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Pillar Series Featuring June Halper
June Halper, MSN, APN-C, FAAN, MSCN

June Halper is a Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner, who has specialized in multiple sclerosis since 1978. She was a Founder of the MS Center in Teaneck, New Jersey, and Executive Director there until 2008.

June Halper was President of the CMSC, from 1995 to '97, and she has been Executive Director since 1992. She's published extensively and lectures widely on multiple sclerosis. Her numerous publications are well known in the field of multiple sclerosis. She chaired the first MS Nurse Specialist Consensus Committee, developing a monograph on the nurses' role. She's been instrumental in the Foundation of the International Organization of MS Nurses. She's a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, continues to serve as Founding Director, Executive Director of IOMSN.

Posted: April 8, 2011

Pregnancy and MS
Elsie Gulick, PhD, FAAN, RN

Dr. Gulick is a Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her experience in the area of multiple sclerosis includes a public health nurse caring for patients with MS and conducting research with persons with MS and their families. Her areas of research include instrument development, coping, social support, quality of life, and effects of infant feeding method on the health of mothers with MS and their infants. 

Posted: December 17, 2009

Pillar Series featuring Dr. John F. Kurtzke
John F. Kurtzke, MD, FACP, FAAN

Dr. Kurtzke has had a long and distinguished career in the field of neurology and neuroepidemiology, as Chief of the Neurology Service at the Veteran's Affairs (VA) Medical Centers in Coatesville, PA, from 1956 to 1963, and Washington, DC, from 1963 to 1995 where he still serves as a consultant. A Navy veteran of World War II, he attained the rank of Rear Admiral in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve. he became Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he had been a faculty member since 1963 and is currently Professor Emeritus. Since 1992, he has also served as Distinguished Professor of Neurology at the F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD.

Posted: November 17, 2009

Pillar Series featuring Dr. Donald Silberberg
Donald Silberberg, MD

Dr. Silverberg received his MD from the University of Michigan School of Medicine and has trained extensively, including the University of Michigan School of Medicine, but also trained in Neurology at the National Institutes of Health. He's been a Fulbright Scholar. He studied in Queen Square, and is a fellow of neuro-ophthalmology at the Barnes Hospital. Dr. Silverberg's research has focused on the medical causes of neonatal injury and on multiple sclerosis and related disorders of the nervous system. A parallel focus has been on behalf of clinical neurosciences, with attention to child health and development in the developing world.

Posted: June 23, 2009

Pillar Series featuring Dr. Arthur Asbury
Arthur K. Asbury, MD, FRCP

At the CMSC, we often speak of pillars, of the foundation and the things that hold us up and keep us going. So, this is the first opportunity to listen to one of our pillars in the field of Multiple Sclerosis, Dr. Arthur Asbury. He is the Van Meter Professor of Neurology Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is well known to neurologists around the world as a living treasure in neurology.

Posted: June 22, 2009

How to Manage an MS Center and Make it Work?
Frederick E. Munschauer III, MD

If you enjoyed hearing Dr. Rick Munschauer lecture at the annual meeting 2008, this podcast is an opportunity to revisit the concepts and evolution of his system for making an MS center profitable. Practical and timely suggestions abound in this interesting and engaging session. And, for audio and powerpoint slides from the original workshop given with Anne Dunne, please click here.

Posted: December 8, 2008

Top 10 Things to look for in an MRI
Anthony Traboulsee, MD

Experience the excellent lecture of Dr. Traboulsee through this podcast as he shares his expertise in the fields of MRI, image analysis, functional MRI, MR spectroscopy and magnetic transfer. Be informed of the step-wised approach in dealing with MS by going over his audio and web slides presentations during the 2008 Annual Meeting. Click here for the complete preview.

Posted: October 22, 2008

Current Perspective in MS Care
Brian Hutchinson, PT, MSCS; Randall T. Schapiro, MD; Bruce A. Cohen, MD; Amy Perrin Ross, APRN, MSN, CNRN, MSCN

This teleconference aims to facilitate discussion on the contemporary vision of MS, to raise awareness about the advantages of a comprehensive approach to management and to provide an overview of the Science of MS and the role of therapy.

Posted: February 28, 2006

Spasticity Management
June Halper, MSN, ANP, FAAN; Jodie Haselkorn, MD

This teleconference discusses the context of the spasticity management guidelines which first formed in the extended care environment and the need to identify the potential triggers of spasticity.

Posted: December 13, 2005

Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis in 2005: Standards for CSF Analysis
June Halper, MSN, ANP, FAAN; Mark Freedman, MD

This talk is about the specific criterias for identifying Multiple Sclerosis using the concepts of MRI and making early diagnosis with standards of accuracy.

Posted: June 29, 2005

Active Disease Management in MS
June Halper, MSN, ANP, FAAN; Kenneth Johnson, MD

The Multiple Sclerosis treatment options and public information continue to change hence this teleconference presents an opportunity to reassess the field of MS treatments.

Posted: May 26, 2005