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In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Robert Coleman to discuss overall survival of SORAYA trial. Dr. Coleman completed his Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, and completed his fellowship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1993. From 1993-1996, he served as Assistant Professor at Creighton University followed by service as Vice-Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Coleman joined as Faculty at MD Anderson Cancer center in 2004 and served as Professor and Executive Director for Cancer Network Research, holding the Ann Rife Cox Chair in Gynecology. In March 2020, he joined US Oncology Research (USOR) as Chief Scientific Officer and served briefly as Chief Medical Officer for Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI). He currently serves as Chief Medical officer for Vaniam Group. Dr. Coleman has authored or coauthored over 750 scientific publications, including over 450 peer-reviewed articles, along with numerous book chapters, monographs, invited articles, and textbooks. He was the 2019 APGO-CREOG awardee for Excellence in Teaching. He serves as Vice President of GOG-Foundation, Inc. He served as President of SGO (2015-2016) and is the immediate Past-President of IGCS. He was recently inducted into MJH Life Sciences™ 2020 class of “Giants in Cancer Care®.” Highlights: Mirvetuximab soravtansine (MIRV) is a first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate comprising an FRα-binding antibody, cleavable linker, and maytansinoid DM4, a potent tubulin-targeting agent Early clinical data suggested efficacy in recurrent platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (PROC) prompting a larger trial to confirm both safety and efficacy in patients with PROC In this SORAYA trial MIRV demonstrated clinically meaningful antitumor activity in patients with FRα-high platinum-resistant ovarian cancer with an ORR: 32.4% and a median DOR: 6.9 months Remarkably the median OS was 15 months; 37% patients alive at 24 months Efficacy of MIRV was further evaluated with respect to when it was administered (as first treatment for PROC) and in patients receiving prior bevacizumab. An ORR of 34.8% was documented in the formers, and 31.5% in the latter. The ocular toxicity was new for many treating physicians when the drug first became available. However with mitigating strategies as used in the study the events were predictable, low-grade, and rarely (n=1 patient) led to treatment discontinuation Now with MIRASOL confirming these data and demonstrating efficacy over standard of care for response, PFS, and unprecedently, OS, the agent is a staple of contemporary management.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Daniel Ontaneda, MD, an associate professor of neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, sat down to discuss the recently concluded Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS) Forum. Ontaneda, program committee vice-chair of the meeting, provided insight on a number of notable sessions and discussions that highlighted the recent advances in the MS field. In addition, he talked about the need to innovate clinical trials, ways to tackle progressive MS, and whether drug trials are truly assessing patients at the right time points. Furthermore, he discussed multi-stage trials, the potential role of Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors, and how this year's meeting differs from previous ones. Looking for more multiple sclerosis discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® multiple sclerosis clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:05 – Overviewing sessions from ACTRIMS Forum 13:10 – Innovating clinical trial design 16:15 – 2023 ACTRIMS vs 2024 ACTRIMS 20:20 – Neurology News Minute 23:30 – Testing combination approaches for progressive MS 26:45 – The impact of timing therapeutic interventions This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA AdComm to Review Investigational Alzheimer Agent Donanemab and Phase 3 Results Amylyx Mulls Over Pulling AMX0035 Following Disappointing Phase 3 PHOENIX Findings FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Long-Acting Form of Glatiramer Acetate for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Phase 2 PROCEED Trial of PACAP-Targeting Antibody Lu AG09222 in Migraine Announced Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Alcibiades Rodriguez, MD, medical director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center—Sleep Center at NYU Langone discussed several sleep-related topics, including the diagnosis of rare sleep disorders and hypersomnias. He spoke on the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, the importance of adherence to medication, and the ways clinicians can help patients stick to their treatment regimen. Furthermore, he talked about the conversations between patients and clinicians to ensure an accurate diagnosis, as well as the emerging research in the sleep disorder field over the coming years. Looking for more sleep disorders discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® sleep disorders clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:40 – Conversations needed to differentiate diagnoses 4:30 – Appearance of sleep disorders and overlap 6:50 – Complications with untreated sleep apnea 8:25 – Neurology News Minute 10:55 – Ways to improve adherence to medication 13:50 – Emerging research in the field This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Glatiramer Acetate Depot Demonstrates Sustained Longterm Safety Profile as Potential MS Therapy Phase 3 DAYBREAK Trial Highlights Long-Term Efficacy of Ozanimod for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis SRP-9001 Improves Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Disease Trajectory Despite Failing to Meet Primary End Point in Phase 3 EMBARK Trial Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Stephen From, chief executive officer of Aruna Bio, sat down to discuss the company's investigational exosome candidate AB126 and its upcoming phase 1b/2a trial in patients with ischemic stroke. He discussed the mechanism of action of the therapy, the advantages of its anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties, and how it will be used with other stroke treatments. Furthermore, he gave insight on the complexities with conducting stroke trials and improving neurodegeneration in poststroke patients. Looking for more stroke discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® stroke clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:00 – Overviewing phase 1b/2a trial 7:05 – Mechanism of action of AB126 11:15 – Neurology News Minute 13:45 – Role of AB126 in stroke treatment landscape 17:50 – Challenges with repairing neurodegeneration in stroke This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: European Commission Approves Omaveloxolone as First Therapy for Friedreich Ataxia AVP-786 Falls Short in Phase 3 Study of Alzheimer Disease Agitation FDA Grants Priority Review to Efficacy Supplement for Sarepta Therapeutics' SRP-9001 Indication Expansion Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Igancio Mata, PhD, sat down to discuss a recently published meta-analysis on the genetic backgrounds of Parkinson disease beyond traditional European populations. Mata, an associate professor in the Genomic Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic, provided insight on the newly identified novel loci and how the data adds to previous genome-wide association studies. In addition, he gave thoughts on the possibility of gene therapy and some of the barriers that come with it, as well as the feasibility of incorporating genetic checkpoints into clinical trial inclusion criteria. Looking for more movement disorder discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® movement disorder clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Meta-analysis overview 3:20 – Significance of results, how they add to the literature 6:50 – Feasibility of incorporating genetic screening into clinical trials 8:40 – Neurology News Minute 11:15 – Realistic expectations and potential with gene therapy 15:45 – Next steps in advancing this research This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Biogen Walks Away From Aducanumab to Prioritize Lecanemab and Alzheimer Disease Pipeline Updated Guidelines Published to Improve Care in Specialized Epilepsy Centers FDA Clears IND for Gene Therapy Candidate ETX101 in Dravet Syndrome Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
In this episode of the VetMed Mind, two larger than life veterinary speakers and friends talk about life in the profession. Dr. Adam Christman is the chief veterinary officer for dvm360® — an MJH Life Sciences® company — who oversees content strategy and development and is the brand voice and personality for dvm360®'s multimedia channels. As a charismatic leader, he brings wit, humor, and authenticity to animal health care as the host of a new web-based talk show, dvm360 Live!™, The Vet Blast Podcast, continuing education webinars, and live media broadcasts. Christman also has been in private practice and shelter medicine for 18 years and is currently a member and treasurer of the New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association. He received his DVM degree from Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames, Iowa, and his MBA from Aspen University in Denver, Colorado. As an avid social media influencer for animal health care, he has over 800,000 followers on TikTok and 53,000 followers on Instagram. He loves to engage with fellow pet parents and veterinary professionals across social media. Christman is an advocate of Pride VMC and Pawsibilities. He is also the proud dog dad to 4 dachshunds and believes no one should be deprived of the incredible human-animal bond. To learn more about Dr. Christman's passions in life and work:Check out his website and visit his socials on his main page: https://dradamchristman.com/Listen to his Podcast: The Vet Blast Podcast -https://www.dvm360.com/podcastsBuy his book or recommend it to your clients: Honey, Have You Squeezed the Dachshund?: A Guide for Dachshund Owners Who Are Terrified of IVDDVisit Pride VMC and PawsibilitesThe VetMed Mind is a podcast project about sharing inspirational stories, lessons, and successes from the fantastic people of the veterinary industry.Content Note: Topic of bullying is mentioned within the podcast
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/YUZ865. CME/MOC credit will be available until December 31, 2024.Controlling and Conquering CLL: Guidance on Modern Targeted Options, Innovative Combinations, and Sequential ManagementPenn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.This activity is developed in collaboration with our educational partners, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and CLL Society.SupportThis activity is supported by independent educational grants from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Lilly; and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.DisclosuresProf. John G. Gribben, MD, DSc, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Amgen and Gilead Sciences/Kite.Grant/Research Support from AstraZeneca.John N. Allan, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; ADC Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Epizyme, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; LAVA Therapeutics; Lilly; Pharmacyclics LLC; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Grant/Research Support from BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Speaker for AbbVie; BeiGene, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Nicole Lamanna, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; Allogene Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; MingSight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Octapharma USA, Inc.; Oncternal Therapeutics; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Meghan C. Thompson, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AstraZeneca; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC/Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Genmab; and Nurix Therapeutics. Research funding goes to Institution.Honoraria from Brazilian Association of Hematology; Curio Science; Dava Oncology; Hemotherapy and Cellular Therapy (ABHH); Intellisphere LLC; Massachusetts Medical Society; MJH Life Sciences; Phillips Group Oncology Communications; and VJHemOnc.Larry Marion has no financial interests/relationships or affiliations in relation to this activity.Other PVI staff who may potentially review content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.Penn State College of Medicine staff and faculty involved in the development and review of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/YUZ865. CME/MOC credit will be available until December 31, 2024.Controlling and Conquering CLL: Guidance on Modern Targeted Options, Innovative Combinations, and Sequential ManagementPenn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.This activity is developed in collaboration with our educational partners, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and CLL Society.SupportThis activity is supported by independent educational grants from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Lilly; and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.DisclosuresProf. John G. Gribben, MD, DSc, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Amgen and Gilead Sciences/Kite.Grant/Research Support from AstraZeneca.John N. Allan, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; ADC Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Epizyme, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; LAVA Therapeutics; Lilly; Pharmacyclics LLC; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Grant/Research Support from BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Speaker for AbbVie; BeiGene, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Nicole Lamanna, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; Allogene Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; MingSight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Octapharma USA, Inc.; Oncternal Therapeutics; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Meghan C. Thompson, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AstraZeneca; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC/Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Genmab; and Nurix Therapeutics. Research funding goes to Institution.Honoraria from Brazilian Association of Hematology; Curio Science; Dava Oncology; Hemotherapy and Cellular Therapy (ABHH); Intellisphere LLC; Massachusetts Medical Society; MJH Life Sciences; Phillips Group Oncology Communications; and VJHemOnc.Larry Marion has no financial interests/relationships or affiliations in relation to this activity.Other PVI staff who may potentially review content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.Penn State College of Medicine staff and faculty involved in the development and review of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/YUZ865. CME/MOC credit will be available until December 31, 2024.Controlling and Conquering CLL: Guidance on Modern Targeted Options, Innovative Combinations, and Sequential ManagementPenn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.This activity is developed in collaboration with our educational partners, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and CLL Society.SupportThis activity is supported by independent educational grants from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Lilly; and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.DisclosuresProf. John G. Gribben, MD, DSc, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Amgen and Gilead Sciences/Kite.Grant/Research Support from AstraZeneca.John N. Allan, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; ADC Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Epizyme, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; LAVA Therapeutics; Lilly; Pharmacyclics LLC; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Grant/Research Support from BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Speaker for AbbVie; BeiGene, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Nicole Lamanna, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; Allogene Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; MingSight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Octapharma USA, Inc.; Oncternal Therapeutics; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Meghan C. Thompson, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AstraZeneca; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC/Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Genmab; and Nurix Therapeutics. Research funding goes to Institution.Honoraria from Brazilian Association of Hematology; Curio Science; Dava Oncology; Hemotherapy and Cellular Therapy (ABHH); Intellisphere LLC; Massachusetts Medical Society; MJH Life Sciences; Phillips Group Oncology Communications; and VJHemOnc.Larry Marion has no financial interests/relationships or affiliations in relation to this activity.Other PVI staff who may potentially review content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.Penn State College of Medicine staff and faculty involved in the development and review of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/YUZ865. CME/MOC credit will be available until December 31, 2024.Controlling and Conquering CLL: Guidance on Modern Targeted Options, Innovative Combinations, and Sequential ManagementPenn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.This activity is developed in collaboration with our educational partners, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and CLL Society.SupportThis activity is supported by independent educational grants from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Lilly; and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.DisclosuresProf. John G. Gribben, MD, DSc, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Amgen and Gilead Sciences/Kite.Grant/Research Support from AstraZeneca.John N. Allan, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; ADC Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Epizyme, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; LAVA Therapeutics; Lilly; Pharmacyclics LLC; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Grant/Research Support from BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Speaker for AbbVie; BeiGene, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Nicole Lamanna, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; Allogene Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; MingSight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Octapharma USA, Inc.; Oncternal Therapeutics; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Meghan C. Thompson, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AstraZeneca; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC/Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Genmab; and Nurix Therapeutics. Research funding goes to Institution.Honoraria from Brazilian Association of Hematology; Curio Science; Dava Oncology; Hemotherapy and Cellular Therapy (ABHH); Intellisphere LLC; Massachusetts Medical Society; MJH Life Sciences; Phillips Group Oncology Communications; and VJHemOnc.Larry Marion has no financial interests/relationships or affiliations in relation to this activity.Other PVI staff who may potentially review content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.Penn State College of Medicine staff and faculty involved in the development and review of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/YUZ865. CME/MOC credit will be available until December 31, 2024.Controlling and Conquering CLL: Guidance on Modern Targeted Options, Innovative Combinations, and Sequential ManagementPenn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.This activity is developed in collaboration with our educational partners, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and CLL Society.SupportThis activity is supported by independent educational grants from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Lilly; and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.DisclosuresProf. John G. Gribben, MD, DSc, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Amgen and Gilead Sciences/Kite.Grant/Research Support from AstraZeneca.John N. Allan, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; ADC Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Epizyme, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; LAVA Therapeutics; Lilly; Pharmacyclics LLC; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Grant/Research Support from BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Speaker for