Silver Spring, MD. TREND Community's Maria Picone and Blair Van Brunt and The Chion Foundation's Lara Pullen were invited to meet the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to present TREND Community's novel approach to systematically collect patient real-world experience data. 

Representatives from the offices of: CDER, Patient Affairs, Patient Liaison Program, Professional Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement Staff, Metabolism and Endocrinology Dept, Office of Orphan Products Development and Office of Rare Diseases were in attendance.

The team presented data from the following TREND Community Health Initiatives:
The Pitolisant Initiative & The FA Patient Voice Initiative.

Rochester, NY. TREND Community's CEO, Maria Picone, presented at the University of Rochester Technology & Rare Neurological Diseases Symposium on Using analytics technology and targeted health initiatives to incorporate an amplified patient voice into all aspects of the drug development process and drive community-powered science.

Checkout the TRNDS Speaker Spotlight on Maria: http://trnds.org/trnds-interviews-maria-picone/​