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|  | Dessa Sadovnick, Ph.D
Dr. Sadovnick was born in Montreal and obtained degrees from McGill University (B.Sc.,Honors Genetics; M.Sc., Human Genetics) and the University of British (Ph.D., Genetics. Dr. Sadovnick is a Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Neurology, UBC. She is a Michael Smith Distinguished Scholar.
Dr. Sadovnick is the Principal Investigator (with Dr. G.C. Ebers) of the nation-wide “Canadian Collaborative Project on Genetic Susceptibility to MS” and is a co-Principal Investigator on “Prospective study of the epidemiology, pathobiology, and clinical outcome of Canadian children with clinically isolated demyelinating syndromes (CIS)”. She is the co-director/academic advisor for the M.Sc.Genetic Counseling Program at UBC. She has published extensively (over 190 articles in peer-review journals) and serves as a reviewer for a wide variety of medical journals and grant review panels. She is often an invited speaker at Canadian and International (Europe, Asia, South America, Russia, Australia) scientific meetings.
Dr. Sadovnick is a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the MS Society of Canada and on several international advisory groups for MS. She is also a Board Member of the B.C. Division of the MS Society of Canada.
Dr. Sadovnick has just been awarded the MS Society of Canada Merit award.
| | Steven Schwid, MD
Dr. Schwid graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and completed his residency in neurology at the Universoty of Rochester. He trained in an NIH-sponsored fellowship in Neuroimmunology and the Experimental Therapeutics of Neurological Disorders at the University of Rochester, and then joined the faculty there. He is now Associate Professor of Neurology, as well as Co-Director of the Rochester Multiple Sclerosis Center, and Associate Chair for Clinical Research. IN addition to seeing MS patients, he supervises several multicenter clinical trials as Associate Director of the Clinical Trials Coordination Center, a division of the University of Rochester Department of Neurology. Dr. Schwid has an active research program in the development of quantitative measures of neurologic function for use in clinical trials, especially measures of motor function, cognition, and fatigue. He is the principal investigator of a grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to develop an international study group fostering the development and implementation of investigator-led multicenter clinical research studies. He is principal investigator or co-investigator for multicenter studies of disease modifying therapies for patients with clinically isolated demyelinating syndromes, relapsing, secondary progressive and primary progressive MS, and symptomatic therapies for motor impairment and cognition in patients with MS. Dr. Schwid is Associate Editor of Neurology. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several other journals and regularly reviews grants for the National Institutes of Health and National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is a member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Advisory Committee on Clinical Trials of New Drugs in MS, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Medical Advisory Board, and Sylvia Lawry Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research Clinical Research Working Group. | | | | Alison Scotese, MS, RN, FNP
Alison Scotese earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Villanova University, her Masters of Science at Columbia University, and is an ANCC Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Alison provides direct patient care as a Nurse Practitioner at the Multiple Sclerosis Care Center at the Hospital of Joint Diseases in New York. At the MS Center, she provides direct patient care, integrating medical and nursing aspects to provide a comprehensive plan of care. Her background and experience is in women's health and neurological disease at NY Presbyterian Cornell where she served as staff nurse in Labor and Delivery for several years. Alison is a member of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the International Organization of Multiple Sclerosis Nurses. | | | | Ben W. Thrower, M.D.
 Dr. Ben W. Thrower is the medical director of the MS Center at Shepherd Center in Atlanta. He previously served as the Medical Director of the Holy Family MS Center in Spokane, WA. In Spokane he was the Chair of the Inland Northwest Chapter of the NMSS. In 2000, he was awarded the Norm Cohn Hope Chest Award by the National MS Society, recognizing his work with the MS community. He is an assistant clinical professor of neurology at Emory University and participates actively in clinical research. Dr. Thrower serves on the board of directors for the Consortium of MS centers and the Georgia Chapter of the National MS Society. Combining his professional interests with his love of motorcycle he founded the non-profit organization HAMS, Hogs Against MS. His wife, Karen, is a pediatrician. They have three children, Stephanie, Nathan and Sam.
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