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Looking forward to the Allied Professionals Forum

Reading Time: 2 minutes MND Association trustee, Julie Draper, will be arriving in Milan on Wednesday evening in preparation for the Allied Professionals Forum (APF), taking place on Thursday 5 December. This one day meeting organised by the International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations focuses on the practice and experiences of healthcare professionals involved in the care and support of people living with…

The symposium programme committee

Reading Time: 3 minutes The 24th International Symposium on ALS/MND is now only one month away and we are now beginning to make the final preparations for the meeting. All 497 abstracts were published online yesterday and are available by means of open access via our website. These abstracts have had a long journey from when they were originally submitted back…

Demystifying the symposium

Reading Time: 5 minutes The International Symposium on ALS/MND is the largest MND-specific conference in the world, which is expected to attract over 900 delegates this year. The planning of the Symposium is a year long event and is pretty much like organising a film premiere, with a number of different teams involved. The ‘symposium team’ ranges from the Conference…

The International Symposium on ALS/MND

Reading Time: 3 minutes Every year in December the MND Association organizes the largest medical and scientific conference specific to MND in the world. The International Symposium on ALS/MND attracts over 800 researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals, representing the energy and dynamism of the global MND research community. The symposium in Chicago last year had a record attendance of over 900 delegates with…