.Sarah Wahlster & I are grateful to authors from 11 countries doing the incredible work presented in this issue of Seminars in Neurology: Neurology in Underserved and Marginalized Populations thieme-connect.com/products/ejour… Altaf Saadi MD MSc Adys Mendizabal, MD,MS

Nice to see prof. Angela Vincent recognized for her work using her own refreshing quotations and sense of the world. thelancet.com/journals/laneu…

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James Elder, UNICEF spokesperson, 22 March:

> “The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it… As soon as you drive through the north, you get that universal gesture of hunger of people putting their hands to their mouths. A lot of children, women with very gaunt

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Andrew Ham, clinical research coordinator MGH Neurology, recently published on the feasibility and tolerability of portable brain MRI in 50 people with #MS . Low field=high potential for new locations where MRI is difficult to access. msard-journal.com/article/S2211-…

New Episode!

Hear Farrah Mateen's insights on the challenges of providing rare disease care in low-resource settings & goals for improving access to diagnostics, education & continuity of care worldwide.

#nmosd #NeuroTwitter The Sumaira Foundation Genentech

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Early-career Malian scientists: Submit a concept paper for the Donald Krogstad Award by March 14. $25,000 available for up to two years of research support in tropical medicine and/or public health. tinyurl.com/48k2e6p2

The manuscript on #NMOSD & Employment in the USA is now published. Thanks to all of our participants!
First author is #Harvard engineering student Isabella Gomez Hjerthen.
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The Sumaira Foundation Amgen 🧪🔬🧬 Demystifying NMO/MOG Podcast NeurologyLive® World Federation of Neurology (WFN) MGH Neurology

Hi all! We have a position open for a clinician scientist to join us in the neuroradiology section Stanford Radiology. Come invent the future of neuroradiology with us! All levels eligible. Please RT and send to friends! Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/4946… stanfordneuroimaging #aslrocks

Such an important position with tremendous impact 🧠👇

In Dec., Merck shared topline results on BTKi Evobrutinib. (I was a site PI.) Surprising to see a major phase III trial with neg. results in RMS in 2023, esp. since so many large co.s are on the same path. Useful data for many future patients & MS trials.
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Congrats Shawheen J Rezaei at #Stanford for publishing this protocol in Epilepsia Open
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E=mc2 is 'education, medicine, & conditional cash' for epilepsy

Question is which works better: cond. $ or free meds in Guinea, a very privatized, poor health system

Still smoke and burning on Day 4 post explosion. The consequences: very poor air quality, limited electricity/hot water, difficult to get a taxi, people not getting into work or the hospital, and 5x prices on fuel with long queues at fuel stations.

Still burning in Kaloum nearly 23 hours later

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Today it is mostly smoke, taken outside Ignace Deen Hospital in Conakry. 🌍

There was an explosion in Conakry early this AM. This video is from my hotel. Apparently it was a fuel tanker … heard a few sirens much later… don’t think the hospital has a proper burn unit. ☹️ theatlasnews.co/breakingnews/2… 🇬🇳

Neurology Podcast: Dr. Farrah Mateen and Sumaira Ahmed discuss The Sumaira Foundation and their global ambassador program for patient advocacy. Listen now: bit.ly/47QsRgR
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We are always so pleased to offer the Peter Salama refugee MPH scholarship. Peter was an inspiration to so many of us in humanitarian health. He was also a dear friend. Please share widely.

Saw this at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Museum Gift Shop in Hanoi.