Clinical Efficacy, Drug Safety, and Surrogate Endpoints
Has Aducanumab Met All of Its Expectations?
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- First Published July 7, 2021.
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- Linda A. Hershey, MD, PhD and
- Rawan Tarawneh, MD
- Linda A. Hershey, MD, PhD and
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I have served as an Associate Editor for Neurology since 2019. Editorial board of Neurology from 2011-2019. Editorial boards of JSM Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementia (2014-present) and J Neuroscience & Cognitive Studies (2017-present). I served as a peer-reviewer in 2019 for MKSAP-18 (American College of Physicians). In 2018, I received compensation for a special review for the Annals of Internal Medicine (American College of Physicians).
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Royalties for writing annual updates for MedLink Neurology about these 4 topics: a) Memory Loss (2015-present) b) Cognitive and behavioral changes in PSP (2015-present) c) Sleep and dementia (2017-present) d) Pre-MCI (2019-present) e) Vascular cognitive impairment (2020-present)
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a) I have served on the Network of Experts (about the design of Alzheimer studies) for the FDA since 2018. b) I served as a member of the Long Term Care Stakeholders Committee for the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality from 2017-20.
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I held an endowed chair at OU from 2010-2015: Ethelyn McElwee Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and was the Director of Dementia & Behavioral Neurology at OU Physicians.
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- Rawan Tarawneh, MD
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1. Editorial Board Member for Biomarker Insights (SAGE) Journal, 4/2021-current 2. Editorial Board Member Open Biomarkers Journal (Bentham) 2019-2020 3. Healio Peer Perspective Board for Neurology, 2021-current
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PI on NIH grant: R21AG067755-01A1 (Multiple PI: Tarawneh/Amer)
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- From the Department of Neurology (L.A.H.), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City; and Department of Neurology (R.T.), The Ohio State University, Columbus.
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Dr. Hershey linda-hershey{at}ouhsc.edu
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