AAN Conference Interview - Personalised medicine in MS

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Hi everyone,

As part of our coverage of the current American Academy of Neurology conference happening in Vancouver, we are conducting interviews with researchers that are in attendance. Today, we have published our interview with Dr Tomas Kalincik. Dr Kalincik is a researcher from the Melbourne Brain Centre at Royal Melbourne Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) and is part of the MSBase team. MSBase is a large global collaboration that involves neurologists, researchers and clinicians from countries all over the world to record clinical data. This data is then used for research projects to provide answers to many important questions in multiple sclerosis.

In this interview with Dr Kalincik, we talk about two studies that he has recently completed using MSBase. These studies are based around helping understand what the best treatment choices are for people with MS on an individual basis. It is hoped that this will lead to neurologists being able to provide a much more personalised approach in the way they treat MS. Dr Kalincik also answered a number of questions that had been submitted by people in the MStranslate community, including some submitted from the ThisIsMS forum. You can watch the interview here:



Unfortunately, as we weren't able to attend the conference, we have had to film these interviews online over Skype. Unfortunately, this occasionally leads to problems with sound quality, which some of you may notice in this video. We have tried to minimise these problems during editing, however, some parts can still be a little difficult to hear. If you do have problems with any of it, we have also provided a full written transcript of the interview on our website via this link:

http://www.mstranslate.com.au/aan-meeti ... -kalincik/

Thanks and stay tuned over the coming days for more videos and opportunities to submit your questions to researchers!