AbbVie; BeiGene, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Nicole Lamanna, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; Allogene Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; MingSight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Octapharma USA, Inc.; Oncternal Therapeutics; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Meghan C. Thompson, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AstraZeneca; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC/Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Genmab; and Nurix Therapeutics. Research funding goes to Institution.Honoraria from Brazilian Association of Hematology; Curio Science; Dava Oncology; Hemotherapy and Cellular Therapy (ABHH); Intellisphere LLC; Massachusetts Medical Society; MJH Life Sciences; Phillips Group Oncology Communications; and VJHemOnc.Larry Marion has no financial interests/relationships or affiliations in relation to this activity.Other PVI staff who may potentially review content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.Penn State College of Medicine staff and faculty involved in the development and review of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/YUZ865. CME/MOC credit will be available until December 31, 2024.Controlling and Conquering CLL: Guidance on Modern Targeted Options, Innovative Combinations, and Sequential ManagementPenn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.This activity is developed in collaboration with our educational partners, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and CLL Society.SupportThis activity is supported by independent educational grants from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Lilly; and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company and Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.DisclosuresProf. John G. Gribben, MD, DSc, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Amgen and Gilead Sciences/Kite.Grant/Research Support from AstraZeneca.John N. Allan, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; ADC Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Epizyme, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; LAVA Therapeutics; Lilly; Pharmacyclics LLC; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Grant/Research Support from BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Speaker for AbbVie; BeiGene, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Nicole Lamanna, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AbbVie; Adaptive Biotechnologies; Allogene Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; MingSight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Octapharma USA, Inc.; Oncternal Therapeutics; and TG Therapeutics, Inc.Meghan C. Thompson, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for AstraZeneca; Lilly/Loxo Oncology, Inc.; and Pharmacyclics LLC/Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Grant/Research Support from AbbVie; AstraZeneca; BeiGene, Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Genmab; and Nurix Therapeutics. Research funding goes to Institution.Honoraria from Brazilian Association of Hematology; Curio Science; Dava Oncology; Hemotherapy and Cellular Therapy (ABHH); Intellisphere LLC; Massachusetts Medical Society; MJH Life Sciences; Phillips Group Oncology Communications; and VJHemOnc.Larry Marion has no financial interests/relationships or affiliations in relation to this activity.Other PVI staff who may potentially review content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.Penn State College of Medicine staff and faculty involved in the development and review of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Orrin Devinsky, MD, director of the NYU Langone Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, provided commentary on a recently published study assessing video evidence of sudden unexplained deaths in toddlers. Devinsky, who also serves as a professor of neurology, discussed the importance behind crib cams, the moments captured prior to the deaths assessed, and the involvement of seizure activity even with no prior history. In addition, he spoke on the abnormal sounds and movements of these children, the ways to advance SUDC research, and the next steps in understanding and relaying the data. Looking for more epilepsy discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® epilepsy clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Reasons behind studying sudden death in toddlers 3:55 – Notable takeaways from trial results 8:15 – Advancing ways to research SUDC/SUDEP 9:40 – Neurology News Minute 12:05 – Realistic ways to lower convulsive activity prior to sleep 15:05 – What abnormal movements/noises can ellucidate 15:55 – Ways to expand the research further This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Approves Takeda's Immune Globulin Infusion, Hyqvia, for Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Satsuma's DHE Nasal Powder STS101 to Treat Acute Migraine ALS Agent PrimeC to Advance to Phase 3 Study After Positive PARADIGM Trial Data Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
In this week's episode, Dr. Andy Roark is joined by Adam Christman and Louise Dunn to discuss their favorite tips for handling financial conversations. Together they tackle some of the common challenges we face as veterinary professionals and offer various resources to make sure we're keeping care accessible. They both offer insight into effective team training as well as the importance of creating a special veterinary experience for your clients. Let's get into this episode! This episode is brought to you by CareCredit! https://www.carecredit.com/vetmed/ This information is shared solely for your convenience. All statements are the sole opinions of Uncharted Veterinary Podcast, and neither Synchrony nor its affiliates, including CareCredit, make any representations or warranties regarding the content. LINKS AAHA Article on Pet To Care Study: https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2022-08/getting-to-know-the-path-to-care-can-help-bring-more-clients-your-way/ CareCredit Tip Sheet: https://www.carecredit.com/sites/pc/pdf/financial-care-supports-care-for-pets.pdf Pet Health Finder: https://www.pethelpfinder.org/m/phf Pawlicy Advisor: https://www.pawlicy.com Pet's Best Resources: https://www.petsbest.com/vets ABOUT OUR GUESTS Louise Dunn is a renowned award-winning international speaker, writer and consultant. She brings over 40 years of in the trenches experience and her business education to veterinary management. Louise is founder and CEO of Snowgoose Veterinary Management Consulting. SVMC works with veterinarians who want to develop a strategic plan that consistently produces results. Most recently Louise received many awards including the WVC Educator of the Year numerous times and VetPartner's The Life Time achievement Award in January 2016. Besides all aspects of practice management and mentoring, Louise's passions include her husband Joel, Annabelle her English mastiff Therapy dog and her little sister Afton, kayaking, opera , gardening and New England Patriot's football. Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, is the chief veterinary officer for dvm360®—an MJH Life Sciences® company —who oversees content strategy and development and is the brand voice and personality for dvm360®'s multimedia channels. As a charismatic leader, he brings wit, humor, and authenticity to animal health care as the host of a new web-based talk show, dvm360 Live!™, The Vet Blast Podcast, continuing education webinars, and live media broadcasts. Christman also has been in private practice and shelter medicine for 18 years and is currently a member and treasurer of the New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association. He received his DVM degree from Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames, Iowa, and his MBA from Aspen University in Denver, Colorado. Christman is a national thought leader, speaker, and author on practice management, social media, and rehabilitation, and coauthored, “Honey, Have You Squeezed the Dachshund? A Pet Owner's Guide for Owners Who Are Terrified of IVDD”—a book on dogs with disabilities. He has been featured in multiple publications and appeared on various multimedia shows throughout the United States, sharing his expertise and passion on all things veterinary medicine. As an avid social media influencer for animal health care, he has over 800,000 followers on TikTok and 53,000 followers on Instagram. He loves to engage with fellow pet parents and veterinary professionals across social media. Christman is an advocate of Pride VMC and Pawsibilities. He is also the proud dog dad to 4 dachshunds and believes no one should be deprived of the incredible human-animal bond.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Cathleen Lutz, PhD, vice president of the Rare Disease Translational Center at the Jackson Laboratory, provided comment on a recently published study which unveiled that stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Lutz offered insight on the role stathmin-2 may have in this disease, the questions that still remain, and whether restoration of stathmin-2 may be an attractive therapeutic approach. Furthermore, she spoke on the potential of this protein as a disease-modifying biomarker and whether it may be incorporated in trials in the near future. Looking for more neuromuscular discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® neuromuscular clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Idea behind studying stathmin-2 2:45 – Overviewing study results 7:05 – Next steps in extending this research 8:40 – Neurology News Minute 11:30 – Stathmin-2's connection with neurofilament light 12:55 – Potential of stathmin-2 as ALS-specific biomarker 14:45 – Future use of stathmin-2 in clinical trials 15:30 – Closing thoughts This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Clears Phase 2 KYSA-7 Study of CAR T-Cell Therapy in Refractory Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Dyne Reports Positive Phase 1/2 Data for Duchenne Agent DYNE-251 Parkinson Gene Therapy AB-1005 Meets Primary End Point in Phase 1b Trial VISIONARY-MS Trial Reports CNM-Au8 Improves Vision and Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we comprised some of the most interesting conversations from Mind Moments podcast episodes in 2023, highlighting research in neurology that moves the field forward. The NeurologyLive team included several reaction episodes to FDA approved medicines, providing clinicians an overview of what they can expect from these new therapies and how they will be used in clinic going forward. Those included in this week's episode, in order of appearance, are: Sharon Cohen, MD, FRCPC, behavioral neurologist and medical director of the Toronto Memory Program at the University of Toronto, and a trial investigator for Clarity AD, the phase 3 trial of lecanemab. Check out the full episode here: https://www.neurologylive.com/view/special-episode-lecanemab-approved-for-alzheimer-disease Robert A. Hauser, MD, MBA, director of the Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center at the University of South Florida.Check out the full episode here: https://www.neurologylive.com/view/episode-81-widening-therapeutic-window-parkinson-disease Alberto Espay, MD, PhD, the division director and Research Endowed Chair of the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, and a professor of clinical neurology and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Cincinnati.Check out the full episode here: https://www.neurologylive.com/view/episode-94-discussion-leqembi-lecanemab-approval-alzheimer-disease Carolina Ferreira Atuesta, MD, MSc, a scientific researcher and clinical data manager at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Check out the full episode here: https://www.neurologylive.com/view/episode-82-managing-seizures-after-ischemic-stroke Natalie Goedeker, CPNP, a nurse practitioner in neurology in the Neuromuscular Division at Washington University in St Louis.Check out the full episode here: https://www.neurologylive.com/view/special-episode-tofersen-approved-sod1-als Want more Mind Moments episodes? Click here for all of NeurologyLive®'s podcast episodes. Episode Breakdown: 1:20 – Cohen on the safety of lecanemab, including the 3 patient deaths reported in the supportive clinical trial program. 6:25 – Hauser on the clinical advantages of IPX203, a potential new carbidopa/levodopa formulation for patients with Parkinson disease. 9:20 – Espay on tempering expectations of lecanemab and other antiamyloid therapies in the treatment of Alzheimer disease. 13:20 – Atuesta on the lack of standardized methods for monitoring patients with poststroke seizures, including elders. 17:00 – Goedeker on the approval of gene therapy SRP-9001 for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the integration process, and safety considerations clinicians should be aware of. This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Jennifer Gudeman, senior vice president of medical and clinical affairs for Avadel Pharmaceuticals, sat down to discuss a recently published post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 REST-ON trial of once-nightly sodium oxybate (Lumryz). In the conversation, Gudeman talked about the impact of the drug on both narcolepsy types 1 and 2, the differences between these 2 subtypes, and the ways clinical trials of narcolepsy agents continue to evolve. Furthermore, she spoke on some of the unmet needs for this patient population, including lingering brain fog and overcoming negative stigmas. Looking for more sleep disorders discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® narcolepsy clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Overview of post-hoc analysis of REST-ON 3:15 – Differences in type 1 and 2 narcolepsy 5:50 – Neurology News Minute 8:15 – Expanding treatment profile of once-nightly sodium oxybate 10:55 – Lingering unmet needs of patients with narcolepsy 11:20 – Realistic timeline of gene therapies for epilepsy 14:00 – Future of narcolepsy research, drug development trials This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Places Clinical Hold on Roche's BTK Inhibitor Fenebrutinib for Multiple Sclerosis ALS Candidate PrimeC Meets Primary Safety and Secondary End Points in Phase 2b PARADIGM Study FDA Clears NeuroOne's OneRF Ablation System for Neurosurgerical Procedures Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
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This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
PeerView Family Medicine & General Practice CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/MOC/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/SPK865. CME/MOC/AAPA credit will be available until December 12, 2024.Addressing Unmet Needs in Anticoagulation for Thrombosis: Next-Generation Strategies for Improving Care In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Alliance.Disclosure PolicyAll relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.Faculty/Planner DisclosuresCo-Chair/PlannerRoxana Mehran, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Grant/Research Support from Abbott; ABIOMED; Affluent Medical; Alleviant Medical; Amgen Inc.; AM-Pharma B.V.; Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AstraZeneca; AtriCure Inc.; Biosensors; BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG; Boston Scientific Corporation; Bristol Myers Squibb; CardiaWave; Celonova Biosciences Inc.; Chiesi USA, Inc.; Concept Medical; Cytosorbents Europe GmbH; Daiichi Sankyo Inc.; Duke; Element Science, Inc.; Faraday Pharmaceuticals; Humacyte, Inc.; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Koninklijke Philips N.V.; Magenta Therapeutics; M.A. Med Alliance SA; MediaSphere Medical LLC; Medtelligence; Medtronic; MJH Life Sciences; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; OrbusNeich Medical Company Group Holdings Limited; Penumbra, Inc.; PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pi-Cardia; PLx Pharma Inc.; Protembis GmbH; RenalPro; RM Global Partners; Shockwave Medical Inc.; Vivasure Medical Limited; and ZOLL Medical Corporation.Honoraria from ACC (BOT Member, SC Member CTR Program) and JAMA Cardiology (Associate Editor).Stock Shareholder in Applied Therapeutics and Elixir Therapeutics, LLC.Other Financial or Material Support in the form of personal fees from Affluent Medical; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Daiichi Sankyo Brasil; ER Squibb & Sons LLC; Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.; Europa Group/Boston Scientific Corporation; Gaffney Events Educational Trust; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; IQVIA Inc; J-CalC; McVeigh Global Meetings and Events; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Novo Nordisk Inc.; Oversome; Primer Healthcare of New Jersey; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; SL Solutions LLC; TARSUS Cardiology; Vectura Group Ltd; and Vox Media, LLC.Co-Chair/PlannerJeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:Consultant and/or Advisor for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer AG; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Honoraria from Ionis Pharmaceuticals; Janssen Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer; and Servier Canada.Planning Committee and Reviewer DisclosuresPlanners, independent reviewers, and staff of PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, do not have any relevant financial relationships related to this CE activity unless listed below.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, William Gallentine, DO, interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children's Health, who discussed several topics related to the advances in pediatric epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, and seizure localization. Gallentine, who also serves as a clinical professor, provided insight on the screening process and eligibility criteria for epilepsy surgery, as well as the importance of lifestyle modifications when treating epilepsy. Furthermore, he touched upon the genetic background of certain epileptic disorders and when the clinical community can expect gene therapies. Looking for more epilepsy discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® epilepsy clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – State of pediatric epilepsy 2:15 – Screening potential candidates for epilepsy surgery 5:00 – Advances in seizure localization 7:15 – Neurology News Minute 9:25 – Balance of nonpharmacological approaches 11:20 – Realistic timeline of gene therapies for epilepsy 13:15 – Future plans for research, current unmet needs This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Clears AI-Powered Brain MRI Software Pixyl.Neuro FDA Grants Meeting With BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics on ALS Therapy NurOwn FDA Warns of Serious Adverse Effects for Using Levetiracetam and Clobazam in Epilepsy Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Brett Vaughan, chief executive officer of Cognito Therapeutics, provided insight on the mechanism of action behind the company's gamma sensory stimulation as a potential therapy for patients with Alzheimer disease. He spoke on the positive phase 2 OVERTURE study presented at the 2023 Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) conference, including the notable takeaways from the trial and the safety profile observed. In addition, he commented on how this approach can be used with newer therapies and what the company is looking to achieve in a phase 3 trial. Looking for more Alzheimer disease/dementia discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® Alzheimer disease/dementia clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Overview of phase 2 OVERTURE study 4:45 – Mechanism of action of gamma sensory stimulation 10:00 – Potential therapeutic crossover with emerging treatments 12:30 – Neurology News Minute 14:50 – Feasibility of the stimulation device 18:20– Future plans and planned phase 3 study This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: ATA188 Fails to Meet Primary End Point In Phase 2 EMBOLD Study of Progressive MS Elecsys Neurofilament Light Test Gains Breakthrough Device Designation as Way to Track MS Disease Activity FDA Clears Phase 2 Study of CAR T-Cell Therapy KYV-101 in Myasthenia Gravis Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Alfonso Fasano, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at the University of Toronto and staff neurologist at Toronto Western Hospital, who spoke on the topic of neuromodulation in Parkinson disease and the potential targets clinicians should be learning about. He discussed the specific patient profiles who fit for neuromodulation, ways to improve this type of personalized medicine, and the needed research in this patient population going forward. Looking for more movement disorder discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® Movement Disorder clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Overview of MDS presentation 2:40 – Reasons for complexities with freezing in parkinsonism 4:35 – Aspects of deep brain stimulation care that need improvement 7:00 – Neurology News Minute 9:15 – Promising neuromodulation targets in the brain 12:35 – Finding optimal candidates for specific neurosurgery procedures 18:50 – Future research of neuromodulation in Parkinson disease This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Eisai Plans to Submit BLA for Subcutaneous Lecanemab After Findings Show Promising Results FDA Approves Vamorolone as a Treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy SRP-9001 Fails to Meet Primary End Point in Phase 3 EMBARK Study Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with a variety of specialists in neurology who presented research and gave talks at MSMilan, the joint ECTRIMS-ACTRIMS meeting, held October 11-13, in Milan, Italy. Those included in this week's episode, in order of appearance, are: Mitzi Joi Williams, MD, founder and chief executive officer of the Joi Life Wellness Group Multiple Sclerosis Center. Rhonda Voskuhl, the director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program at UCLA. Tom Fuchs, MD, PhD, a research fellow at the MS Center at Amsterdam University Medical Center. Barry Singer, MD, the director and founder of The MS Center for Innovations in Care. Georgina Arrambide, a clinical neurologist in the MS Center of Catalunya. Want more from the MSMilan, the joint ECTRIMS-ACTRIMS meeting? Click here for all of NeurologyLive®'s coverage of MSMilan 2023. