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Standards of Care Meeting Series - Session 2 | MLD Newborn Screening: ScreenPlus, RUSP and Next Steps

By Cure MLD (other events)

Friday, March 5 2021 10:00 AM 12:00 PM EDT
 
ABOUT ABOUT

Event will take place 10:00am - 12:00pm EST

  • Dr. Melissa Wasserstein, Montefiore Medical Center — NY ScreenPlus pilot
  • Amy Gaviglio — NBS Counseling and Follow-up 
  • Shanna Quimby, Cure MLD/Gavin Fighting for a Cure — NBS for Leukodystrophies 
  • Dr. Jaap-Jan Boelens, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — Moderator 

These panelists working hard on newborn screening (NBS) will provide an update on MLD NBS from three different perspectives.  This will be a 30 minute presentation with an hour for moderated discussion.  The presentations (~10 minutes each) will provide respective updates and offer a plan of action for next steps.  The remaining hour of the meeting will be used to direct collaboration to advance agreed upon action items, and will include a suggested timeline and concrete next steps to coordinate work among advocates, clinicians, and researchers.