Join Us! Wednesday, April 21 at 11am EST
CDG CARE is delighted to feature the first in a series of patient education webinars for our CDG/NGLY1 Community. In partnership with Putting Rare Diseases Patients First!®, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity, this first 2-hour, interactive event is titled: The ABCs of Clinical Trials for the CDG/NGLY1 Community. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED, but you can watch the Webinar Streaming LIVE on YouTube by CLICKING HERE!
Who Should Register
Designed for participants to hear from the experts about the latest approaches to treating and studying CDGs & NGLY1...
- Patients
- Parents
- Caregivers
- Healthcare Professionals
What You'll Learn
Your participation in this FREE 2-hour program will help pave the path to new treatments by increasing the understanding around the importance of:
- Natural History Studies,
- Clinical Trials,
- And the value patients bring to the process
What to Expect
The program will consist of four, 20-minute sessions, each provided by one of our expert speakers introduced below.
We are collecting participant questions prior to the event. There will be ample time for Q&A after each presentation.
Session One
Introduction to the drug development and regulatory process and steps to making new treatments available to the CDG/NGLY1 Community
Session Two
Learn about the benefits of participating in natural history studies & the different types of clinical trials, including how to find them
Session Three
Voice of the Patient in Clinical Trials - hear from a rare disease clinical trial patient and their experience through the process
Session Four
Building the Foundation for a Brighter Future Together - better data, better quality and better outcomes
Meet Our Speakers
Eva Morava-Kozicz, MD, PhD
Professor of Medical Genetics,
Mayo Clinic
Editor in Chief, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
Andrew Edmondson, MD, PhD
Attending Physician,
Human Genetics & Metabolism,
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Christina Lam, MD
Attending Physician,
Seattle Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine
Lorna Speid, PhD, M.R.Pharm.S.
Founder & President, Putting Rare Diseases Patients First!
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Thank you. We will be in touch again soon.
This program is made possible by a generous grant from Travere Therapeutics.