Mariane Hernandez

In recognition of SMA Awareness Month, NeurologyLive® spoke with neuromuscular experts about how multidisciplinary care is built, where coordination breaks down, and what changes as patients live longer.

In recognition of SMA Awareness Month, NeurologyLive® spoke with neuromuscular experts about how multidisciplinary care is built, where coordination breaks down, and what changes as patients live longer.

In recognition of SMA Awareness Month, held annually throughout August, NeurologyLive® reviews the investigational agents currently moving through clinical development for spinal muscular atrophy.

The phase 3 clinical program for salanersen, an investigational intrathecally administered antisense oligonucleotide, will test the efficacy of the agent across infants, adolescents and adults living with SMA.

Dustin Gable, MD, PhD, a pediatric neuromuscular neurologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discussed why bulbar dysfunction remains an underrecognized burden among patients with spinal muscular atrophy.

Nicholas Streicher, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of neurology at Georgetown University, discussed the training, handoff, and coding gaps that can leave adults with spinal muscular atrophy without follow-up care.

Alexandra Bonner, MD, a pediatric neuromuscular neurologist at Cleveland Clinic, discussed why real-time communication between specialists is the hardest part of multidisciplinary care for patients with spinal muscular atrophy.

Alexandra Bonner, MD, a pediatric neuromuscular neurologist at Cleveland Clinic, discussed which specialties are essential to a spinal muscular atrophy care team and why anticipating future needs has become central to the work.

W. Bryan Burnette, MD, chief of neurology at Nemours Children’s Health in Jacksonville, Florida, discussed why access to adult subspecialty care has become one of the largest remaining challenges in spinal muscular atrophy.

Senda Ajroud-Driss, MD, director of the ALS Clinic at Northwestern Medicine, discussed why adults with spinal muscular atrophy continue to need multidisciplinary care and where the evidence still falls short.

Divya Jayaraman, MD, PhD, a pediatric neuromuscular specialist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, discussed the comparative evidence gaps in spinal muscular atrophy and the difficulty of moving patients into adult care.

Sandeep Rana, MD, director of the ALS Center at the Allegheny Health Network Neuroscience Institute, discussed how multidisciplinary clinics are assembled and what still limits access to coordinated care in spinal muscular atrophy.

Divya Jayaraman, MD, PhD, a pediatric neuromuscular specialist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, discussed how multidisciplinary care teams in spinal muscular atrophy are adapting to a growing number of treatment options.

In recognition of SMA Awareness Month, held annually throughout August, NeurologyLive® summarized the latest literature on the multidisciplinary care approach for patients living with spinal muscular atrophy.