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Joi Williams on expanding the use of biomarkers and the next steps in advancing precision medicine for multiple sclerosis treatment. 2:20 – Voskuhl on the increased research efforts to better understand the links between aging, menopause, and women with MS. 4:30 – Fuchs on the challenges of tracking cognitive decline in multiple sclerosis and improving currently available assessments. 7:50 – Singer on the introduction of biosimilars to MS care, the rigorous approval process they undergo, and the potential benefits they bring to the field. 11:45 – Arrambide on an updated consensus approach to the differential diagnosis of suspected multiple sclerosis, and the red flags clinicians should be aware of during this process. This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Gunter Hoglinger, MD, professor of neurology and translational neuroscientist at Ludwig Maximillian's University Munich, provided commentary on a newly initiated phase 3 study assessing AMX0035 (Relyrvio; Amylyx Pharmaceuticals) in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Otherwise known as the ORION trial, Hoglinger discussed what went into trial inclusion, primary end points, and why they believe this therapy, which was approved for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2022, could have benefits in PSP. Looking for more neuromuscular disorder discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® Neuromuscular clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Underlying mechanisms of progressive supranuclear palsy 3:30 – Similarities and differences between ALS and PSP 5:00 – Overview of ORION study design 7:00 – Neurology News Minute 9:15 – Reasons behind specific trial inclusion 10:35 – Primary end points of the study 12:50 – Significance of a potentially successful trial This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Advisory Committee Downvotes Mesenchymal Stem Cell Approach NurOwn as Potential ALS Therapy FDA Approves HoneyNaps' Artificial Intelligence Sleep Disorder Diagnosis Software FDA Approves Cipaglucosidase Alfa and Miglustat as First Two-Component Therapy for Pompe Disease Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Birgitte R. Kornum, MD, an associate professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen, discussed recently published preclinical research assessing phenotypical features and disease progression of narcolepsy type 1. Kornum provided insight on the 2 mouse models used, the effectiveness of the DVC System, and some of the phenotypic features identified. In addition, she gave insight on how the research adds to the ongoing puzzle of treating narcolepsy and where future efforts should be directed toward. Looking for more movement disorder discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® Narcolepsy clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Overview of Medicare study and objectives 3:15 – Advantages of DVC System 5:40 – Clinical takeaways from the findings 9:30 – Neurology News Minute 12:05 – Critical phenotypic features of narcolepsy 14:20 – Significance of this research, future goals This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Alzheimer Agent ALZ-801 Improves Cognition, Reduces Relevant Biomarker Levels in 2-Year Analysis FDA Updates Label for Psychosis Medication Pimavanserin FDA Approves AI-Incorporated Alzheimer Detection Software AIRAscore Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, James Beck, PhD, senior vice president and chief scientific officer of the Parkinson's Foundation provided perspectives on a recently published Medicare claims study that highlighted major gaps and disparities in access to Parkinson disease care. He spoke on the significance of the findings, including the lack of movement disorder specialists and issues with access to mental health professionals despite high rates of depression in this patient population. Furthermore, he spoke on the ways to make specialized care for Parkinson disease more obtainable, especially for those in rural or underserved communities. Looking for more movement disorder discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® Movement disorder clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Overview of Medicare study and objectives 2:20 – Greatest clinical take-home points from the data 4:15 – Utilizing resources to cover gaps in access 5:30 – Neurology News Minute 8:05 – Reasons for lack of mental health professional support 10:55 – Challenges with understanding depression in PD 12:35 – Ensuring access to PD care in rural/underserved communities This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Approves Sandoz's Natalizumab-sztn as First Biosimilar for Multiple Sclerosis Duchenne Agent Pamrevlumab Fails to Meet Primary End Point in Phase 3 LELANTOS-2 Trial FDA Issues Ravulizumab Complete Response Letter for NMOSD, Citing Needed Changes to REMS Program Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Nicole Fowler, PhD, director of research for internal medicine and geriatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, discussed the DAVOS Alzheimer's Collaborative DIGITAL Demonstration Project, an initiative to help understand the feasibility, acceptability, and implementation of digital cognitive screening tools in primary care settings. Specifically, she spoke on how these tools will be used as more novel therapeutics for Alzheimer disease emerge, the challenges with screening patients large-scale, and how blood tests and other biomarkers will play a role going forward. Looking for more Alzheimer disease/dementia discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® Alzheimer disease/dementia clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Objectives of DAVOS Project, overview of presentation from AAIC 6:55 – Complexities and challenges with screening in primary care settings 10:30 – Neurology News Minute 13:25 – Incorporating screening procedures with emerging therapies 12:30 – Future role of digital technologies and blood tests This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Approves Expanded Indication of DaxibotulinumtoxinA to Treat Cervical Dystonia Exon 44 Skipping Agent AOC 1044 Granted FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy CGRP Medication Atogepant Gains European Commission Approval as Migraine Preventive FDA Approves Neurocrine Biosciences' Valbenazine for Huntington Disease Chorea Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Thomas Crawford, MD, a pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, spoke on the recently published 5-year analysis of the NURTURE study (NCT02386553), a long-term trial assessing the efficacy and safety of nusinersen (Spinraza; Biogen) in presymptomatic infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Crawford discussed the significance of the positive findings, the shift in conversations around treatment optimization in SMA, and how subgroup data may factor into the design of future trials. Looking for more Neuromuscular Disorders discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® neuromuscular clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:20 – Benefits seen with nusinersen in NURTURE 4:10 – Changes in goals for treating SMA 6:05 – Complexities with getting infants therapy days after diagnosis 9:40 – Neurology News Minute 12:30 – Subgroup findings from NURTURE 15:20 – Ways to improve treatment optimization in SMA This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: World Health Organization Adds Several MS Treatments to List of Essential Medicines Ceribell's Status Epilepticus Software Receives FDA Clearance With CMS NTAP Coverage Included FDA Accepts New Drug Application for Long-Acting Form of Glatiramer Acetate Essential Tremor Agent Ulixacaltamide Continues to Show Positive Results in Essential1 Study Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. This episode features an in-depth dive into the recent approval of lecanemab (Leqembi; Eisai) for Alzheimer disease and the ongoing debate about its potential benefit, the amyloid-targeting class of medicines, and the communication of data. Featured in this episode is commentary from 2 experts in neurology clinical care: Anton P. Porsteinsson, MD, the William B. and Sheila Konar Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Medicine, and the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Care, Research and Education Program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; and Alberto Espay, MD, PhD, the division director and Research Endowed Chair of the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, and a professor of clinical neurology and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Cincinnati. Looking for more Alzheimer disease discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® dementia and Alzheimer disease clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:45 – Introduction and main findings 3:15 – Espay, with his perspective on the downstream effects of the approval 10:10 – Porsteinsson, with his perspective on the downstream effects of the approval 18:30 – Secondary end points and safety data 20:05 – Porsteinsson, on the recent progress in AD 23:05 – Espay, on contextualizing the effect of amyloid clearance 26:00 – Porsteinsson, on the logistics of the approval 34:20 – Espay, on the lingering unanswered questions 38:20 – Espay, on the communication of data to the public around the amyloid therapies 42:25 – Porsteinsson, on how things evolve going forward This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories and studies featured in this week's show, as well as additional expert interviews on lecanemab, can be found here: Show notes: Alberto Espay's lecanemab data infographic Lecanemab CLARITY data Donanameb TRAILBLAZER data Additional reading and coverage: FDA Grants Traditional Approval to Lecanemab as Therapy for Early-Stage Alzheimer Disease Medicare Expands Coverage for Fully Approved Alzheimer Agent Lecanemab Lecanemab to be Tested in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Therapeutics Aim at Modifying Alzheimer Disease Additional expert interviews: David Bates, PhD: Downstream Impacts of Lecanemab on Alzheimer Disease, Future Drug Development Howard Fillit, MD: Lecanemab's Impact on Care and Diagnosis and the Future of Alzheimer Disease Treatment Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA: Preparing Primary Care Centers for New Wave of Alzheimer Agents Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD: Lessons Learned About Clinically Meaningful Benefit from Antiamyloid Trials Sharon Cohen, MD, FRCPC: Significance of Expanding Antiamyloid Therapy Class, Toolbox to Treat Alzheimer Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com. REFERENCES 1. FDA Converts Novel Alzheimer's Disease Treatment to Traditional Approval. FDA. News release. July 6, 2023. Accessed July 27, 2023. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-converts-novel-alzheimers-disease-treatment-traditional-approval 2. van Dyck CH, Swanson CJ, Aisen P, et al. Lecanemab in early Alzheimer's disease. N Engl J Med. 2023;388:9-21. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2212948 3. Sims JR, Zimmer JA, Evans CD, et al. Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease: The TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. Published online July 17, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.13239
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Jill Farmer, DO, MPH, an assistant professor of neurology and director of the Parkinson's Disease & Movement Disorder Program at Global Neurosciences Institute, who spoke with us about the current landscape of care for women with Parkinson disease (PD), how the approach to their care can differ from men, the major gaps around education and treatment for these women, and much more. Looking for more Movement Disorder discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® movement disorder clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – The presentation of Parkinson disease for women 3:00 – Nonmotor symptoms that can create challenges for diagnosis 4:45 – OFF episodes and dyskinesia in women vs men 7:00 – Being attentive to patient needs in treatment 10:20 – The daily impact of Parkinson disease 13:05 – Neurology News Minute 16:30 – Encouraging women with Parkinson to participate in trials 18:30 – Barriers to care specific to women 20:00 – Communication with women patients 22:20 – Areas of need for research 23:35 – Conversations in areas of limited knowledge 25:20 – Closing thoughts This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Issues Complete Response Letter to Amneal for Parkinson Agent IPX203 FDA Grants Traditional Approval to Lecanemab as Therapy for Early-Stage Alzheimer Disease Medicare Expands Coverage for Fully Approved Alzheimer Agent Lecanemab FDA Approves Image Guided Programming Software for Vercise Deep Brain Stimulation Systems Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with a variety of specialists in neurology who presented research and gave talks at 4 recent major medical meetings—the Consortium of MS Centers Annual Meeting, the Annual Joint SLEEP Meeting, the Advanced Therapeutics in Movement and Related Disorders Congress, and the American Headache Society's Annual Scientific Meeting. Those included in this week's episode, in order of appearance, are: Amit Bar-Or, MD, FRCPC, FAAN, FANA, the Melissa and Paul Anderson President's Distinguished Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Gavin Giovannoni, MBBCh, PhD, FCP, FRCP, FRCPath, a professor of neurology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dayna Johnson, PhD, MPH, MSW, MS, a sleep epidemiologist and assistant professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. John Winkelman, MD, PhD, the chief of the Sleep Disorders Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Laxman Bahroo, DO, a professor of neurology and the residency program director at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Ling Wan-Albert, OTD, OTR/L, an assistant professor of occupational therapy at the New York Institute of Technology. Sara Pavitt, MD, the chief of headache at UT Austin Dell Children's Hospital. Ali Ezzati, MD, the director of the Neuroinformatics Program at the University of California, Irvine. Want more from all of NeurologyLive's coverage of these medical meetings—including dozens more interviews with expert clinicians—click the links below: Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Annual Meeting SLEEP, the Joint American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society Meeting Advanced Therapeutics in Movement and Related Disorders Congress American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Bar-Or on the potential of BTK inhibition in multiple sclerosis at CMSC 2023 4:40 – Giovannoni on the understanding of MS as a smoldering disease at CMSC 2023 10:30 – Johnson on multilevel efforts to address modifiable factors of sleep health at SLEEP 2023 13:05 – Winkelman on moving away from dopamine agonists as first-line treatments for restless legs syndrome at SLEEP 2023 15:30 – Bahroo on the role of botulinumtoxins in Parkinson disease care at ATMRD 2023 19:00 – Wan-Albert on the impact of social isolation on cognition at ATMRD 2023 22:10 – Pavitt on the universal knowledge about pediatric headache for neurologists and nonspecialists at AHS 2023 24:05 – Ezzati on the use of machine learning models to improve treatment optimization in heterogenous migraine at AHS 2023 This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Drs. Rana McKay and Jonathan Rosenberg highlight key advances in genitourinary cancers featured at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting, including the THOR study in mUCC, VESPER in muscle-invasive bladder cancer, CONTACT-03 in mRCC, and TALAPRO-2 in mCRPC. TRANSCRIPT Dr. Rana McKay: Hello, and welcome to the ASCO Daily News Podcast. I'm Dr. Rana McKay, your guest host for the podcast today. I'm a GU medical oncologist at the Morris Cancer Center at the University of California in San Diego and an associate professor at the University of California in San Diego School of Medicine. Joining me today is Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg, the chief of the Genitourinary Oncology Service at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. We'll be discussing practice-changing studies and other key advances in genitourinary cancers that were featured at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting. You'll find our full disclosures in the transcript of this episode, and disclosures of all guests featured on the ASCO Daily News Podcast are available on our transcripts at asco.org/DNpod. Jonathan, it's great to have you with us today. How are you? Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: I'm doing very well. Thanks so much for hosting today. Dr. Rana McKay: Oh, of course. It's always fun to step back from ASCO and reflect on all the practice-changing and practice-informing studies that were presented. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: Absolutely. Dr. Rana McKay: Maybe we can dive right in with LBA4619. This is the much-talked-about THOR study of erdafitinib versus chemotherapy in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer with select FGFR alterations. What are your key takeaways from this study? Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: It is indeed a study we've been waiting for, for quite some time, to see the results in the confirmatory study after the accelerated approval of erdafitinib. This is half of the THOR trial. There were 2 cohorts of patients. One cohort were patients who previously received a checkpoint inhibitor randomized to chemotherapy or erdafitinib, and those data were reported at ASCO this year. The other cohort was randomized against a checkpoint inhibitor in patients who have not received a checkpoint inhibitor, and we'll see those data in a future meeting. The bottom line for the THOR study is that FGFR3 inhibition improved overall survival compared with chemotherapy, and the chemotherapy in this study was a taxane. The overall survival was 12.1 months for erdafitinib compared to 7.8 months for chemotherapy with a hazard ratio of 0.64. This led to the DMC to stop the study and blind the data and cross people over. There was also a PFS advantage. There really weren't a lot of new toxicity signals seen; the usual suspects in terms of mucositis, hyperphosphatemia, diarrhea, dry mouth, and onycholysis. And so, what it tells us ultimately is that in a patient who's progressed on a checkpoint inhibitor, we can feel comfortable about using erdafitinib knowing it provides a survival advantage in patients who've been previously treated for advanced urothelial cancer and have an FGFR alteration, either an FGFR2 or 3. And hopefully, we'll see more data in the future from the study, maybe not too long in the future from the other part of the study, comparing it to checkpoint inhibition. Dr. Rana McKay: That's really exciting. I think it's exciting to see the data about the positivity of erdafitinib versus chemotherapy in this context. Looking at the phase 3 data is going to be really important. Looking at the data in the IO naive context is going to be really important. I feel like this sort of reaffirms what we've been doing in clinical practice. But how do you feel that the study is practice-changing? Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: I think it gives us reassurance that for these patients, erdafitinib is an appropriate option. There's no randomized data between erdafitinib and other choices, such as sacituzumab, which is also based on an accelerated approval, or enfortumab, which is based on randomized phase 3 trial. But it gives us level-1 evidence. I do wonder whether the comparison against the checkpoint inhibitor may turn out differently, but we'll see. Those data aren't in evidence. And I do think it was interesting that the majority of patients who were enrolled on the trial were PDL-1 low. We'll see what the comparison to a checkpoint inhibitor is like and whether those patients have similar characteristics. Dr. Rana McKay: Yeah, you're almost kind of selecting for people that were not primed to respond. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: Exactly. Dr. Rana McKay: Well, that's really exciting, I think. Moving on to localized bladder cancer, Dr. Pfister presented the results of the VESPER trial. That's LBA4507. I think this study was really important. This was a trial that explored dose-dense MVAC with methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin or gemcitabine-cisplatin as a perioperative chemotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. I think there's always been some discussion around these regimens and how they pair up against one another. Can you tell us about these data? Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: It's a very interesting study. It was designed back when it was felt that we could not give patients neoadjuvant therapy. And it was designed as either a neoadjuvant or adjuvant approach. Although, in reality, almost everybody who was enrolled in the study got neoadjuvant chemotherapy, which I think speaks to the shift in practice over the last 10 to 15 years towards neoadjuvant rather than adjuvant therapy. It's an interesting trial in that it used a duration of chemotherapy for the MVAC regimen, the dose-dense MVAC regimen that we don't usually use, which is 6 cycles. And functionally, about 40% of patients couldn't make it to 6 cycles and had to stop sooner, versus 4 cycles of q3-week gemcitabine and cisplatin. And what the data show is that the progression-free survival for the entire intent-to-treat population didn't reach significance. But if you looked at the neoadjuvant population only, there was an improvement in progression-free survival as well as overall survival. So, it's sort of a negative positive trial. Negative for the primary endpoint, but positive for key secondary endpoints. They did a very interesting analysis looking at the number of cycles that patients received regardless of arm, but looking at it by arm. And it's clear from that analysis that the more chemotherapy they got, the better they did. Although, the flaw in that analysis is that the healthier patients are, the more chemotherapy they're able to tolerate, and therefore that may translate to an improved overall survival irrespective of the amount of chemotherapy. And this was not necessarily a pre-specified analysis. I think some of the statisticians were clutching their chests during the report of this trial, having talked to several afterward. On the other hand, it does say to me that for a fit, younger patient, it is important to consider dose-dense MVAC instead of gemcitabine and cisplatin. I'll also note, reading the publication from the first part of the trial, that it appears that nobody over 70 was enrolled from everything I could tell. And so, I question the validity of the tolerability of the results for the average 75-year-old that I see in my practice. Although age is not a bright line cut-off for anybody in terms of cancer treatment. But my own experience has been that dose-dense MVAC has been harder to tolerate for a lot of patients in their 70s, whereas I think we should feel quite comfortable giving it to patients in their sixties. And if you ask me how many cycles I would give, I probably wouldn't say 6, for dose-dense MVAC, I would probably say 4. Dr. Rana McKay: Was there a predilection that there was a more aggressive disease like nodal disease or other things to prompt the 6 versus 4? Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: I think that they stopped primarily for toxicity reasons, but it wasn't clear to me that it was a disease-based issue. And for the neoadjuvant therapy, everyone was supposed to be clinically node-negative on entry, so that probably wouldn't have explained it. Dr. Rana McKay: Very exciting. I know that the data were quite provocative, but I think it's always difficult to interpret these sorts of subgroup of subgroup analyses, and there's a lot of bias in why people may get more versus less. And I think trying to reduce these data to clinical practice is going to be really important, as you've stated. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: Rana, I'd also like to talk about some key advances in renal cell carcinoma that were reported at ASCO. Dr. Choueiri presented data on LBA4500, the CONTACT-03 study, which really was the first study of its kind in solid tumors because it addressed a major question in the kidney cancer field and in other fields: Is there a role for immunotherapy rechallenge after progression on immunotherapy? Specifically, the study looked at the efficacy and safety of atezolizumab plus cabozantinib versus cabozantinib alone after progression with prior immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in metastatic RCC. I'd like you to tell me what you think of this study and the results and how they may affect our practice. Dr. Rana McKay: Absolutely. This was a critically important study looking at the role of IO post-progression on IO. It was a large phase 3 trial that enrolled patients with clear cell and non-clear cell patients. It actually allowed patients with papillary RCC, unclassified RCC, to enroll in the study, whereas most of these studies are excluding patients with non-clear cell disease. Patients had to have progressed on an immune checkpoint inhibitor given either as adjuvant first line or second line, given either as a single agent or in combination with one of the other combos, whether a VEGF or IO. And patients were randomized one-to-one to receive the combination of atezolizumab plus cabozantinib versus cabozantinib alone. And the dosing of the cabozantinib here is at 60 milligrams in the combination, which is the standard dosing of cabozantinib monotherapy. And the primary endpoints for the trial included PFS and OS. And in essence, this trial was a completely negative study. The primary endpoint, which was centrally reviewed, rPFS, was negative. The hazard ratio there was 1.03. Overall survival was also negative with a hazard ratio of 0.94. And when you look at the subgroup analyses, there really wasn't any specific subgroup that seemed to derive any benefit, potentially those that had a prior response to an immune checkpoint inhibitor, but in essence, a negative study. And I think these data are really informative because the discussion at ASCO was conducted by Dr. David Braun, and he actually had conducted a very highly scientific Twitter poll to help guide how to interpret the data and what people do. And from that, about 30% of individuals that completed the poll were actually layering on IO therapy, and continuing IO therapy after somebody progressed on therapy layering in a TKI while keeping the IO backbone going. And I think what this study proves is that we really don't have any really robust data to guide doing that at the present time. And what we may end up doing is compromising the efficacy of the oral TKI or dose-compromising the oral TKI to try to maintain an ineffective IO. And so, I think at the present time these data, while negative, were truly practice-informing. There are other studies that are looking at this strategy as well. I think one of the criticisms here is that atezolizumab really has not had a great track record in renal cell carcinoma in every single context where it was tested, either alone or in combination. It has not met its primary endpoint and it's not utilized as a treatment in RCC. So, there's some discussion that could this be the fact that this is a PDL-1 inhibitor and that it's atezolizumab. And additionally, I think the thing to point out for is that in the modern era if we look at the cabozantinib control arm, cabozantinib in the refractory setting had a PFS of 10.8 months, which is pretty impressive for a later line PFS, if you will. So, there is another study currently ongoing called the TiNivo-2 study that's looking at tivozanib plus nivolumab versus tivozanib alone in a similar patient population. That trial is enrolling only clear cell patients that had progressed on prior IO. So, I think we'll have additional data, but very, I think, informative. I think this question comes up in a lot in other tumor sites as well because of the broad use of checkpoint inhibitors across hematologic and solid tumor malignancies. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: I think this was the most informative negative study and the most negative trial I've seen in a while as well. But it did highlight the importance of asking these questions where people assume they know the answer already, and in fact, we often don't, and our assumptions are wrong. So, I thought that was fascinating and very well described. Staying in the kidneys arena. I'd like to talk to you also about the phase 2 KEYNOTE-B61, that's Abstract 4518. It looked at first-line lenvatinib and pembrolizumab across non-clear cell carcinomas. Tell me what you thought of the trial and what your takeaways were. Dr. Rana McKay: This is an important study. I think the treatment of non-clear cell RCC has lagged. I guess the advances have lagged behind clear cell RCC, and really robust phase 3 randomized studies in people with non-clear cell histologies are very limited. This was a single-arm phase 2, so I think we need to kind of take that for what it's worth, that enrolled patients who had non-clear cell RCC per investigator that had received no prior systemic therapy. So, this was a frontline study, and patients received pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib until disease progression or toxicity. The study enrolled a very robust 158 patients, which is pretty impressive for a modern-day non-clear cell cohort. We've seen data from nivo-cabo that had gotten presented previously by Dr. Lee. That study was a single institution, about 40 patients or so if you will. The primary endpoint of this study was objective response rate, and the bulk of the patients that were enrolled were papillary RCC. As you would imagine, around 60% of patients were papillary. It did include around 18% with chromophobe RCC. And when we break things down by IMDC risk category, about 44% of patients were favorable-risk disease. I think the percentage of patients who were favorable is higher than if we were to take an all-comer metastatic RCC patient population. But the objective response rate was pretty impressive at 49% with this combination. The CR rate was right around 5.7%. So, I think certainly a pretty solid signal of efficacy. But again, this is a single-arm phase 2 study. I think what's also really interesting, and I think we have to take subset analyses with a grain of salt if you will, but there were responses that were seen across all histologies. And the prior nivo-cabo study that I had shared with you had previously done a futility analysis for patients with chromophobe RCC, and that cohort actually closed down. And in this study, the response rate for the chromophobe patients, though it wasn't a lot of patients, 29 patients with chromophobia RCC, was around 27.6%, so I think these data are certainly informative. If you look at the waterfall plot, there were some deep responses that were certainly observed, and the bulk of patients had some degree of tumor shrinkage with very little patients that had primary PD. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: It's really provocative. So, are we getting to a point where we might start thinking about randomized trials in the non-clear cell population to try to establish the best standard of care? Dr. Rana McKay: Well, I think PAPMET2 is currently enrolling patients. That study is looking at the combination of cabozantinib with atezolizumab versus cabozantinib alone for frontline papillary. PAPMET1, which was led by Dr. Pal, I mean, these studies are really magnanimous because it takes all hands on deck to get these patients enrolled because they're few and far between. So, I definitely think we need to be moving in that direction. And I think we need to be moving away from lumping all non-clear cells into one bucket because I think what we're seeing is that, one, the biology of these tumors is very distinct and unique, and they don't all behave the same to any one given therapy. So, we really need to move away from just lumping all non-clear cells into one bucket and try to actually conduct studies for each specific subtype. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: Understood and agree. Let's switch gears for a second and talk about prostate cancer. Can you talk about the data from Abstract 5004, the TALAPRO-2 study of talazoparib and enzalutamide compared to placebo and enzalutamide as a first-line treatment with metastatic CRPC that have HR homologous recombination repair gene alterations? Dr. Rana McKay: Absolutely. So the TALAPRO-2 study is one of three studies that have looked at the combination of PARP inhibitors with an ARSI in the frontline mCRPC setting. And this trial randomized patients to talazoparib and enzalutamide versus placebo enzalutamide. And again, this was first-line mCRPC. Patients were allowed to have received prior docetaxel or prior abiraterone in the castration-sensitive setting, and the primary endpoint was overall survival. At GU ASCO this year, we saw the top-line data from TALAPRO-2 first get presented. And what was actually presented at this meeting was the subset of patients that were HRR-mutated only. They had two cohorts: an all-comer cohort that was previously presented, and then now they're presenting the subset of the patients that were HRR-mutated. And I think what we've seen across the board is that the efficacy of PARP inhibitors kind of differs by underlying HRR mutations. When we look at the entire population of HRR-deficient patients, the study was positive, talazoparib plus enzalutamide resulted in an improvement in rPFS compared to enzalutamide placebo. The hazard ratio there was 0.45. And then when we break things down by selected gene groups, they did this subset analysis in patients with only BRCA1, only BRCA2, only PALB2, only CDK12, ATM CHEK2 if you will. The data are most robust for those patients with a BRCA1/2 alteration with hazard ratios of 0.17, 0.19. Again, this is for rPFS. But then, when we look at some of these other mutations, like ATM CHEK2, hazard ratios are higher, 0.76, 0.90. So, the effect size really kind of drops off for those non-BRCA1/2 altered HRR genes. But if we look across the different subgroup analyses, the interim OS data for the HR deficient, the time to PSA, time to cytotoxic chemo, all of that favored the combination versus placebo enzalutamide for patients that were HR deficient if we just lumped everybody all together. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: How does this fit into the general landscape around this question with selection versus not selecting for HRR alterations? Dr. Rana McKay: The data that were presented were for the selected patients, and I think that that's not where the controversy is. I think that the selected patients are the ones that seem to derive the most benefit. It's interesting because in looking at the data from PROpel and the final FDA label based off of the PROpel data, the label is only for BRCA1 and 2 patients and not for all comer HRR. It's even a more restricted label than olaporib monotherapy. So, I think it's going to be interesting. I don't know what the right answer is. I think it's going to be interesting to see how this is going to unfold for TALAPRO-2 and even for MAGNITUDE, if you will, like, how select is the selected population going to be. But at the present time, I think the label is what it is for olaparib plus abiraterone in those BRCA1/2 frontline. My hope is that this population is shrinking because everybody should be getting escalated in the metastatic hormone-sensitive setting, and we shouldn't be having people who are naive to an ARSI in frontline mCRPC. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: Understood and agreed. Dr. Rana Mckay: Well, thank you so much, Jonathan, for joining me today. It's really been a pleasure kind of going through all of the compelling advances in GU cancers from ASCO. I think it was a really exciting meeting, and thanks for your time. Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg: My pleasure. It's been great to talk to you today. 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Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Ann Marie Morse, DO, FAAN, a pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist at Geisinger Medical Center, who sat down with NeurologyLive at the annual SLEEP meeting to discuss the landscape of challenges narcolepsy-related challenges that patients face, the influence of gut health on sleep apnea, how nighttime disruptions can affect treatment decisions, emerging concepts of care, and much more. Looking for more Sleep Disorder discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® sleep disorder clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Factors at play in obstructive sleep apnea 3:40 – Literature on the gut microbiome's role in sleep 5:55 – Lingering needs in narcolepsy treatment 8:30 – Neurology News Minute 12:40 – The effect of disrupted nighttime sleep 15:45 – Emerging concepts in sleep medicine This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Biogen and Denali Terminate Phase 3 LIGHTHOUSE Study of BIIB122 in LRRK2-related Parkinson Disease FibroGen's Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Antibody Pamrevlumab Falls Short in Phase 3 Phase 2/3 Study of Blarcamesine in Pediatrics With Rett Syndrome Completes Enrollment FDA Places Hold on Phase 1 Study of Exon Skipping Therapy PGN-EDODM1 in Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy FDA Panel Votes in Favor of Eisai's Lecanemab for Early Alzheimer Disease Post-Marketing Study of Andexanet Alfa Stopped Early After Achieving Prespecified Efficacy Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
In recent years, the life science and pharmaceutical industries have experienced unprecedented growth. As this momentum continues, it is critical for companies in Pharma and Life Science sectors to effectively engage with their target audience, demonstrating empathy and understanding of their unique circumstances. By fostering trust-based relationships, these companies can ensure long-term success. Scott Vail from MJH Life Sciences, my guest today, will share valuable insights on how organizations can strategically position themselves to achieve their goals and make a positive impact in the industry.How can Pharma/Life science companies ensure that their marketing efforts are reaching a qualified, response-driven audience, and why is this so important in this particular industry?With so many different marketing channels how do Pharma/Life Science companies decide which channels to optimize with consistent messaging?The media landscape is constantly evolving, particularly in the digital space, How can Pharma/Life Science companies adapt to these changes, and what strategies are proving to be most effective for reaching and engaging with their target audience?Despite the popularity of digital marketing, print is still a relevant channel for pharmaceutical and life science offers. Why is this the case, and how can companies effectively leverage print in their overall marketing mix?For more information about how to find quality marketing data to reach your ideal niche client, contact Donna Peterson at 860-210-8088 or dpeterson@worldinnovators.com.Visit our website at http://www.worldinnovators.comThe information in this episode is only the tip of the iceberg. To learn more, subscribe and get notifications on new episodes when they become available.================================== Let's Connect: LinkedIn Live Tuesday 4:00 pm EST https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnaapeterson/ ================================== Subscribe now and join the conversation!
