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Foreword

As new therapies that carry the hope of improving the future of MS patients are starting to appear, the importance of an exact diagnosis and precise methods of following the progress of the disease become paramount. Dr Sigrid Poser reviews how the diagnosis is arrived at, and when to reconsider it. Dr Donald Paty concentrates on the difficulties involved in monitoring the disease clinically, and the quantum leap in the understanding of pathophysiology that has followed the introduction of MRI.

Joël Oger MD, FRCP(C), Associate Professor of Neurology, University of British Columbia/MS Clinic

Guest Editors

Sigrid Poser, MD was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1941. She studied for her medical degree in Tübingen, Erlangen, Hamburg, Vienna and Göttingen, graduating from the Georg-August University, Göttingen in 1967. During the subsequent two years, she held medical internships at a variety of German hospitals and undertook a rotating internship in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA. In 1970, she returned to the Neurologic and Psychiatric Clinic of the University Hospital at Georg-August University in Göttingen as the Resident for Specialisation in Neurology and Psychiatry, and in 1975 gained the Certification in Neurology (Habilitation). Since 1976 she has been the Senior Physician in this clinic, and is currently the Head of the Neurology Outpatients Department. She was nominated to the position of Professor in the Faculty of Medicine for Neurology in 1980. Professor Poser's research activities are focused on the clinical diagnosis and documentation of neurological diseases, in particular Multiple Sclerosis. She is involved in the study of long term care and medical consultation of Multiple Sclerosis patients, and the epidemiology of the disease.

Donald Winston Paty, MD, FRCP(C) was born in Peking, China in 1936 and received both his BA and MD from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. After volunteering to serve in the Peace Corp in Malaysia for two years, he completed his clinical residency in neurology and his research training in neuroimmunology in the US and England. Although he retains his US citizenship, Dr Paty has lived and worked in Canada since 1972. Beginning his professional career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario in 1972, he advanced rapidly to the position of Professor. Since 1980 he has been Professor and Head of Neurology and Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Programs at the University of British Columbia. His major contributions include immune function studies in MS, creation of the MS Clinic network of Canada, use of computer databaz to generate natural history in MS and, probably most notably, the natural history of MS lesions as disclosed by MRI. Dr Paty has authored over 350 publications, chapters and books. He is a member of many professional and learned societies, and is on the editorial boards and boards of directors of many national and international committees, journals and societies.

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First Edition 1995.

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