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Community Education Webinars

In partnership with The ALS Association, NEALS offers a variety of educational webinars for the ALS community.

Webinar topics include updates on clinical trials, best practices for clinical care, and current research efforts in ALS causes and treatments. Our webinars also offer participants the opportunity to ask questions directly of the experts running clinical trials and conducting research activities.
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ALSA-BIO3: Building future success through biomarkers

Speaker: Shafeeq S. Ladha, M.D., Barrow Neurological InstituteALSA-BIO3 is an observational clinical study funded by ALSA and the Fulton Family Foundation. In this study, biofluids as well as clinical and electrophysiologic measures…

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Actemra Clinical Trial Update

Dr. Shafeeq Ladha from Barrow Neurological Institute will review the clinical trial of Actemra in ALS patients and provide a trial update. He will discuss the rationale for using the drug, the role of inflammation in ALS progression and…

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Lazarus by Lunasin? Untangling an ALS X-File

On 16 May 2014, a news story appeared on American television and online, highlighting dramatic improvements in a patient with ALS taking a nutritional supplement called lunasin. This webinar will review how ALSUntangled…

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Environmental Risk Factors for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is thought to be a disease with a genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. Elijah Stommel, MD, PhD (Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) will discuss some potential important…

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ALS AT HOME: Bringing research home to you

Speakers: Jeremy Shefner, MD, PhD, Barrow Neurological Institute and Seward Rutkove, MD, Harvard Medical SchoolALS AT HOME is a new kind of research study that follows ALS disease progression and collects data on a number of different…

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Power Wheelchairs - The Basics and Beyond

Many people with ALS will use powered mobility during their disease course.  There are numerous powered mobility bases and hundreds of components and accessories to select from. Sara Feldman, PT, DPT, ATP, Temple University,…

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Advanced Imaging Tools for Accelerating Drug Development in ALS

Dr. Nazem Atassi, Massachusetts General Hospital, will discuss the most recent advancement in imaging tools that allow us to study the causes of ALS in patients, rather than in mice or cells. These novel imaging tools can be used in…