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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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ALSUntangled - Re-Opening the X-Files Screen Grab

ALSUntangled - Re-Opening the X-Files

In this webinar Richard Bedlack, MD, PhD, Duke ALS Clinic, reviews alternative and off-label treatments for ALS. He demonstrates the huge number of these, the reasons patients try them, and some of the risks involved. He also explains…

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Updates in Nutritional Interventions for ALS

Dr. Edward Kasarskis from the University of Kentucky joined Dr. Anne-Marie Wills and Registered Dietitian Jane Hubbard from Massachusetts General Hospital on March 4th to lead a discussion onnutritional…

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Research Updates - NEALS & MNDA

Dr. Terry Heiman-Patterson reviews the most significant takeaways from the Annual NEALS Meeting (November 4 - 6, 2015) and the International Symposium on ALS/MND (December 11 - 13, 2015) and discusses what these developments mean for…

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ALS and the Clinical Trial Process

Interested in enrolling in a trial, but need to understand the research process better? Watch this webinar for an introduction to the ALS clinical research process. Dr. James Berry, Co-Director of the Mass General Hospital ALS…

ALS Clinical Trial Pipeline Series - Fall 2015 Screen Grab

ALS Clinical Trial Pipeline Series - Fall 2015

Dr. Angela Genge, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, provides an update on drugs currently in development for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

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Compassion Fatigue in ALS

Monday, September 28, 2015 1:00pm - 2:00pm ETCaregivers, patients, and healthcare professionals are invited to join Mass General's Darlene Sawicki, NP, on Monday, September 28th for a webinar focused on compassion fatigue in…

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A "Cool" New Duke ALS Research Program Focused on ALS Reversals

Sometimes patients with ALS appear to recover lost functions. These "ALS reversals" may hold important clues to novel mimic syndromes, endogenous mechanisms that can overcome the disease, or even treatments that work. During this…

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Assistive Technology Options for Individuals with ALS

The objective of this presentation, provided by Sara Feldman, Physical Therapist at Drexel Neurosciences Institute, is to educate health professionals and PALS on where to begin when addressing high tech assistive technology…

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ALS Clinical Trial Pipeline Series - Spring 2015

Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, Mass General Hospital, discusses the ALS clinical trial pipeline and answers questions about the current state of clinical research. This webinar focuses on current and upcoming ALS clinical trials.