Podcast

Managing Your MS Patients in the Era of COVID-19

Launch Date

07/10/2020

Credit Amount

0.00 Expired

Credit Expires

07/10/2021

Faculty

Fred D. Lublin, MD, FAAN, FANA

Saunders Family Professor of Neurology

Director, The Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Fred D. Lublin, MD, FAAN, FANA

Fred D. Lublin, MD is the Saunders Family Professor of Neurology at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at that institution.

Dr. Lublin received his medical degree in 1972 from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine from the Bronx Municipal Hospital, Albert Einstein Medical Center, and his residency at the New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center.

As a neuroimmunologist, Dr. Lublin has a special interest in immune functions and abnormalities affecting the nervous system. He has been involved in both basic science and clinical research. He and his colleagues were among the first in the country involved with studies of Interferon beta-1b, which was approved by the Food & Drug Administration in 1993 to treat the relapsing-remitting form of Multiple Sclerosis. He is currently involved with several new clinical research protocols on promising agents for treating various aspects of MS. He was chairman of the National MS Society (USA) advisory committee on clinical trials of new drugs in Multiple Sclerosis and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Research Programs Advisory Committee. He was a member of the National MS Society National Board of Directors. He is past Chair of the New York City/Southern New York Chapter of NMSS Clinical Advisory Committee. He is a member of the International Medical & Scientific Board of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation. Dr. Lublin and his colleagues at the National MS Society have re-defined the clinical course definitions of MS, updated in 2014. He has chaired a task force on the ethics of placebo-controlled trials in MS. Dr. Lublin is a member of the international panel that periodically redefines the diagnostic criteria for MS (McDonald Criteria). Dr. Lublin is co-chair of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke MS Common Data Element committee and a member of their steering committee. He is a member of the WHO Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Diseases of the Nervous System working group on demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system. He was a Co-Chief and founding Editor of the journal Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders.

Dr. Lublin has published numerous scientific articles and is a member of many professional societies and advisory boards. Dr. Lublin has served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and to many pharmaceutical/biotech companies in all phases of new drug development and in preparation for presentation to the FDA and their advisory panels. He was the Principal Investigator of the NIH-sponsored multicenter Combination Therapy study in Multiple Sclerosis. In June of 2019, Dr. Lublin was awarded the June Halper Lifetime Achievement Award from the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers.

Statement of Need

While MS itself does not increase the risk of contracting COVID-19, treatment decisions should be individualized and made collaboratively between the patient and his or her healthcare provider during the current pandemic. It is imperative that clinicians recognize which patients will benefit from which disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), and that they address patient concerns and provide tools on what patients can do at home with family and caregivers.

This CMEOCast podcast focuses on treating patients with MS in accordance with current guidelines, including evaluating and assessing COVID-19 disease severity and individualizing therapeutic strategy based on patient, disease, and drug factors.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this CME/CE activity, participants should be able to optimize care of patients with MS during the COVID-19 era.

Financial Support

Supported by an educational grant from Celgene Corporation.

Target Audience

Physicians, PAs, nurse practitioners, pharmacists

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Dr.Lublin reports that he receives research support from Actelion Pharmaceuticals; Biogen; Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics Inc; National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS); Novartis; and Sanofi. He has consulting agreements, serves on advisory boards, or Data and Safety Monitoring Board for Acorda Therapeutics; Actelion Pharmaceuticals/Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Apitope; Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics Inc.; Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc.;Avotres; Biogen; EMD Serono, Inc; GW Pharmaceuticals; Immunic, Inc.; Innate Immunotherapeutics; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Mapi Pharma; MedDay Pharmaceuticals; MedImmune/Viela Bio; Mylan; Novartis; Orion Biotechnology; Polpharma; Receptos, Inc./Celgene Corporation; Roche/Genentech, Inc.; Sanofi/Genzyme Corporation; Teva Pharmaceuticals; The Population Council, Inc. and TG Therapeutics. He is a speaker for Sanofi (non-promotional).

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Tony Graham, MD (peer reviewer)
Mae Ochoa, RPh (peer reviewer)
Evan Luberger (planning committee)
Jan Perez (planning committee)
Sharon Tordoff (planning committee)

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