Rituximab, MS, and pregnancy
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- Received December 26, 2019
- Accepted in final form March 24, 2020
- First Published May 1, 2020.
Author Disclosures
- Jessica B. Smith, MPH,
- Kerstin Hellwig, MD,
- Katharina Fink, MD, PhD,
- Deirdre J. Lyell, MD,
- Fredrik Piehl, MD, PhD and
- Annette Langer-Gould, MD, PhD
- Jessica B. Smith, MPH,
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- Kerstin Hellwig, MD,
(1) Novartis (2) Genzyme (3) Teva (4) Merck (5) Roche
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(1) Biogen, funding for travel (2) Novartis, funding for travel (3) Merck, funding for travel (4) Biogen Idec Germany, speaker honoraria (5) Teva, speaker honoraria (6) Sanofi Genzyme, speaker honoraria (7) Novartis, speaker honoraria (8) Bayer Healthcare, speaker honoraria (9) Merck Serono, speaker honoraria (10) Roche, speaker honoraria
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Honoraria from Biogen, Bayer Healthcare, Teva, Sanofi, Merck and Novartis
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Biogen, Bayer Healthcare, Teva, Merck, Roche, Sanofi-Genzyme and Novartis
(1) Fund of the Federal Joint Committee
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- Katharina Fink, MD, PhD,
Served on scientific advisory boards for Merck, Roche and Johnson & Johnson.
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Speaker honoraria from Merck and Biogen.
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(1) Neuro Sweden (2) Neuro Stockholm (3) MS Forskningsfonden
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- Deirdre J. Lyell, MD,
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Does UpToDate count? Unsure if that's under occasional writing. I write the UpToDate article on Interpregnancy Interval, updated about every year, unrelated entirely to this topic.
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Commercial entity: Bloomlife. I consult for them occasionally and have received stock options. Their work (creating a remote uterine contraction monitor) is entirely unrelated to this research article.
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NIH, as a co-investigator, unrelated to this work.
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My husband was on the board of Cray Computers, unrelated to this work. Stock/Stock Options, Medical Equipment & Materials: Stock options for consulting, see #8 above. Bloomlife Technologies, options grated ∼2018, ongoing consulting, unrelated to this work.
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- Fredrik Piehl, MD, PhD and
data safety monitoring committee Parexel/Chugai, outside of this study
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Genzyme - unrestricted academic research projects outside of this study Merck KGaA - unrestricted academic research projects outside of this study
Swedish Medical Research Council (grant 2017-03054) PI, 2018- ongoing. Pcori, Washington DC (grant MS-1511-33196) PI, 2017- ongoing
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- Annette Langer-Gould, MD, PhD
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My husband, Michael Gould, serves as the Deputy Editor for Annals of the American Thoracic Society for the past 2.5 years
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I am a voting panel member of California Technology Assessment Forum, a core program of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) and have served as expert evaluator for ICER's evaluation of MS DMTs. ICER has paid for my travel for the round table meetings.
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My husband currently receives grant support from the NIH, PCORI and NCI
I received grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH NINDS RO1) and currently an award from PCORI
I received grant and contract support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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- From the Department of Research & Evaluation (J.B.S.), Kaiser Permanente Southern California; Department of Neurology (K.H.), St. Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany; Department of Clinical Neuroscience (K.F., F.P.), Karolinska Institute; Center for Neurology (K.F.), Academic Specialist Center, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology – Maternal Fetal Medicine (D.J.L.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Department of Neurology (F.P.), Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; and Department of Neurology (A.L.-G.), Los Angeles Medical Center, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles, CA.
- Correspondence
Dr. Langer-Gould Annette.M.Langer-Gould{at}kp.org
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