Volume 5, Issue 4

Overcoming Barriers to MS Care

In this issue:

Too many individuals with MS are not receiving access to the most effective care. Why? What’s behind these disparities? And what can individual clinicians do to help remove the barriers that prevent equitable care for all patients?Join us, as Dr. Dorlan Kimbrough, from the division of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis, and Neuroimmunology at the Duke University School of Medicine, discusses these topics, in this issue of eMultipleSclerosis Review. 

 

Learning objectives:

  • Explain how a telemedicine session can enhance access to care for individuals unwilling or unable to travel to health care facilities.

  • Describe how shared decision-making impacts the patient-physician relationship and adherence to treatment.

Author:

Dorlan J. Kimbrough, MD
Dorlan J. Kimbrough, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis & Neuroimmunology

Duke University School of Medicine 

Durham, NC 

Program Directors:

Pavan Bhargava, MBBS, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Lisa Fox, PA-C, MPAS

Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Michael Kornberg, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Length of activity:

0.5 hour Physicians
0.5 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: July 19, 2023
Expiration date: July 18, 2025