UBC Hospital’s MS team takes to the streets

UBC Hospital’s Multiple Sclerosis Clinic recently took to the streets. The team – also known as the MS Remyelinators – laced up their favourite runners to participate in this year’s MS Walk and raise funds to advance research and find a cure for the disease affecting 100,000 people in Canada. This was the clinic’s seventh opportunity to join in the community-based effort to end MS, and total funds raised reached $9,385.

Remyelination – the repair of damaged myelin – served as inspiration for the team’s name. Myelin repair occurs spontaneously in MS, but very slowly. Research is currently underway to find a way to speed the healing process.

The MS Clinic, located at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health on the UBC Hospital (UBCH) campus, is led by a world-renowned MS clinical research team. The clinic, which cares for 80 to 90 per cent of MS patients in B.C., has a global reputation for its emphasis on treatment, education and translational research. The clinic is also a national clinical trial centre for new pharmaceutical therapies and is home to the world’s largest MS database of more than 7,500 patients, many of whom have been followed for over 25 years.

The MS research and clinical care team is a tight-knit community with a shared ambition to help patients, provide better treatment options, and enhance patients’ overall quality of life. Our UBCH MS Remyelinators and the research and clinical team at the Centre for Brain Health continue to strive for the finish line and achieve the ultimate goal of finding an end to MS.