We discuss the online study Fox Insight and how contributing data through surveys and genetic testing helps direct drug development and approvals. The future of Parkinson's research is in powerful hands: yours.
This is an archived file of an event that took place on November 16, 2017.
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MJFF offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit for practicing health care professionals for each Third Thursday Webinar. Click the link in the Resource List after viewing the webinar to take the post-test survey and receive your CME credit.
Date of Original Release: November 16, 2017
Date CME Credit No Longer Available: November 16, 2019Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe how filling out questionnaires can help researchers understand Parkinson's disease and direct research.
- Discuss what researchers can learn from genetic data and questionnaire responses.
- Recognize how The Michael J. Fox Foundation's online clinical study Fox Insight and Fox Insight Genetics work.
Target Audience
This educational activity is designed for primary care physicians, family practice physicians, general medicine physicians, geriatricians, general neurologists, movement disorder specialists and any other health care practitioners who manage patients with Parkinson's disease.
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Oakstone Publishing, LLC and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. The Oakstone Publishing, LLC is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Oakstone Publishing, LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure
Oakstone Publishing, LLC has assessed conflict of interest with its faculty, authors, editors and any individuals who were in a position to control the content of this CME activity. Any identified relevant conflicts of interest were resolved for fair balance and scientific objectivity of studies utilized in this activity. Oakstone Publishing, LLC's planners, content reviewers, and editorial staff disclose no relevant commercial interests.
Faculty
Dave Iverson
Moderator
Nothing to discloseKevin Kwok
Person with Parkinson's
Employment: Theravance BiopharmaRoseanne Dobkin, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University
Nothing to discloseCatherine Kopil, PhD
Director, Research Partnerships
The Michael J. Fox Foundation
Nothing to disclose