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MD, PhD FAAN, is a professor of neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a staff neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute’s Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis. He is the Director of Research at the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis. His research focuses on imaging outcome measures and imaging based clinical trials in multiple sclerosis.

Professor Hans-Peter Hartung is Professor of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany and Honorary Professor at Brain and Mind Center, Medical Faculty, University of Sydney, Australia. His scientific and clinical interests are translational neuroimmunology, in particular MS, NMOSD and immune neuropathies. He has been member of the steering committee of multiple clinical trials in these areas. He has co-authored more than 1100 articles and rote more than 100 book chapters. He was President of ECTRIMS.

MD, DM, PhD Professor of Neurology Director of Centre for Advanced Neurological Research, Nitte University, Karnataka, India

Dr Lekha Pandit is a professor of Neurology and Director of Centre for Advanced Neurological Research, at Nitte University, Mangalore, India.

She is the founder/director of the Mangalore demyelinating disease registry (MANNDIR), dedicated to diagnosis and management of multiple sclerosis & related disorders among resource constrained patients in Southern India.

Her research interests include the following - development of diagnostic live cell based assays, detection of novel biomarkers and the study of genetic, environmental and microbiome associations for MS and NMOSD in India.

Dr Pandit has been a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru fellowship for academic and professional excellence, is an awardee of the National Academy of Science, India and has authored over 225 publications in peer reviewed journals.

She is the current secretary of the Pan Asian committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (PACTRIMS).

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