Register Today for the 2025 CMSC Annual Meeting in Phoenix!

FINAL OPPORTUNITY: CMSC 2025 EARLY BIRD SAVINGS

Time is running out to register for North America's leading multiple sclerosis conference at discounted rates:

• Early bird registration ENDS APRIL 30, 2025!

Don't miss this opportunity to join your fellow MS heroes from across all disciplines - neurology, immunology, nursing, rehabilitation, mental health, and more—as we unite to transform MS care together!

Suit up and register at www.mscare.org/2025!

The 2025 meeting will be dedicated to the memory and legacy of June Halper, our founder, CEO, friend, and guiding star. Throughout a remarkable 50-year career, June’s vision and sheer force of will brought together a team dedicated to making the lives of people living with MS better. The MS community and countless patients and their families are forever changed by her compassion, friendship, and vision.

CMSC 2025: Track and Learning Objectives

The CMSC's Continuing Education Committee has identified educational gaps in ten content areas and has invited noted faculty to develop and conduct educational sessions in each of the following learning tracks.

MS Management

• Examine the various models of care in MS and the roles and responsibilities of care team members to support the provision of team-based, comprehensive care via the most appropriate model for a given practice setting, which allows for the provision of evidence-based MS care.
• Summarize methods to monitor treatment outcomes, including patient self-report, automated self-assessment, clinician-reported outcomes, imaging, and biomarkers, to optimize their utilization in clinical practice and research.

Mental Health

• Conduct a thorough patient assessment that allows for differentiation between mental health, psychosocial, and cognitive issues in MS.
• Incorporate information obtained through appropriate assessments into therapeutic plans of care for each identified area of concern.
• Develop appropriate strategies for treatment and ongoing monitoring of changes affecting quality of life.
• Identify professional and community resources that support the work of the mental health team in providing comprehensive care to patients with MS.

Nursing

• Evaluate current nursing practice in various models of care utilized to implement individualized interventions and monitor outcomes in the care of patients with MS.
• Incorporate specific and evidence-based nursing skills into the development of team-based plans for individualized care of patients and families affected by MS.

Professionalism, Ethics, Advocacy

• Support MS patients and their families as they confront challenges wrought by the disease while protecting the individual’s right to privacy, information, and refusal of treatment.
• Promote and advance the roles of healthcare professionals dedicated to MS care to allow full and appropriate access to needed treatments, programs, and services.
• Represent people with MS to help secure their legal and human rights and empower people with MS to become self-advocates.
• Incorporate acquired information into professional practice skills that enhance comprehensive MS care and better serve patients, families, and colleagues.

Rehabilitation

• Integrate rehabilitative strategies into the multidisciplinary management of the comorbidities and sequelae of MS to optimize patients’ function and quality of life.
• Identify MS-specific screening techniques that facilitate individualized and targeted rehabilitation services.

Research

• Synthesize emerging data on treatment strategies and monitoring of safety and efficacy to promote continuing insights into disease pathology, course, and management.
• Review the design and outcomes of clinical trials in relapsing and progressive forms of MS and disseminate this information to prepare clinicians to evaluate trial quality and, where appropriate, integrate findings into clinical practice.

The Science of MS

• Review the current understanding of diagnostic criteria, phenotypes, and variants of MS to promote accurate diagnosis, appropriate therapy initiation, and outcomes monitoring.
• Identify the roles and interactions of genetics and epigenetics, the microbiome, environmental factors, age, comorbidities, and risk behaviors as factors contributing to pathogenesis and the course of MS.
• Pharmacologic and Symptomatic Management (PS)
• Identify assessment techniques to isolate those factors that affect the manifestation of the complex symptomatology of MS and differentiate between acute and chronic MS symptoms.
• Analyze common symptoms of MS and their appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions to develop strategies designed to maximize function and quality of life.

Technological Advances

• Examine innovations in diagnostic, rehabilitative, adaptive, communication, and educational technology that have an impact on the care of patients with MS throughout the spectrum of the disease.
• Incorporate technology appropriately to enhance care and research in MS.

Wellness

• Recognize the importance of focusing on wellness outcomes and incorporate this perspective into all of MS clinical care and patient and family education.
• Integrate wellness concepts into long-term planning as the patient's condition changes to optimize wellness strategies at all stages of disease.

More information about the meeting can be found by visiting the CMSC Annual Meeting website.