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Brandon Giglio, MD, a vascular neurologist and clinical assistant professor of neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, as well as the director of Vascular Neurology at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. As May is annually designated as Stroke Awareness Month in the United States, Giglio sat down with us to extend that time of awareness and share his insight into the current public understanding of stroke, how effective the care paradigm is at prevention and poststroke care, and much more. Looking for more Stroke discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® stroke clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Breaking down the signs and symptoms of stroke with B.E. F.A.S.T 2:45 – The importance of stroke awareness 3:55 – Treating patients with poststroke symptoms 5:45 – Neurology News Minute 10:40 – Notable risk factors for stroke 13:15 – The critical need for novel education tools in stroke This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Potential Path for Phase 3 Study of AOC 1001 in Myotonic Dystrophy Becomes Clear After FDA Ease's Clinical Hold FDA Grants Fast Track Designation for Atrial Fibrillation Therapy Asundexian FDA Pushes Back Decision Date for Duchenne Gene Therapy SRP-9001 FDA Accepts NDA for DHE Nasal Powder Product STS101 for Acute Migraine CMS Announces Plan to Provide Coverage of Antiamyloid Therapies for Alzheimer Disease Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
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As a follow-up to an episode earlier this year and the FDA clearances of the technology that forms the iLet Bionic Pancreas, hosts sat down in the MJH Life Sciences studio for a special edition recording to explore the implications of the clearance, dispel misconceptions surrounding the system, and hypothesize about the future of this technology in people with diabetes.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with James Berry, MD, PhD, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital ALS Care Center. At the 2023 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, he spoke about new data from a study assessing CNM-Au8, a nanocrystal formulation in development for patients with ALS and other neurological diseases. Additionally, he talked about the current unmet needs in the ALS community, including the need for more diverse treatment options and increased research. Looking for more Multiple Sclerosis discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® neuromuscular clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:15 – Clinical development program of CNM-Au8 3:40 – Safety findings, treatment responses of CNM-Au8 4:20 – Next steps in research 6:25 – Neurology News Minute 8:45 – Conducting safe trials 10:00 – Remaining unmet needs for patients with ALS 11:15 – Need for additional research This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Approves Brexpiprazole as First Therapy for Alzheimer Agitation FDA Panel Votes in Favor of Gene Therapy SRP-9001 for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Tight Decision Alzheimer Agent COYA 301 Halts Cognitive Decline, Restores Regulatory T Cell Dysfunction in Phase 1 Study Phase 2 Data Highlight Fenebrutinib's Impact on Brain Lesions in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com. REFERENCES 1. Berry J, Maragakis N, Paganoni S, et al. Evidence for Survival Benefit in ALS with CNM-Au8 Treatment Across Three Study Populations. Presented at: 2023 AAN Annual Meeting; April 22-27, Boston, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with a variety of specialists in neurology who presented research and gave talks at the 75th American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, held April 22-27, 2023, in Boston, Massachusetts. Those included in this week's episode, in order of appearance, are: Michael H. Barnett, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, a consultant neurologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) Sydney, director of the RPAH MS Clinic and the MS Clinical Trials Unit at the Brain and Mind Centre; codirector of the MS Research Australia Brain Bank; and a senior professor at the University of Sydney. Nancy R. Foldvary-Schaefer, DO, FAAN, the director of the Sleep Disorders Center and staff in the Epilepsy Center at Cleveland Clinic, and a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Sean J. Pittock, MD, the director of the Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology and director of the Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. Katherine W. Turk, MD, a neurologist at Boston VA Memory Disorders Clinic, principal investigator and codirector of the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience lab (CTCN) at VA Boston; and assistant professor of neurology and coleader of the Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement core of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Boston University. Erika U. Augustine, MD, MS, the associate chief science officer and director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Jeffrey M. Statland, MD, a neuromuscular disease specialist and professor of neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Chian-Chun Chiang, MD, a stroke and migraine specialist and assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic. Want more from the 75th American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting? Click here for all of NeurologyLive®'s coverage of AAN 2023. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Barnett on the topline findings for CNM-Au8 from the VISIONARY-MS clinical trial. 8:35 – Foldvary-Schaefer on the understanding of the relationship between epilepsy and sleep. 13:25 – Pittock on the latest data on ravulizumab from the CHAMPION-NMOSD trial. 19:00 – Turk on the landscape of diagnosis and treatment for mild cognitive impairment, and how to improve the process. 22:00 – Augustine on Dr. Sidney Carter and the current paradigm of care in child neurology. 27:15 – Statland on the findings for ataluren in nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy from Study 041. 34:05 – Chiang on the takeaways from a big data analysis of 25 therapies for acute migraine management. This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com. REFERENCES 1. Barnett MH. VISIONARY-MS Top-line Results: A Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Parallel Group, Placebo-controlled Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of CNM-Au8, a Catalytically Active Gold Nanocrystal Suspension in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis. Presented at: AAN Annual Meeting; April 22-27, 2023; Boston, MA. 2. Foldvary-Schaefer NR. Diagnostic Testing: Beyond the MSLT. Presented at: AAN Annual Meeting; April 22-27, 2023; Boston, MA. 3. Pittock SJ. Efficacy and safety of ravulizumab in adults with anti-aquaporin-4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: outcomes from the phase 3 CHAMPION-NMOSD trial. Presented at: AAN Annual Meeting; April 22-27, 2023; Boston, MA. 4. Statland JM. Safety and Efficacy of Ataluren in nmDMD Patients from Study 041, a Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Presented at: AAN Annual Meeting; April 22-27, 2023; Boston, MA. 5. Chiang CC. Simultaneous Comparisons of 25 Acute Migraine Medications: A Big Data Analysis of 10 Million Patient Self-Reported Treatment Records From A Migraine Smartphone Application. Presented at: AAN Annual Meeting; April 22-27, 2023; Boston, MA.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with with Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD, director of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, and a professor of neurology and biomedical informatics at the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. He discussed the recent CASA-MS study that he and colleagues conducted into a subgroup of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who develop rapid and progressive disability at a relatively young age, which he presented earlier this year at the 2023 Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in MS Forum, and the critical effectively need to treat this group of patients. The study was carried out at The Boston Home, a specialized residential facility for individuals with advanced progressive neurological disorders, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and at the University at Buffalo, in New York. Looking for more Multiple Sclerosis discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® multiple sclerosis clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Background on the CASA-MS study subpopulation 3:45 – Topline results of the study 6:05 – The need for further clarification in MS populations 7:10 – The utility of biomarkers such as GFAP 12:15 – Further assessment plans for the CASA-MS cohort 14:15 – Neurology News Minute 18:35 – Access to the tools to characterize progressive MS 21:30 – The potential with portable MRI and artificial intelligence 25:25 – Unmet needs in progressive MS This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Phase 3 Study of GTX-104 in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Expected to Proceed Following FDA Feedback FDA Places Partial Hold on Evobrutinib Initiation in Newly Enrolled Patients With MS FDA Panel Votes in Favor of Brexpiprazole as Potential Therapy for Alzheimer Agitation FDA Approves IntelGenx and Gensco's Rizatriptan for Acute Migraine Treatment DEA Rules Fenfluramine No Longer a Controlled Substance Atogepant's Indication Expanded to Include Prevention of Chronic Migraine FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation to Reach Neuro's Chronic Stroke Platform FDA Approves CSL Behring's Immune Globulin Subcutaneous Prefilled Syringe for PI and CIDP Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com. REFERENCE 1. Zivadinov R, Jakimovski D, Burnham A, et al. Comprehensive Assessment of Severely Affected Multiple Sclerosis (CASA-MS) Study. Presented at: ACTRIMS Forum; February 25-28, 2023; San Diego, CA. P430. www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10822/presentation/468
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Dilesh Doshi, PharmD, vice president of Health Economic and Outcomes Research at Acadia Pharmaceuticals. He spoke on the advantages and benefits of pimavanserin (Nuplazid; Acadia), the only FDA-approved therapy to treat Parkinson disease psychosis. Additionally, he discussed recent data that compared efficacy and safety of other off-label therapies such as clozapine and quetiapine. Looking for more Parkinson disease discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® movement disorder clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:10 – Mechanistic differences between pimavanserin and other atypical antipsychotics 3:00 – Understanding drug-to-drug interactions for PDP 5:05 – Decision making with quetiapine and negative cognitive effects 7:10 – Improved use of pimavanserin since approval 9:00 – Neurology News Minute 11:40 – Potential predictors of mortality in Parkinson disease psychosis 15:20 – Possibility of preventing PD psychosis 17:20 – Future research on identifying subgroups of responders to treatment This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Tiziana Announces Planned Phase 2 Study of Foralumab in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Blarcamesine Deemed Safe, Effective in Phase 2 Extension Study of Parkinson Disease Dementia Eplontersen Continues to Show Clinical Benefit in Long-Term Analysis of hATTR Polyneuropathy Reldesemtiv to be Discontinued in ALS Following Data Monitoring Committee Analysis Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Eric Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He spoke on a recently conducted study assessing the link between narcolepsy in adolescents and social relationship health. Specifically, he talked about how the sleep disorder impacts mood, physical activities, driving, and other long-term health outcomes, as well as ways we can help adolescents with narcolepsy at the earliest stages. Looking for more narcolepsy discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® narcolepsy clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:20 – Identified links between narcolepsy and social relationships 3:05 – Long-term impacts of affected mood, physical activities, and driving 4:15 – Current assessment of narcolepsy in adolescents 5:30 – Neurology News Minute 8:05 – Attempts to prevent narcolepsy at earliest stages 9:15 – Implementing programs in school to help adolescents with narcolepsy 11:20 – Future research on narcolepsy in younger populations This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA to Hold AdComm Meeting for Investigational DMD Treatment SRP-9001 Treg Suppressing Agent COYA 302 Shows Slowing of ALS Disease Progression FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for AbbVie's 24-Hour Continuous Carbidopa/Levodopa Pump FDA AdComm Panel Supports Neurofilament Light as Surrogate Biomarker for Tofersen, With Questions Regarding Clinical Benefit Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Elizabeth “Eli” Pollard, vice president & chief education and training officer at the Parkinson's Foundation, and the executive director of the World Parkinson Coalition. She spoke about the foundation's ongoing efforts in providing education about Parkison disease (PD), the challenges of managing a growing population of patients, the need for community physicians and specialists to work in unison, and more. >>Click here to access the Parkinson Foundation's educational series. Looking for more Parkinson disease discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® PD disease spotlight page. Episode Breakdown: 1:20 – The need for education across the PD care paradigm 4:40 – An overview of the 6-part educational series 6:10 – The inclusion of specialties such as dentistry in the care of PD 9:40 – Using training to overcome gaps in multidisciplinary care 13:05 – Challenges in educating a large population of providers 16:55 – Neurology News Minute 19:00 – Improving access to clinical education 24:07 – The Foundation's goal to inspire learning to improve care 26:30 – Closing thoughts This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Approves Theranica's Nerivio for Preventive Treatment of Migraine FDA Approves Omaveloxolone As First Treatment for Friedreich Ataxia FDA Accepts Supplemental BLA for Traditional Approval of Lecanemab FDA Clears Abbott's Alinity i Lab-Based Blood Test for Traumatic Brain Injury Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.
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Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Darin Okuda, MD, director of Neuroinnovation and Multiple Sclerosis & Neuroimmunology Imaging Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He spoke about the phase 2 ARISE study assessing dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera; Biogen) in patients with radiologically isolated syndrome, the significance of the findings, next steps in validating this therapy, and more. Looking for more multiple sclerosis discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® multiple sclerosis clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:20 – Overview of ARISE and conduct of study 4:20 – Potential subgroup responders to dimethyl fumarate 8:10 – Efforts to improve the detection of radiologically isolated syndrome 10:05 – Neurology News Minute 11:55 – Next steps of research following ARISE 16:50 – Closing thoughts on significance of the study This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: CNM-Au8 Shows Positive Findings on MS-Related Biomarkers of Whole Brain, White Matter Aducanumab's Label Updated to Include Risks on Brain Bleeding Primary Care Physicians Show Greater Confidence in Diagnosing Alzheimer Disease Through DISCERN Skin Test FDA Approves Extended-Release Deutetrabenazine for Huntington Disease Chorea, Tardive Dyskinesia Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com. REFERENCE Okuda DT, Kantarci O, Lebrun-Frenay C, et al. Dimethyl fumarate delays multiple sclerosis radiologically isolated syndrome. Ann Neurol. 2023;93(3):604-614. doi:10.1002/ana.26555
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Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Carolina Ferreira Atuesta, MD, MSc, a scientific researcher and clinical data manager at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She spoke about research she and colleagues recently presented at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting on poststroke epilepsy, the ongoing clinical efforts to manage seizures occurring after stroke, what studies still need to explore, and more. Looking for more epilepsy discussion? Check out the NeurologyLive® epilepsy clinical focus page. Or, for more stroke-focused content, check out our stroke clinical focus page. Episode Breakdown: 1:20 – Background on the multicenter study 3:30 – Goals of the study and main findings 5:25 – Surprising findings from the study 6:50 – The understanding of this association in clinical care 9:25 – Neurology News Minute 11:55 – Current state of prognostication post stroke 16:50 – The lack of standardized approach to monitoring 20:50 – Lingering needs for future studies 22:55 – Closing thoughts This episode is brought to you by Medical World News, a streaming channel from MJH Life Sciences®. Check out new content and shows every day, only at medicalworldnews.com. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: FDA Accepts New Drug Application for Duchenne Therapy Vamorolone Enrollment for Pivotal Phase 3 PHOENIX Study of AMX0035 Completed Alzheimer's Association Panel Offers Considerations for New Definition of Meaningful Change in Drug Trials Sanofi Discontinues Phase 3 Study of Tolebrutinib in Myasthenia Gravis Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com. REFERENCES 1. Atuesta FC. Seizures After Ischemic Stroke: A Matched Multicenter Study. Presented at: AES Annual Meeting; December 2-6, 2022; Nashville, TN, and virtual. SIG. 2. Ferreira-Atuesta C, Döhler N, Erdélyi-Canavese B, et al. Seizures after Ischemic Stroke: A Matched Multicenter Study. Ann Neurol. 2021;90(5):808-820. doi:10.1002/ana.26212
