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          Public meeting: FDA Rare Disease Day 2024 - 03/01/2024FDA Meetings, Conferences and Workshops Virtual
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              Public meeting: FDA Rare Disease Day 2024


                  March 1, 2024

  

    
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March 1, 2024   

 
 
        
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9:00 AM
    - 4:30 PM
ET
                
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          Office of Orphan Products Development

 




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Summary

FDA will host Rare Disease Day, a virtual public meeting, on March 1, 2024 in global observance of Rare Disease Week. This year’s Rare Disease Day is dedicated to patients and health care professionals. Panels will discuss:

The legal framework for approving studies and medical products at FDA
	What FDA does during review processes to approve medical products
	Decentralized clinical trials and digital health technologies
	Where to find important information and documents related to clinical trials
	Information that can be obtained from medical product labels
	Legal and ethical requirements for consent forms in clinical trials
	FDA initiatives to advance medical product development for rare diseases
	Ways for patients to engage with FDAContinuing education credit

Free continuing education (CE) credit is available for physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, nurses, and certified public health professionals who attend FDA’s Rare Disease Day. This event is approved for 4.25 CE credit hours. See the Activity Outline for more information.

Public docket

Stakeholders are invited to provide their perspectives on the discussion questions through the public docket. All comments must be identified with the docket number FDA-2023-N-5211 through April 5, 2024.

Contact

Participants may submit questions in advance to OOPDOrphanEvents@fda.hhs.gov.

Office of Clinical Policy and Programs, Office of Orphan Products Development | 301-796-7634





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