UB’s Black Multiple Sclerosis (M) Summit:

‘Keys to Living Your Best with MS’

UB will be hosting the first annual Black Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Summit: Keys to Living your Best with MS, in the Active Learning Center of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on Saturday, April 13th from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

This program has been organized by the Jacobs MS Center for Treatment and Research, Department of Neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and is targeted to Black individuals living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and related disorders. Research conducted by lead author, Dr. Bianca Weinstock-Guttman et al, and published back in 2010, highlighted the greater MS disease severity in African American people with MS (PwMS) based on MRI findings.

More recently, Dr. Guttman and team have implemented an MS Health Equity Program with funding by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, that has focused on overcoming barriers to early diagnosis and optimum disease management through physician and patient educational programs.

Other speakers will include: Penny Pennington, MAS; Fred D. Archer, III, MD; and Pastor George Nicholas.

Patients interested in attending the Black MS Summit are encouraged to register ASAP through the QR code Questions on the program including registration can be directed to Penny Pennington, MAS, at (716) 343-2810 or pennypen@buffalo.edu.

Event sponsors include Jacobs MS Center for Treatment and Research (JMSCTR), Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, and National MS Society.