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“My White Coat Doesn't Fit” by Narjust Florez (Duma): a medical oncologist shares her story about exclusion, depression and finding her way in oncology as a Latina in medicine and oncology. TRANSCRIPT Narrator: My White Coat Doesn't Fit, by Narjust Duma, MD (10.1200/JCO.21.02601) There I was, crying once again all the way from the hospital's parking lot to my apartment, into the shower, and while trying to fall asleep. This had become the norm during my internal medicine residency. For years, I tried hard every day to be someone else in order to fit in. It started with off-hand comments like “Look at her red shoes,” “You are so colorful,” and “You are so Latina.” These later escalated to being interrupted during presentations with comments about my accent, being told that my medical school training in my home country was inferior to my US colleagues, and being assigned all Spanish-speaking patients because “They are your people.” Some of those comments and interactions were unintentionally harmful but led to feelings of isolation, and over time, I began to feel like an outsider. I came to the United States with the dream of becoming a physician investigator, leaving behind family, friends, and everything I knew. Over time, I felt pigeonholed into a constricting stereotype due to my ethnicity and accent. Back home, I was one of many, but in this new setting, I was one of a few, and in many instances, I was the only Latina in the room. I was raised by divorced physician parents in Venezuela; my childhood years were often spent in the clinic waiting for my mother to see that one last patient or outside the operating room waiting for my father to take me home. The hospital felt like my second home, growing up snacking on Graham crackers and drinking the infamous hospital's 1% orange juice. “She was raised in a hospital,” my mother used to say. Sadly, that feeling of being at home in the hospital changed during medical training as I felt isolated and like I did not belong, making me question my dream and the decision to come to the United States. I remember calling my family and crying as I asked “Why did I leave?” “Why didn't you stop me from coming here?” and seeking permission to return home. I felt like I was disappointing them as I was no longer the vivid, confident young woman who left her home country to pursue a bright future. I remember one colleague, Valerie (pseudonym), from Connecticut. Valerie attended medical school in the United States, did not have an accent, and was familiar with the American health care system. She understood how the senior resident-intern relationship functioned, a hierarchy that continually confused me. Over the following weeks, I took a closer look at how my colleagues and other hospital staff interacted with Valerie. I noticed that people did not comment about her clothing or personality. She was “normal” and fit in. I remember my senior resident asking me, “Narjust, why can't you be more like Valerie?” Ashamed, I mumbled that I would try and then ran to the bathroom to cry alone. That interaction was a turning point for me; I got the message. I needed to change; I needed to stop being who I was to be accepted. As the years passed, I kept key pieces of my personality hidden, hoping I could earn the respect of my colleagues. I refrained from sharing my personal stories as they were different from those around me. I grew up in a developing country with a struggling economy and an even more challenging political situation. It was clear that we simply did not share similar experiences. When I sought help from my senior residents and attending physicians, my feelings were often minimized or invalidated. I was told that “residency is tough” and that I should “man up.” A few even suggested that I mold my personality to fit the box of what a resident physician was supposed to be. I slowly realized that my clothing changed from reds and pinks to greys and blacks because it was “more professional”; my outward appearance faded, as did my once bright sense of humor and affability. All these issues led to depression and an overwhelming sense of not belonging. A few months later, I was on antidepressants, but the crying in the shower continued. Rotation by rotation, I looked for a specialty that would help me feel like I belonged, and I found that in oncology. My mentor embraced my research ideas; my ethnic background or accent did not matter; we had the same goal, improving the care of our patients with cancer. I got to travel to national and international conferences, presented my research findings, and received a few awards along the way. From the outside, it looked like I was thriving; my mentor often called me a “Rising Star,” but in reality, I was still deeply depressed and trying to fit in every day. My career successes led me to believe that not being myself was the right thing to do. I felt isolated; I was trying to be someone I was not. A year later, I matched at my top choice oncology fellowship program; the program had the balance I was looking for between clinical care and research. This meant that I needed to move to the Midwest, further away from family, and to an area of the country with less racial and ethnic diversity. After 2 years on antidepressants and the 10 extra pounds that came with it, my white coat did not fit. My white coat felt like a costume that I would put on every day to fulfill the dream of being a doctor. I would often wake up in the middle of the night exhausted and depressed. I had all the responsibilities of a hematology/ oncology trainee and the additional full-time job of trying to fit in every day; I was using all my energy trying to be someone I was not. Regardless of my fears, I felt in my element when talking to patients and interacting with my cofellows. Despite having a different skin color and accent, I felt accepted by my patients with cancer. I remember when one of my patients requested to see me while in the emergency room because “Dr Duma just gets me.” She had been evaluated by the head of the department and attending physicians, but for her, I washer doctor. Tears of happiness accompanied my bus ride to see her; at that moment, I knew I was an oncologist, and oncology was the place I belonged. The next day, I realized that it was time to be myself: Narjust from Venezuela, a Latina oncologist who was her true self. I searched the bottom of my closet for the last piece of colorful clothing I had saved, a yellow dress. I put on that brightly colored dress for the first time in 5 years and finally felt comfortable being my authentic self; the yellow dress represented freedom and embraced the culture and colors I grew up seeing in my hometown. I finally understood that I brought something special to the table: my unique understanding of the challenges faced by Latinx patients and trainees, my advocacy skills, and my persistence to endure the academic grindstone. Psychotherapy was also an essential part of my recovery; I learned that happiness lived within me as a whole person—hiding my accent, cultural background, and past experiences was also hiding the light and joy inside me. Along the way, I found colleagues who faced the same challenges and validated that my experiences resulted from an environment that excludes the difference and values homogeneity. This route to self-discovery helped me find my calling to support others in situations similar to mine.3 I learned how to incorporate and celebrate my ethnicity in the world of academic oncology by teaching others the power of cultural humility, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Together with newfound friends and colleagues, I cofounded the #LatinasinMedicine Twitter community for those who face similar burdens during their training and careers. The #LatinasinMedicine community was created to share our stories, embrace our culture, and amplify other Latinas in medicine—to create connections that alleviate the sense of isolation that many of us have experienced and serve as role models to the next generation of Latinas in medicine. To help drive systemic change, I founded the Duma Laboratory, a research group that focuses on cancer health disparities and discrimination in medical education. Through research, the Duma Laboratory has shown that my experiences are not unique but rather an everyday reality for many international medical graduates and other under-represented groups in medicine. The Duma Laboratory has become a safe environment for many trainees; we seek to change how mentorship works for under-represented groups in oncology, with the hope that the isolation I felt during my training is not something that future physicians will ever have to endure. After years of depression and self-discovery, my white coat now fits. However, this is not your regular white coat; it has touches of color to embrace my heritage and the ancestors who paved the way for me to be here today. The face of medicine and oncology is changing around the world; young women of color are standing up to demonstrate the strength of our experiences and fuel the change that medical education needs. For all minority medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty, we belong in medicine even during those moments when our identity is tested. Through my journey, I learned that we can and must challenge the status quo. I hope to inspire others to join me in this path of advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion because the time for change is now. I was finally free the moment I realized I could not be anyone else but myself, a proud Latina in medicine and oncology. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, which offers a range of educational and scientific content and enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all of the shows including this one at podcast.asco.org. I'm your host, Lidia Shapira, Associate Editor for Art of Oncology and Professor of Medicine at Stanford. And with me today is Dr. Narjust Duma, Associate Director of the Cancer Care Equity Program and Medical Thoracic Oncologist at Dana Farber and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. We'll be discussing her Art of Oncology article, ‘My White Coat Doesn't Fit.' Our guest has a consulting or advisory role with AstraZeneca, Pfizer, NeoGenomics Laboratories, Janssen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Medarax, Merck, and Mirati. Our guest has also participated in a speaker's bureau for MJH Life Sciences. Narjust, welcome to our podcast. Dr. Narjust Duma: Thank you for the invitation and for letting us share our story. Dr. Lidia Schapira: It's lovely to have you. So, let's start with a bit of background. Your essay has so many powerful themes, the story of an immigrant in the US, the story of resilience, the story of aggression and bullying as a recipient of such during training, of overcoming this and finding not only meaning, but really being an advocate for a more inclusive and fair culture in the workplace. So, let's untangle all of these and start with your family. I was interested in reading that you're named after your two grandmothers, Narcisa and Justa. And this is how your parents, both physicians, Colombian and Dominican, gave you your name, and then you were raised in Venezuela. So, tell us a little bit about your family and the values that were passed on in your family. Dr. Narjust Duma: Thank you for asking. Having my two grandmothers names is something that my mother put a lot of effort into. She was a surgery resident with very limited time to decide to do that. And I don't have a middle name, which is quite unique in Latin America, most people in Latin America have one or two middle names. So, my mother did that to assure that I will use her piece of art, which is my first name. But little does she know that my grandmothers were going to be such an important part of my life, not only because they're in my name, but also because I am who I am thanks to them. So, the first part of my name, Narcisa was my grandma who raised me and she gave me the superpower of reading and disconnecting. So, I'm able to read no matter where I am and how loud it can be and disconnect with the world. So, it is often that my assistants need to knock on my door two or three times so, I don't like being scared because I'm able to travel away. That was also very unique because you will find me in the basketball games from high school or other activities with a book because I was able to block that noise. But it also makes very uncomfortable situations for my friends that find it embarrassing that I will pull a book in the basketball game. And as I grow, thanks to the influence of my grandmothers, I always have these, how can I say, mixed situation, in which they were very old school grandmothers with old school habits and values, and how I'm able to modify that. My grandma told me that you can be a feminist, but you still take care of your house. You can still, you know, cook. And that taught me that you don't have to pick a side, there is no one stereotype for one or another. Because as my mother being a single mother and a surgeon, my parents divorced early on, told me, ‘Yes, I can be the doctor but I can also be the person that has more than a career that's able to have hobbies.' I love cooking, and when I'm stressed, I cook. So, I had a grant deadline a few weeks ago and I cooked so much that there was food for days. So, having the names of my grandmothers is very important because I have their values, but I have modified them to the current times. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Let me ask a little bit about reading. I often ask the guests of this podcast who have written and therefore I know enjoy reading and writing, what their favorite books are or what is currently on their night table. But I'm going to ask you a second question and that is what languages do you read in? Dr. Narjust Duma: I prefer to read in Spanish. I found that books in Spanish, even if it's a book that originated in English, have these romantic characteristics. And I often tell my editors, ‘Just take into account that I think in Spanish, and write in English'. Because I grew up with Gabrielle Garcia Marquez, and when he describes a street, that's a page of the little things that he describes. So, that's how I write and that's how I read in a very romantic, elaborate way. The aspects of realistic imagism, which is my favorite genre in literature, and there are so many Latin American and South American writers that I don't think that I am going to run out. And when I run out, I reread the same books. I have read all of Gabrielle Garcia Marquez's books twice, and Borges, too. It's the type of stories that allows you to submerge yourself and you imagine yourself wearing those Victorian dresses in the heat of a Colombian street, as you try to understand if, you know, Love in the Time of Cholera, if they were more in love with being in love or what it was happening in the story. And that just gives me happiness on a Sunday morning. Dr. Lidia Schapira: That's beautiful. I must confess that reading Borges is not easy. So, I totally admire the fact that you have managed to read all of his work. And I think that you're absolutely right, that magical realism is a genre that is incredibly fresh, and perhaps for the work that we do in oncology, it's a wonderful antidote in a way to some of the realities, the very harsh realities that we deal with on a daily basis. So, let me ask you a little bit about growing up in Venezuela in the 80s, 90s, early aughts. That must have been difficult. Tell us a little bit about that, and your choice of attending medical school. Dr. Narjust Duma: So, growing up in Venezuela, with a Colombian mother, it was quite a unique perspective because she was very attached to her Colombian roots. So, a lot of the things that happened in the house were very Colombian, but I was in Venezuela. So, it was a unique characteristic of being from a country but your family is not from there. So, my parents are not from Venezuela, my grandparents either, and I'm Venezuelan because I was born and raised there. So, that brought a unique perspective, right? The music that I played in my house was Colombian music, not Venezuelan music. So, my family migrated from Colombia to Venezuela due to the challenges in the early 80s with violence and the Medellin, due to the drug cartels. So, we moved to Venezuela for a better future. And growing up in the first years, Venezuela was in a very good position. Oil was at the highest prices. Economically, the country was doing well. I remember, in my early years, the dollar and the bolivar had the same price. But then little by little I saw how my country deteriorated, and it was very heartbreaking. From a place where the shells were full of food to a place now when there is no food, and you go to the supermarket, and many of them are close. And now you're only limited to buying certain things. And you used to use your federal ID that has an electronic tracking on how much you can buy because of socialism. So, you're only allowed to buy two kilograms of rice per month, for example, you're only allowed to buy this number of plantains. So, every time I go home, because Venezuela is always going to be my home, it doesn't matter where I am., I see how my country has lost pieces by pieces, which is quite very hard because I had a very good childhood. I had a unique childhood because I was raised in hospitals. But I had a childhood in which I will play with my friends across the street. We were not worried about being kidnapped. We were not worried about being robbed. That's one thing that children in Venezuela cannot do right now. Children of doctors – there's a higher risk of being kidnapped as a kid right now if your father is a doctor or your mother. So, my childhood wasn't like that. When I teach my students or talk to my mentees, I'm often selling my country, and saying that's not what it used to be. That's not where I grew up. But every year I saw how it no longer is where I grew up. That place doesn't exist, and sometimes, Lidia, I feel like my imagination may have to fill it out with more good things. But I think it was a good childhood. It's just that nobody in Venezuela is experiencing what I experienced as a kid. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, both parents were doctors and you chose to study medicine, was this just right out of high school? Dr. Narjust Duma: Even before high school, I found myself very connected to patients. So, since I turned 15, my father would give his secretary a month of vacation because that's the month that we fill in. So, I was the secretary for a month every summer since I was 15 until I was 20. That early exposure allowed me to like get to know these patients and they know I was the daughter, but I was also the secretary. So, I really cherished that. Growing up in my household, we're a house of service. So, our love language is acts of service. That's how pretty much my grandmas and my parents were. So, in order to be a physician, that's the ultimate act of service. I have wanted to be a doctor since I was 11. I think my mother face horrible gender harassment and sexual harassment as a female in the surgery in the early 80s, that she tried to push me away from medicine. Early on, when I was 11, or 12, being an oil engineer in Venezuela was the career that everybody should have, right? Like, people were going to the Emirates and moving to different parts of the world and were doing wonderful. So, my mother, based on her experience in the 80s, was pushing me away from it. She's like, ‘You can do other things.' My father always stayed in the back and said, ‘You can do what you want.' This is how our parents' experiences affect our future. If I wouldn't be this stubborn, I would probably be an oil engineer today, and I wouldn't be talking to you. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, you went to medical school, and then after you graduated, what did you decide to do? Because when I look at what we know about the history there is I think you graduated in '09, and then the story that you write about sort of begins in '16 when you come to New Jersey to do training in the US, but what happened between '09 and '16? Dr. Narjust Duma: I started residency in 2013. '16 was my fellowship. So, going to medical school was one of the hardest decisions I made because right in 2003 and 2004 was a coup in Venezuela where part of the opposition took over the country for three days, and then the President of the time came back and the country really significantly destabilized after that coup. Most schools were closed. Entire private industries were closed for a month. And I think for some people, it's hard to understand what happened. Everything closed for a month, McDonald's was closed for a month. There was no Coke because a Coke company was not producing. Everything was closed. The country was just paralyzed. So, my mother and I, and my family, my father, took into account that we didn't know when medical school would resume in Venezuela. We didn't know if the schools would ever open again. I decided to apply for a scholarship and I left Venezuela at the age of 17 to go to the Dominican Republic for medical school. Very early on, I noticed that I was going to be a foreigner wherever I go because I left home. And since then, I think I became very resilient because I was 17 and I needed to move forward. So, that is what happened in 2004. I left everything I knew. I left for the Dominican. I do have family in the Dominican, but it was very hard because even if you speak the same language, the cultures are very different. And then I went to medical school in the Dominican and when I was in the Dominican Republic, I realized I really wanted to do science and be an advocate and focus on vulnerable populations with cancer. So, then I made the decision to come to the United States, I did a year of a research fellowship at Fred Hutchinson, and then I went to residency in 2013. