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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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Palliative Care in ALS Clinic

Presenter: Raghav Govindarajan, MD, University of MissouriGiven the complexity of issues accompanying an ALS diagnosis, professional organizations increasingly recommend that ALS patients and their families receive specialist palliative…

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ALS Clinical Trial Pipeline Series - Winter 2019

Dr. Jeremy Shefner, Barrow Neurological Institute, will review the ALS clinical trial pipeline and answers questions about the current state of clinical research.

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I Just Took a DNA test - Turns Out I Don't Have All the Answers

Are you one of the many pALS who had genetic testing this year? Grab your genetic test report and sit down with Jennifer Roggenbuck, MS, CGC, Genetic Counselor at The Ohio State University Medical Center, to discuss what it all means.…

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The Neuropathology of ALS: What can we learn?

Research experiments in ALS and other Neurodegenerative diseases are highly dependent on the study of human nervous system tissues.  Brain, spinal cord and other tissues are used for diagnosis as well as for discovery of disease…

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Gene-targeted Therapeutics for ALS

Presenter: Timothy Miller, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. LouisNovel gene-targeted therapies are being developed for ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases.  We will discuss how these drugs work and some of the research…

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Postcards from the Edge: Updates on Six Unusual ALS Projects.

In this webinar, Dr. Richard Bedlack, Duke ALS Clinic, will provide new information on six "outside the box" projects he is leading: ALSUntangled, ALS Reversals, ALS-CRLI, and upcoming trials with a spice, a banned substance and a…

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Accelerating Therapy Development and Expanding Access

Speaker: Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, Director, Sean M. Healey and AMG Center for ALS at Mass GeneralAn update on targets and treatments in development will be shared. In addition, Dr. Cudkowicz will share information on the Healey ALS Platform…