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Dr. Matthijs Oyaert on diagnostic tests used in the context of MS, NMO-SD, and MOGAD

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BIOGRAPHY Matthijs Oyaert Matthijs Oyaert graduated as a master in drug development (pharmacy) in 2011 and master in clinical biology in 2016 at the KU Leuven and started working as a clinical biologist at the clinical laboratory of the Ghent University hospital. In the laboratory of clinical chemistry and hematology, he is responsible for a broad variety of (automated) routine clinical chemistry and immunochemistry tests and urinary test strip and particle analysis. In addition, he is involved in the laboratory diagnosis of auto-immune and neuroinflammatory diseases. During the...

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Prof. Romain Marignier on Differential Diagnosis

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BIOGRAPHY Romain Marignier Prof. Romain Marignier is a neurologist (MD), professor in the Neurological Hospital of Lyon, France. His field of expertise are the neuro-inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system with a specific interest on rare disorders, namely neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) and MOG-Ab associated diseases (MOGAD). Pr Marignier is the coordinator of the French nationwide NMO and MOGAD cohorts and biobanks, NOMADMUS, set up in 2010 that includes all the French clinical experts in neuro-inflammatory disorders. Through NOMADMUS, Pr Marignier...

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Switching MS medication

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BIOGRAPHY Melinda Magyari Melinda Magyari is the director of The Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry (link: www.dmsr.dk/) and a consultant neurologist at the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center (COI). Her major research area is in multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system with a special interest in the changing epidemiology and gender differences. Using nationwide population-based data sources her research addresses questions on comorbidities, reproductive issues, risk factors and socioeconomic consequences in multiple sclerosis. She is...

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Epstein Barr Virus and Multiple Sclerosis: Is the current ‘hype’ justified?

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BIOGRAPHY Niels Hellings Niels Hellings is Director of the Biomedical research Institute (BIOMED) and Professor Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences of Hasselt University (COI).He graduated as master in bioscience-engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven (1996) and consequently obtained a PhD in immunology at Hasselt University (2000). He was visiting postdoctoral scientist at McGill University (Montréal), before returning to Hasselt University to set up his own research group. Currently, Niels Hellings is director of the biomedical research institute...

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Immunology and MS, a key take away

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BIOGRAPHY Vincent van Pesch served as neurology resident at the Department of Neurology, Saint-Luc Hospital and then progressed in positions from Adjunct Clinical Head to Associate Clinical Head and finally to Adjunct Chief of Neurology Department at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (COI). He is also responsible for the coordination and supervision of the neurophysiology unit and is consultant for the clinical biology department concerning neuro-immunological analysis. Heobtained his medical degree in 1999 from the UCLouvain and then completed his PhD thesis in...

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Prognostication and MS

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BIOGRAPHY Bart Van Wijmeersch Bart Van Wijmeersch is a neurologist specialized in Multiple Sclerosis. He is medical director of the Rehabilitation and MS Center in Pelt where he leads the multidisciplinary MS-team. Furthermore, he is an associate professor of Neurology at the University of Hasselt, affiliated with the Biomedical Institute, where he’s involved in pre-clinical as well as the clinical research on MS at the biomedical institute (BIOMED). He has a supporting role in all the immunological research on blood- and CSF samples of persons with MS and in EAE-animal...

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