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I see. And that's when you went to New Jersey, far away from home. And as you tell the story, the experience was awful, in part because of the unkindness and aggression, not only microaggression but outright bullying that you experienced. In reading the essay, my impression was that the bullying was mostly on two accounts. One was gender. The other was the fact that you were different. In this particular case, it was the ethnicity as a Latin or Hispanic woman. Tell us a little bit about that so we can understand that. Dr. Narjust Duma: I think what happened is that perfect example of intersectionality because we are now the result of one experience, we're the result of multiple identities. So many woman have faced gender inequalities in medicine, but when you are from a marginalized group, those inequalities multiply. I have an accent and clearly a different skin color. I grew up in a family in which you were encouraged to be your true self. My grandmothers and my mother said, ‘You never want to be the quiet woman in the corner because the quiet woman never generates change.' That's what they said, and I bet there are some who do. But that intersection of my identities was very challenging because I was seen as inferior just for being a woman and then you multiply being one of the few Latinas you are seen like you are less just because you are - it doesn't matter how many degrees or papers or grants you had done and all, I was the most productive research resident in my residency for two years in a row - but I would still be judged by my identity and not what I have produced, or what I do on my patients' experiences, which were great – the feedback from my patients. It's just because I was the different one. Dr. Lidia Schapira: When I hear your story about your origins, it seems to me that you came from a very capable loving family, and they basically told you to go conquer the world, and you did. And then you arrive and you're a productive successful resident, and yet, you are marginalized, as you say. People are really aggressive. Now that you've had some years that have passed, if you think back, what advice would you give that young Narjust? Dr. Narjust Duma: My number one advice, would be that, I will tell myself is that I belong, in many instances, I feel like I didn't belong. It makes me question all the decisions to that day because when you're doing a presentation, and I still remember like today, and you're interrupted by someone, just for them to make a comment about your accent, it really brings everything down to your core, like, 'Is my presentation not accurate? Is the information not all right? And why am I here? Why did I left everything I love to be treated like this?' Dr. Lidia Schapira: Of course. So, from New Jersey, you write in your essay that you really discover your passion for cancer research, and you land in a fellowship with a mentor who is encouraging, and things begin to change for you. Can you tell us a little bit about that phase of your training in your life where you slowly begin to find your voice in the state, that also where you crash, where you find yourself so vulnerable that things really fall apart? Dr. Narjust Duma: So, when I was a resident, I didn't know exactly - I was interested in oncology, but I wasn't sure if it was for me. So, Dr. Martin Gutierrez at Rutgers in Hackensack is the person who I cold emailed and said, ‘I'm interested in studying gastric cancer in Hispanic patients because I think that patients in the clinic are so young.' He, without knowing me or having any idea, he trusted me. We still meet. He still follows up with me. He encouraged me. I think him being a Latino made the experience better, too, because I didn't have to explain my experience to him. I didn't have to explain that. He understood because he went through the same things. And he's like, ‘I got you. Let's follow what you want to do.' He embraced who I was, and how I put who I was into my research. And thanks to Dr. Gutierrez, I'm at the Mayo Clinic as an international medical grad. So, finding a place in which my ideas were embraced was very important to allow me to stay in medicine because, Lidia, I can tell you several times, I decided to leave. I was very committed to finding something else to do or just being a researcher and leaving clinical medicine behind. So, when I went to Mayo, I still followed with that mentor, but I already knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to do cancer health disparities. I wanted to do inclusion and diversity. And that allowed me to develop the career I have now and is having that pathway because I, with my strong personality and everything else, faced this discrimination, and I can imagine for other trainees that may still be facing that or will face that in the future. So, I use the negative aspects to find my calling and do many things I have done after that. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Speaks to your strengths and your determination. Let's talk a little bit about the people who may also feel different but whose differences may not be so apparent. How do you now as an emerging leader, and as a mentor, make sure that you create an inclusive and safe environment for your younger colleagues and your mentees? Dr. Narjust Duma: One of the things that resulted was the founding of the Duma Lab, which is a research group that focuses on cancer, health disparities, social justice as a general, and inclusion in medical education. So, one of the things that I practice every day is cultural humility. I continue to read and remember the principles. I have them as the background on my computer at work. The number one principle in lifelong learning is that we learn from everyone and that we don't know everything and other people's cultures, and subculture, we learn their culture is rich. So, in every meeting, I remind the team of the principles of cultural humility when somebody is joining the lab. I have one-on-one meetings, and I provide information and videos about cultural humility because the lab has been created as an environment that's safe. We have a WhatsApp group that is now kind of famous - it's called The Daily Serotonin. The majority of the members of the lab are part of marginalized groups, not only by gender but race, religion, sexual and gender orientation. So, we created this group to share good and bads, and we provide support. So, a few weeks ago, a patient made reference to one of their lab member's body, the patient was being examined and that was quite inappropriate. The member debriefed with the group and we all provided insights on how she had responded, and how she should respond in the future. That's not only learning from the person that brought the scenario but anybody else feels empowered to stop those microaggressions and stop those inappropriate behaviors that woman particularly face during clinical care. So, cultural humility, and having this WhatsApp group that provides a place where, first, I remind everybody that's confidential, and a place in which anything is shared has been very successful to create inclusivity in the group. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You have such energy and I'm amazed by all of the things that you can do and how you have used social connection as a way of bringing people up. So, can you give our listeners perhaps some tips for how you view creating a flatter culture, one with fewer hierarchies that makes it safer for learners and for those who are practicing oncology? What are three quick things that all of us can do in our work starting this afternoon? Dr. Narjust Duma: The concept is that we all can be allies. And being an ally doesn't take a lot of time or money because people think that being an ally is a full-time job, it is not. So, the first one tip will be to bring people with you. Your success is not only yours. It's a success of your mentees. It's a success of your colleagues. So, don't see your success as my badge on my shoulder. It's the badge that goes on everyone. So, bring people in, leave the door open, not only bring them but leave the door open because when you do it helps the next generation. Two, little things make a difference. I'm going to give you three phrases that I use all the time. When you think somebody has been marginalized in a meeting, bring them up, it takes no time. For example, 'Chenoa, what do you think we can do next?' You're bringing that person to the table. Two, you can advocate for other women and minorities when they're easily interrupted in a meeting. This takes no time. ‘I'm sorry you interrupted Dr. Duma. Dr. Duma?' So, that helps. The third thing is very important. You can connect people. So, one of the things is that I don't have every skill, so I advocate for my mentees and I serve as a connector. I have a mentee that is into bioinformatics. Lidia, that's above my head. I don't understand any of that. So, I was able to connect that person to people that do bioinformatics. And follow up. My last thing is to follow up with your people because they need you. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Well, I'm very glad that you're not an oil engineer in the Emirates. I'm sure your family is incredibly proud. I hope that you're happy where you are. We started a little bit about where you started, I'd like to end with your idea of where you imagine yourself 10 years from now? Dr. Narjust Duma: That is a question I don't have an answer prepared for. I guess my career development plans I think I want to be in a place where I look back and I can see that the careers of my mentees being successful. And I think that we measure my success based not on myself, I would measure my success in 10 years based on where my mentees are. And medical education is a more inclusive place. That will be the two things I want to see in 10 years. In the personal aspect, I don't know if we have art, don't know if we have those grants as long as my mentees are in a better place. Dr. Lidia Schapira: It has been such a pleasure to have this conversation. Thank you so much, Narjust. Dr. Narjust Duma: Thank you. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology podcast. 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Narrator: My White Coat Doesn't Fit, by Narjust Duma, MD (10.1200/JCO.21.02601) There I was, crying once again all the way from the hospital's parking lot to my apartment, into the shower, and while trying to fall asleep. This had become the norm during my internal medicine residency. For years, I tried hard every day to be someone else in order to fit in. It started with off-hand comments like “Look at her red shoes,” “You are so colorful,” and “You are so Latina.” These later escalated to being interrupted during presentations with comments about my accent, being told that my medical school training in my home country was inferior to my US colleagues, and being assigned all Spanish-speaking patients because “They are your people.” Some of those comments and interactions were unintentionally harmful but led to feelings of isolation, and over time, I began to feel like an outsider. I came to the United States with the dream of becoming a physician investigator, leaving behind family, friends, and everything I knew. Over time, I felt pigeonholed into a constricting stereotype due to my ethnicity and accent. Back home, I was one of many, but in this new setting, I was one of a few, and in many instances, I was the only Latina in the room. I was raised by divorced physician parents in Venezuela; my childhood years were often spent in the clinic waiting for my mother to see that one last patient or outside the operating room waiting for my father to take me home. The hospital felt like my second home, growing up snacking on Graham crackers and drinking the infamous hospital's 1% orange juice. “She was raised in a hospital,” my mother used to say. Sadly, that feeling of being at home in the hospital changed during medical training as I felt isolated and like I did not belong, making me question my dream and the decision to come to the United States. I remember calling my family and crying as I asked “Why did I leave?” “Why didn't you stop me from coming here?” and seeking permission to return home. I felt like I was disappointing them as I was no longer the vivid, confident young woman who left her home country to pursue a bright future. I remember one colleague, Valerie (pseudonym), from Connecticut. Valerie attended medical school in the United States, did not have an accent, and was familiar with the American health care system. She understood how the senior resident-intern relationship functioned, a hierarchy that continually confused me. Over the following weeks, I took a closer look at how my colleagues and other hospital staff interacted with Valerie. I noticed that people did not comment about her clothing or personality. She was “normal” and fit in. I remember my senior resident asking me, “Narjust, why can't you be more like Valerie?” Ashamed, I mumbled that I would try and then ran to the bathroom to cry alone. That interaction was a turning point for me; I got the message. I needed to change; I needed to stop being who I was to be accepted. As the years passed, I kept key pieces of my personality hidden, hoping I could earn the respect of my colleagues. I refrained from sharing my personal stories as they were different from those around me. I grew up in a developing country with a struggling economy and an even more challenging political situation. It was clear that we simply did not share similar experiences. When I sought help from my senior residents and attending physicians, my feelings were often minimized or invalidated. I was told that “residency is tough” and that I should “man up.” A few even suggested that I mold my personality to fit the box of what a resident physician was supposed to be. I slowly realized that my clothing changed from reds and pinks to greys and blacks because it was “more professional”; my outward appearance faded, as did my once bright sense of humor and affability. All these issues led to depression and an overwhelming sense of not belonging. A few months later, I was on antidepressants, but the crying in the shower continued. Rotation by rotation, I looked for a specialty that would help me feel like I belonged, and I found that in oncology. My mentor embraced my research ideas; my ethnic background or accent did not matter; we had the same goal, improving the care of our patients with cancer. I got to travel to national and international conferences, presented my research findings, and received a few awards along the way. From the outside, it looked like I was thriving; my mentor often called me a “Rising Star,” but in reality, I was still deeply depressed and trying to fit in every day. My career successes led me to believe that not being myself was the right thing to do. I felt isolated; I was trying to be someone I was not. A year later, I matched at my top choice oncology fellowship program; the program had the balance I was looking for between clinical care and research. This meant that I needed to move to the Midwest, further away from family, and to an area of the country with less racial and ethnic diversity. After 2 years on antidepressants and the 10 extra pounds that came with it, my white coat did not fit. My white coat felt like a costume that I would put on every day to fulfill the dream of being a doctor. I would often wake up in the middle of the night exhausted and depressed. I had all the responsibilities of a hematology/ oncology trainee and the additional full-time job of trying to fit in every day; I was using all my energy trying to be someone I was not. Regardless of my fears, I felt in my element when talking to patients and interacting with my cofellows. Despite having a different skin color and accent, I felt accepted by my patients with cancer. I remember when one of my patients requested to see me while in the emergency room because “Dr Duma just gets me.” She had been evaluated by the head of the department and attending physicians, but for her, I washer doctor. Tears of happiness accompanied my bus ride to see her; at that moment, I knew I was an oncologist, and oncology was the place I belonged. The next day, I realized that it was time to be myself: Narjust from Venezuela, a Latina oncologist who was her true self. I searched the bottom of my closet for the last piece of colorful clothing I had saved, a yellow dress. I put on that brightly colored dress for the first time in 5 years and finally felt comfortable being my authentic self; the yellow dress represented freedom and embraced the culture and colors I grew up seeing in my hometown. I finally understood that I brought something special to the table: my unique understanding of the challenges faced by Latinx patients and trainees, my advocacy skills, and my persistence to endure the academic grindstone. Psychotherapy was also an essential part of my recovery; I learned that happiness lived within me as a whole person—hiding my accent, cultural background, and past experiences was also hiding the light and joy inside me. Along the way, I found colleagues who faced the same challenges and validated that my experiences resulted from an environment that excludes the difference and values homogeneity. This route to self-discovery helped me find my calling to support others in situations similar to mine.3 I learned how to incorporate and celebrate my ethnicity in the world of academic oncology by teaching others the power of cultural humility, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Together with newfound friends and colleagues, I cofounded the #LatinasinMedicine Twitter community for those who face similar burdens during their training and careers. The #LatinasinMedicine community was created to share our stories, embrace our culture, and amplify other Latinas in medicine—to create connections that alleviate the sense of isolation that many of us have experienced and serve as role models to the next generation of Latinas in medicine. To help drive systemic change, I founded the Duma Laboratory, a research group that focuses on cancer health disparities and discrimination in medical education. Through research, the Duma Laboratory has shown that my experiences are not unique but rather an everyday reality for many international medical graduates and other under-represented groups in medicine. The Duma Laboratory has become a safe environment for many trainees; we seek to change how mentorship works for under-represented groups in oncology, with the hope that the isolation I felt during my training is not something that future physicians will ever have to endure. After years of depression and self-discovery, my white coat now fits. However, this is not your regular white coat; it has touches of color to embrace my heritage and the ancestors who paved the way for me to be here today. The face of medicine and oncology is changing around the world; young women of color are standing up to demonstrate the strength of our experiences and fuel the change that medical education needs. For all minority medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty, we belong in medicine even during those moments when our identity is tested. Through my journey, I learned that we can and must challenge the status quo. I hope to inspire others to join me in this path of advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion because the time for change is now. I was finally free the moment I realized I could not be anyone else but myself, a proud Latina in medicine and oncology. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, which offers a range of educational and scientific content and enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all of the shows including this one at podcast.asco.org. I'm your host, Lidia Shapira, Associate Editor for Art of Oncology and Professor of Medicine at Stanford. And with me today is Dr. Narjust Duma, Associate Director of the Cancer Care Equity Program and Medical Thoracic Oncologist at Dana Farber and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. We'll be discussing her Art of Oncology article, ‘My White Coat Doesn't Fit.' Our guest has a consulting or advisory role with AstraZeneca, Pfizer, NeoGenomics Laboratories, Janssen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Medarax, Merck, and Mirati. Our guest has also participated in a speaker's bureau for MJH Life Sciences. Narjust, welcome to our podcast. Dr. Narjust Duma: Thank you for the invitation and for letting us share our story. Dr. Lidia Schapira: It's lovely to have you. So, let's start with a bit of background. Your essay has so many powerful themes, the story of an immigrant in the US, the story of resilience, the story of aggression and bullying as a recipient of such during training, of overcoming this and finding not only meaning, but really being an advocate for a more inclusive and fair culture in the workplace. So, let's untangle all of these and start with your family. I was interested in reading that you're named after your two grandmothers, Narcisa and Justa. And this is how your parents, both physicians, Colombian and Dominican, gave you your name, and then you were raised in Venezuela. So, tell us a little bit about your family and the values that were passed on in your family. Dr. Narjust Duma: Thank you for asking. Having my two grandmothers names is something that my mother put a lot of effort into. She was a surgery resident with very limited time to decide to do that. And I don't have a middle name, which is quite unique in Latin America, most people in Latin America have one or two middle names. So, my mother did that to assure that I will use her piece of art, which is my first name. But little does she know that my grandmothers were going to be such an important part of my life, not only because they're in my name, but also because I am who I am thanks to them. So, the first part of my name, Narcisa was my grandma who raised me and she gave me the superpower of reading and disconnecting. So, I'm able to read no matter where I am and how loud it can be and disconnect with the world. So, it is often that my assistants need to knock on my door two or three times so, I don't like being scared because I'm able to travel away. That was also very unique because you will find me in the basketball games from high school or other activities with a book because I was able to block that noise. But it also makes very uncomfortable situations for my friends that find it embarrassing that I will pull a book in the basketball game. And as I grow, thanks to the influence of my grandmothers, I always have these, how can I say, mixed situation, in which they were very old school grandmothers with old school habits and values, and how I'm able to modify that. My grandma told me that you can be a feminist, but you still take care of your house. You can still, you know, cook. And that taught me that you don't have to pick a side, there is no one stereotype for one or another. Because as my mother being a single mother and a surgeon, my parents divorced early on, told me, ‘Yes, I can be the doctor but I can also be the person that has more than a career that's able to have hobbies.' I love cooking, and when I'm stressed, I cook. So, I had a grant deadline a few weeks ago and I cooked so much that there was food for days. So, having the names of my grandmothers is very important because I have their values, but I have modified them to the current times. