| 03 March 2010
Hey Folks
We just heard from the Massachusetts General Hospital that this years BMD Conference will be held on Saturday Aug 14 at the same facility as last year (Boston). There will be more details to follow as specifics are nailed down and shared with us.
Dr. Brian Tseng and his staff did a great job working with MDA on the conference last year. They are looking to have an even bigger event and are asking for your ideas and feedback on how to change the conference for this year. Please don't be shy providing your ideas.
A few ideas have been submitted so far:
- Add a segment to the presentation schedule that would include a patient panel, perhaps including some representative patients with differing challenges. This would be an opportunity for doctors that attend to interact with a larger group of patients to help them better understand how to approach treatment or research.
- Have an afternoon segment organized like a 'job fair' where doctors with clinical studies seeking BMD patients could attend and 'promote' their own studies. This would give the doctors access to a large group of BMD patients and patients would be able to get information on several studies conveniently in one place at one time.
If you have ideas of your own on how to make the conference better, please provide your feedback in the Hot Topics area of the forum here at BeckerMD.org
This is your chance to help form the conference to be more beneficial to the BMD community, so please give your $.02.
Thanks, Kevin


