At the National Hemophilia Foundation’s (NHF) 62nd Annual Meeting in New Orleans, November 11-13, 2010, Craig Kessler, MD, Chair of NHF’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Council will preside over a one-day conference on clinical research. The “Consensus Conference on the Impediments to Conducting Clinical Research in Persons with Hemophilia, von Willebrand Disease and Other Rare Bleeding Disorders,” will take place on Thursday, November 11, 2010, from 8am to 5:30pm.
The conference will address the following issues:
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Scope of the Problem
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Patient Perspectives for Participation in Clinical Research
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The Usefulness and Limitations of Registries for Rare Bleeding Disorders
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FDA Expectations and Perspectives
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Funding Issues and Solutions