.
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For the March 2023 Global Epidemiology Conference, iWiMS featured Dr. Carmen Tur, Centre d'Escleosi Múltiple de Catalunya (Cemcat), Barcelona and Dr. Nicole Bou, Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Baltimore.
Dr. Tur spoke about the association of early progression independent of relapse activity and long-term disability after a first demyelinating event. Dr. Bou discussed how the extended interval dosing of Ocrelizumab in patients with Multiple Sclerosis is not associated with meaningful differences in disease activity.
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For the August 22, 2022 Global Epidemiology Conference, iWiMS featured Dr. Julia O’Mahoney, Dr. Antonia Ceccarelli and Dr. Francesca Bovis.
For the January 2022 Global Epidemiology Conference, iWiMS featured Dr. Irene Treviño-Frenk who spoke on Results from the LATAM NMOSD registry, as well as Dr. Sonam Dilwali, who spoke on the association of dietary intake to clinical and radiologic activity in pediatric multiple sclerosis. Dr. Ram N. Narayan shared information on the utility of telemedicine in the practice of multiple sclerosis.
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For the October 2021 Global Epidemiology Conference, iWiMS featured Dr. Maria Zuluaga who spoke on PLEX as first-line treatment in NMOSD attacks, as well as Dr. Dalia Rotstein, who spoke on comorbidities in immigrants and ethnically diverse persons with MS. Dr. Lubna Almouzain shared decisions around family planning and medication choice in relapsing remitting MS patients.
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The January Global Epidemiology Conference featured presentations from Drs. Mariano Marrodan from FLENI, Ethel Ciampi from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Huah Shin Ng fro University of British Columbia.
The November Global Epidemiology Conference was chaired by Ellen Mowry, MD, from Johns Hopkins University and featured presentations from Laura Negrotto, MD from FLENI, Kathryn Fitzgerald, ScD from Johns Hopkins University, and Riley Bove, MD from University of California, San Francisco.
Speaker Included:
Fardowsa Yusuf, MSc
- Fatigue, sleep disorders, anaemia and pain in the multiple sclerosis prodrome.
Tingting Zhang, MD, PhD
- Effects of comorbidities on short-term functional decline among nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis.
This is the recording from the second iWiMS Epidemiology Meeting, 15 July 2019.
Chaired by Dr Ellen Mowry, iWiMS Global Epidemiology Conference
Our speakers included:
Deanna Saylor, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University/Visiting Lecturer & Consultant, University of Lusaka (Zambia). MS in sub-Saharan Africa: Absence of Disease or Absence of Expertise?
Charity Evans, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan. Adherence in MS: a model for other chronic diseases?
Mitzi Williams, MD, Neurologist & MS Specialist, Atlanta, GA. Addressing Diversity in MS: The African American Experience in the US