Wednesday, March 22, 2023

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The Multiple Sclerosis Workforce of the Future: What will it be?

Gary Cutter, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics

University of Alabama Birmingham School of Public Health



Dr. Cutter is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics at the UAB School of Public Health in the Department of Biostatistics with a major interest in design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trials, epidemiologic studies, and evaluation research. He has directed numerous multicenter and multinational clinical trial coordinating centers in many disease areas. He currently serves on the Protocol Review Committee for the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at NHLBI. He was Associate Director, National Center for High Impact Clinical Trials in Rehabilitation Medicine.  He is an investigator in the UAB Clinical Center for the NIH Common Fund Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) and Co-Chair of the MoTrPAC Data Quality, Data Analysis, and Data Review Committee as well as the Publications Committee. The director of the Preventing Epilepsy Using Vigabatrin in Infants with Tuberous Sclerosis (PREVeNT trial) among others.


He has been working in Multiple Sclerosis research since the mid 1990s. He was the director of the Coordinating Center for the CombiRx Trial and involved in two current PCORI MS trials – DISCOntinuation of disease-modifying therapies in Multiple Sclerosis (DISCOMS) and Step for MS.  He is a past President of the Consortium of MS Centers. He is a member and/or Chair of numerous data and safety monitoring committees for the NIH, Pharmaceutical Companies and foundations as well as various advisory committees. He served on the International Clinical Trials Committee of the National MS Society and International Federation of MS Societies for over a decade. He is on the editorial boards of the Multiple Sclerosis Journal, the journal Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, an Associate Editor of Alzheimer’s Disease Translational Research. He is a member of the Statistics Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). He is a mentor on numerous K awards, PhD and master’s students and teaches in various national and international short courses. 




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