The HD View with Lorna Speid PhD

Tonight we welcome back to the show, Dr. Lorna Speid who works in the pharmaceutical industry as a regulatory affairs and drug development consultant. We will be talking about the role of the PI (Principal Investigator) in clinical trials.

After working in the pharmaceutical industry for many years, Dr. Speid saw a need to provide information to patients about clinical trials that would allow them to be empowered enough to ask the right questions before and after entering clinical trials. She wrote the book Clinical Trials: What Patients and Healthy Volunteers Need to Know, to accomplish this.  It was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. 

Oxford University, the publisher of the book has agreed to provide Help 4 HD with a donation every time anyone using the Code HELP4HD154 in purchasing a copy of the book. The link for purchasing the book is http://global.oup.com/academic/promo/32990/?cc=gb&lang=en PROMO CODE: 32990. This is a book that will provide information on the development of new treatments. Education about this process is critical for anyone that is interacting with the process, whether as care giver or as patient.

She is the founder of a non-profit called Rare Diseases Patients First!  This organization is planning to provide education to patients with rare diseases about the clinical trial process. This education will be provided free of charge.  We will provide more information about these educational internet-based meetings, as soon as they are ready to be rolled out later this year. Dr. Speid advises companies on the development of new treatments for rare diseases.