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Course: Matching Patients With the Right Treatment: A Patients Speak Activity

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Program Description
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This dynamic, interactive CME symposium at SLEEP 2024 will guide you through the journeys of real people with narcolepsy. You will be challenged to select the right treatments for evidence-based and personalized management based on medication mechanisms, efficacy, safety, and dosing features and patient characteristics and goals. Internationally recognized sleep-medicine experts Anne Marie Morse, DO, FAASM, Yves Dauvilliers, MD, PhD, and Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD, and the patients themselves will offer their perspectives on matching specific patients with the right treatment.
Agenda
6:30 – 7:00 pm
Registration/Dinner
7:00 – 7:05 pm
Welcome, Faculty Introductions, and Pre-test
7:05 – 7:15 pm
Pharmacologic Profiles of Narcolepsy Medications
7:15 – 7:25 pm
Patient Faculty: Personal Journeys and Experiences With Narcolepsy
7:25 – 8:05 pm
Panel Discussion: Matching Patients With the Right Treatment
8:05 – 8:20 pm
Personalizing Management By Focusing on Patients’ Needs, Goals, and Preferences
8:20 – 8:30 pm
Key Takeaways, Q&A, and Post-test
Intended Audience
Sleep medicine specialists, psychiatrists, neurologists, pulmonologists, and allied advanced practice clinicians (NPs, PAs) who diagnose and treat narcolepsy.
Commercial Supporters
Supported by educational grants from Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Harmony Biosciences, LLC.


Learning Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, clinicians should be better able to:
Outline the different pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic profiles, time to onset of action, and timing of dosing of the various agents used to manage narcolepsy in order to personalize and optimize management.
Adopt a comprehensive and personalized approach to managing narcolepsy that considers disease-related burdens, patient symptoms and characteristics, and medication side effects and drug–drug interactions.
Utilize shared decision-making when managing narcolepsy to empower patients and address their treatment goals, preferences, and expectations.


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