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Let me ask a little bit about reading. I often ask the guests of this podcast who have written and therefore I know enjoy reading and writing, what their favorite books are or what is currently on their night table. But I'm going to ask you a second question and that is what languages do you read in? Dr. Narjust Duma: I prefer to read in Spanish. I found that books in Spanish, even if it's a book that originated in English, have these romantic characteristics. And I often tell my editors, ‘Just take into account that I think in Spanish, and write in English'. Because I grew up with Gabrielle Garcia Marquez, and when he describes a street, that's a page of the little things that he describes. So, that's how I write and that's how I read in a very romantic, elaborate way. The aspects of realistic imagism, which is my favorite genre in literature, and there are so many Latin American and South American writers that I don't think that I am going to run out. And when I run out, I reread the same books. I have read all of Gabrielle Garcia Marquez's books twice, and Borges, too. It's the type of stories that allows you to submerge yourself and you imagine yourself wearing those Victorian dresses in the heat of a Colombian street, as you try to understand if, you know, Love in the Time of Cholera, if they were more in love with being in love or what it was happening in the story. And that just gives me happiness on a Sunday morning. Dr. Lidia Schapira: That's beautiful. I must confess that reading Borges is not easy. So, I totally admire the fact that you have managed to read all of his work. And I think that you're absolutely right, that magical realism is a genre that is incredibly fresh, and perhaps for the work that we do in oncology, it's a wonderful antidote in a way to some of the realities, the very harsh realities that we deal with on a daily basis. So, let me ask you a little bit about growing up in Venezuela in the 80s, 90s, early aughts. That must have been difficult. Tell us a little bit about that, and your choice of attending medical school. Dr. Narjust Duma: So, growing up in Venezuela, with a Colombian mother, it was quite a unique perspective because she was very attached to her Colombian roots. So, a lot of the things that happened in the house were very Colombian, but I was in Venezuela. So, it was a unique characteristic of being from a country but your family is not from there. So, my parents are not from Venezuela, my grandparents either, and I'm Venezuelan because I was born and raised there. So, that brought a unique perspective, right? The music that I played in my house was Colombian music, not Venezuelan music. So, my family migrated from Colombia to Venezuela due to the challenges in the early 80s with violence and the Medellin, due to the drug cartels. So, we moved to Venezuela for a better future. And growing up in the first years, Venezuela was in a very good position. Oil was at the highest prices. Economically, the country was doing well. I remember, in my early years, the dollar and the bolivar had the same price. But then little by little I saw how my country deteriorated, and it was very heartbreaking. From a place where the shells were full of food to a place now when there is no food, and you go to the supermarket, and many of them are close. And now you're only limited to buying certain things. And you used to use your federal ID that has an electronic tracking on how much you can buy because of socialism. So, you're only allowed to buy two kilograms of rice per month, for example, you're only allowed to buy this number of plantains. So, every time I go home, because Venezuela is always going to be my home, it doesn't matter where I am., I see how my country has lost pieces by pieces, which is quite very hard because I had a very good childhood. I had a unique childhood because I was raised in hospitals. But I had a childhood in which I will play with my friends across the street. We were not worried about being kidnapped. We were not worried about being robbed. That's one thing that children in Venezuela cannot do right now. Children of doctors – there's a higher risk of being kidnapped as a kid right now if your father is a doctor or your mother. So, my childhood wasn't like that. When I teach my students or talk to my mentees, I'm often selling my country, and saying that's not what it used to be. That's not where I grew up. But every year I saw how it no longer is where I grew up. That place doesn't exist, and sometimes, Lidia, I feel like my imagination may have to fill it out with more good things. But I think it was a good childhood. It's just that nobody in Venezuela is experiencing what I experienced as a kid. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, both parents were doctors and you chose to study medicine, was this just right out of high school? Dr. Narjust Duma: Even before high school, I found myself very connected to patients. So, since I turned 15, my father would give his secretary a month of vacation because that's the month that we fill in. So, I was the secretary for a month every summer since I was 15 until I was 20. That early exposure allowed me to like get to know these patients and they know I was the daughter, but I was also the secretary. So, I really cherished that. Growing up in my household, we're a house of service. So, our love language is acts of service. That's how pretty much my grandmas and my parents were. So, in order to be a physician, that's the ultimate act of service. I have wanted to be a doctor since I was 11. I think my mother face horrible gender harassment and sexual harassment as a female in the surgery in the early 80s, that she tried to push me away from medicine. Early on, when I was 11, or 12, being an oil engineer in Venezuela was the career that everybody should have, right? Like, people were going to the Emirates and moving to different parts of the world and were doing wonderful. So, my mother, based on her experience in the 80s, was pushing me away from it. She's like, ‘You can do other things.' My father always stayed in the back and said, ‘You can do what you want.' This is how our parents' experiences affect our future. If I wouldn't be this stubborn, I would probably be an oil engineer today, and I wouldn't be talking to you. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, you went to medical school, and then after you graduated, what did you decide to do? Because when I look at what we know about the history there is I think you graduated in '09, and then the story that you write about sort of begins in '16 when you come to New Jersey to do training in the US, but what happened between '09 and '16? Dr. Narjust Duma: I started residency in 2013. '16 was my fellowship. So, going to medical school was one of the hardest decisions I made because right in 2003 and 2004 was a coup in Venezuela where part of the opposition took over the country for three days, and then the President of the time came back and the country really significantly destabilized after that coup. Most schools were closed. Entire private industries were closed for a month. And I think for some people, it's hard to understand what happened. Everything closed for a month, McDonald's was closed for a month. There was no Coke because a Coke company was not producing. Everything was closed. The country was just paralyzed. So, my mother and I, and my family, my father, took into account that we didn't know when medical school would resume in Venezuela. We didn't know if the schools would ever open again. I decided to apply for a scholarship and I left Venezuela at the age of 17 to go to the Dominican Republic for medical school. Very early on, I noticed that I was going to be a foreigner wherever I go because I left home. And since then, I think I became very resilient because I was 17 and I needed to move forward. So, that is what happened in 2004. I left everything I knew. I left for the Dominican. I do have family in the Dominican, but it was very hard because even if you speak the same language, the cultures are very different. And then I went to medical school in the Dominican and when I was in the Dominican Republic, I realized I really wanted to do science and be an advocate and focus on vulnerable populations with cancer. So, then I made the decision to come to the United States, I did a year of a research fellowship at Fred Hutchinson, and then I went to residency in 2013. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I see. And that's when you went to New Jersey, far away from home. And as you tell the story, the experience was awful, in part because of the unkindness and aggression, not only microaggression but outright bullying that you experienced. In reading the essay, my impression was that the bullying was mostly on two accounts. One was gender. The other was the fact that you were different. In this particular case, it was the ethnicity as a Latin or Hispanic woman. Tell us a little bit about that so we can understand that. Dr. Narjust Duma: I think what happened is that perfect example of intersectionality because we are now the result of one experience, we're the result of multiple identities. So many woman have faced gender inequalities in medicine, but when you are from a marginalized group, those inequalities multiply. I have an accent and clearly a different skin color. I grew up in a family in which you were encouraged to be your true self. My grandmothers and my mother said, ‘You never want to be the quiet woman in the corner because the quiet woman never generates change.' That's what they said, and I bet there are some who do. But that intersection of my identities was very challenging because I was seen as inferior just for being a woman and then you multiply being one of the few Latinas you are seen like you are less just because you are - it doesn't matter how many degrees or papers or grants you had done and all, I was the most productive research resident in my residency for two years in a row - but I would still be judged by my identity and not what I have produced, or what I do on my patients' experiences, which were great – the feedback from my patients. It's just because I was the different one. Dr. Lidia Schapira: When I hear your story about your origins, it seems to me that you came from a very capable loving family, and they basically told you to go conquer the world, and you did. And then you arrive and you're a productive successful resident, and yet, you are marginalized, as you say. People are really aggressive. Now that you've had some years that have passed, if you think back, what advice would you give that young Narjust? Dr. Narjust Duma: My number one advice, would be that, I will tell myself is that I belong, in many instances, I feel like I didn't belong. It makes me question all the decisions to that day because when you're doing a presentation, and I still remember like today, and you're interrupted by someone, just for them to make a comment about your accent, it really brings everything down to your core, like, 'Is my presentation not accurate? Is the information not all right? And why am I here? Why did I left everything I love to be treated like this?' Dr. Lidia Schapira: Of course. So, from New Jersey, you write in your essay that you really discover your passion for cancer research, and you land in a fellowship with a mentor who is encouraging, and things begin to change for you. Can you tell us a little bit about that phase of your training in your life where you slowly begin to find your voice in the state, that also where you crash, where you find yourself so vulnerable that things really fall apart? Dr. Narjust Duma: So, when I was a resident, I didn't know exactly - I was interested in oncology, but I wasn't sure if it was for me. So, Dr. Martin Gutierrez at Rutgers in Hackensack is the person who I cold emailed and said, ‘I'm interested in studying gastric cancer in Hispanic patients because I think that patients in the clinic are so young.' He, without knowing me or having any idea, he trusted me. We still meet. He still follows up with me. He encouraged me. I think him being a Latino made the experience better, too, because I didn't have to explain my experience to him. I didn't have to explain that. He understood because he went through the same things. And he's like, ‘I got you. Let's follow what you want to do.' He embraced who I was, and how I put who I was into my research. And thanks to Dr. Gutierrez, I'm at the Mayo Clinic as an international medical grad. So, finding a place in which my ideas were embraced was very important to allow me to stay in medicine because, Lidia, I can tell you several times, I decided to leave. I was very committed to finding something else to do or just being a researcher and leaving clinical medicine behind. So, when I went to Mayo, I still followed with that mentor, but I already knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to do cancer health disparities. I wanted to do inclusion and diversity. And that allowed me to develop the career I have now and is having that pathway because I, with my strong personality and everything else, faced this discrimination, and I can imagine for other trainees that may still be facing that or will face that in the future. So, I use the negative aspects to find my calling and do many things I have done after that. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Speaks to your strengths and your determination. Let's talk a little bit about the people who may also feel different but whose differences may not be so apparent. How do you now as an emerging leader, and as a mentor, make sure that you create an inclusive and safe environment for your younger colleagues and your mentees? Dr. Narjust Duma: One of the things that resulted was the founding of the Duma Lab, which is a research group that focuses on cancer, health disparities, social justice as a general, and inclusion in medical education. So, one of the things that I practice every day is cultural humility. I continue to read and remember the principles. I have them as the background on my computer at work. The number one principle in lifelong learning is that we learn from everyone and that we don't know everything and other people's cultures, and subculture, we learn their culture is rich. So, in every meeting, I remind the team of the principles of cultural humility when somebody is joining the lab. I have one-on-one meetings, and I provide information and videos about cultural humility because the lab has been created as an environment that's safe. We have a WhatsApp group that is now kind of famous - it's called The Daily Serotonin. The majority of the members of the lab are part of marginalized groups, not only by gender but race, religion, sexual and gender orientation. So, we created this group to share good and bads, and we provide support. So, a few weeks ago, a patient made reference to one of their lab member's body, the patient was being examined and that was quite inappropriate. The member debriefed with the group and we all provided insights on how she had responded, and how she should respond in the future. That's not only learning from the person that brought the scenario but anybody else feels empowered to stop those microaggressions and stop those inappropriate behaviors that woman particularly face during clinical care. So, cultural humility, and having this WhatsApp group that provides a place where, first, I remind everybody that's confidential, and a place in which anything is shared has been very successful to create inclusivity in the group. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You have such energy and I'm amazed by all of the things that you can do and how you have used social connection as a way of bringing people up. So, can you give our listeners perhaps some tips for how you view creating a flatter culture, one with fewer hierarchies that makes it safer for learners and for those who are practicing oncology? What are three quick things that all of us can do in our work starting this afternoon? Dr. Narjust Duma: The concept is that we all can be allies. And being an ally doesn't take a lot of time or money because people think that being an ally is a full-time job, it is not. So, the first one tip will be to bring people with you. Your success is not only yours. It's a success of your mentees. It's a success of your colleagues. So, don't see your success as my badge on my shoulder. It's the badge that goes on everyone. So, bring people in, leave the door open, not only bring them but leave the door open because when you do it helps the next generation. Two, little things make a difference. I'm going to give you three phrases that I use all the time. When you think somebody has been marginalized in a meeting, bring them up, it takes no time. For example, 'Chenoa, what do you think we can do next?' You're bringing that person to the table. Two, you can advocate for other women and minorities when they're easily interrupted in a meeting. This takes no time. ‘I'm sorry you interrupted Dr. Duma. Dr. Duma?' So, that helps. The third thing is very important. You can connect people. So, one of the things is that I don't have every skill, so I advocate for my mentees and I serve as a connector. I have a mentee that is into bioinformatics. Lidia, that's above my head. I don't understand any of that. So, I was able to connect that person to people that do bioinformatics. And follow up. My last thing is to follow up with your people because they need you. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Well, I'm very glad that you're not an oil engineer in the Emirates. I'm sure your family is incredibly proud. I hope that you're happy where you are. We started a little bit about where you started, I'd like to end with your idea of where you imagine yourself 10 years from now? Dr. Narjust Duma: That is a question I don't have an answer prepared for. I guess my career development plans I think I want to be in a place where I look back and I can see that the careers of my mentees being successful. And I think that we measure my success based not on myself, I would measure my success in 10 years based on where my mentees are. And medical education is a more inclusive place. That will be the two things I want to see in 10 years. In the personal aspect, I don't know if we have art, don't know if we have those grants as long as my mentees are in a better place. Dr. Lidia Schapira: It has been such a pleasure to have this conversation. Thank you so much, Narjust. Dr. Narjust Duma: Thank you. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology podcast. 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Adam is the Chief Veterinary Officer at MJH Life Sciences and oversees the veterinary division that includes Fetch, dvm360, Firstline and VettED. He advocates for pet parents and animals and is passionate about spreading awareness on many topics so we decided to loosely focus on shelter vet care, but as what often happens , we talked about a number of interesting topics , including foster care and rescue organizations around the world, legislation protecting animal welfare and why having 4 little dogs is a great way to keep warm in the winter! I follow our chat with a talk on how expertise and confidence allow for more creative , fun, diversified and ultimately more effective ways of education and advising. Links:DVM360.com | Facebookhttps://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd.in%2FdNq54Aa&e=ATMvNTvRr2kQrWjfDirxailu1IYCsITCbFTPK3mQUPEpyba2Rjp35UfLNIP3YOyP-YrTlqJgjsckuC76bl7FY20&s=1dvm360 (@dvm360mag) • Instagram photos and videosdvm360.com (@dvm360) / TwitterDVM360.com: About | LinkedInFetch dvm360 Conference: Overview | LinkedInSeason 5 is a "Dogology" of tips, Q and A's, interviews, discussions and a deeper look UPWARD Dogology all with the goal of making the world a better place! Season 4 is interviews with people and organizations. Be part of the solution by listening, sharing, and reviewing. Season 3 dives deep into trending methods. Are they right for you and your dog? Season 2 shares the learning journey of my clients with dogs; always interesting and a great way to feel a connections with others who have similar experiences. Season 1 outlines my learning journey and dives into the limitations of positive reinforcement training and introduces cognitive behavioral therapy. https://www.upwarddogology.com/ Billie Groom | LinkedIn(2) UPWARD Dogology (@UDogology) / TwitterUPWARD Dogology (@upwarddogology) • Instagram photos and videosUpward Dogology | FacebookThanks to Open Strum for the music!Open Strum (facebook.com)