Fight SMA Sends Spinal Muscular Atrophy Doctor to ASENT Conference
On Thursday, March 8, 2007, American Society For Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) devoted a section of their 9th Annual Meeting to the Fundamentals of Clinical Trials in Neurotherapeutics. Chaired by Wilson Bryan of the FDA and Bernard Ravina of University of Rochester, this day-long session included topics such as trial design, stages of therapeutics development, clinical trial statistics, and ethics of clinical trials.
FightSMA sponsored Dr. Jean Teasley’s attendance of the Fundamentals of Clinical Trials in Neurotherapeutics session. Dr. Teasley is a pediatric neurologist specializing in neuromuscular diseases and operative monitoring for neurosurgical procedures. She serves as Associate Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology, Division of Pediatric Neurology and practices at Children’s Hospital in Richmond, Virginia where she treats spinal muscular atrophy patients.
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