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Externally Led Patient-Focused Drug Development Meeting
AFTD is proud to announce the release of Frontotemporal Degeneration: A Voice of the Patient Report. This landmark report summarizes and analyzes data and perspectives from more than 1,750 people living with FTD, care partners, caregivers, and family members. Participants shared vital insight through our March 5, 2021 Externally Led Patient-Focused Drug Development Meeting, as well as an FTD Insights Survey conducted with the FTD Disorders Registry. Channeling the resolve of a community, we offer this report to provide the FDA with data and insights to evaluate future studies and treatments for FTD, including behavioral variant FTD, FTD-ALS, primary progressive aphasia, corticobasal syndrome or degeneration, and progressive supranuclear palsy.
Frontotemporal Degeneration: A Voice of the Patient Report
On October 27, 2021, reflecting input from more than 1,750 people, AFTD released our Voice of the Patient Report on FTD. We dedicate this report to all who have lost a loved one to FTD and to all who work to address this disease. We share your hope for a world with compassionate care, effective support, and a future free of FTD. Read a press release.
Watch the Meeting
EL-PFDD Meeting Agenda (Held on March 5th, 2021)
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Agenda |
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| 0:00:00 | Opening Remarks Susan L-J Dickinson, MSGC, CEO, The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) |
| 0:06:44 | FDA Welcome Remarks Michelle Campbell, PhD, Sr. Clinical Analyst for Stakeholder Engagement & Clinical Outcomes, Division of Neurology Products, FDA |
| 0:11:14 | Background on FTD Brad Dickerson, MD, Director, Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School |
| 0:26:21 | Introduction & Meeting Overview James Valentine, JD, MHS, Meeting Moderator |
| 0:33:41 | Demographic Polling |
| 0:51:05 | Topic 1 Panel 1: Health Effects and Daily Impacts |
| 1:18:38 | Moderated audience discussion and polling James Valentine, JD, MHS, Susan Dickinson, MSGC |
| 2:34:45 | Topic 2: Current & Future Approaches to Treatment James Valentine, JD, MHS |
| 2:36:15 | Panel 2A: Perspectives on Sporadic FTD |
| 3:06:26 | Panel 2B: Perspectives on Genetic FTD |
| 3:29:22 | Moderated audience discussion and polling James Valentine, JD, MHS, Susan L-J Dickinson, MSGC |
| 4:51:30 | Meeting Summary Larry Bauer, RN, MA, Hyman, Phelps, & McNamara, P.C. |
| 5:06:13 | Next Steps & Closing Remarks Susan L-J Dickinson, MSGC |
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- For more information on this report and other AFTD resources for research professionals, please contact research@theaftd.org
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