American Neuromuscular Foundation

The anf created the late onset neuromuscular disease consortium in 2022. The anf convened nearly 25 stakeholders including patient advocacy organizations, industry, and clinicians to begin to identify common challenges and potential workstreams for future cross-stakeholder collaboration. The londc is focused on projects to drive awareness, improve education, and address gaps in care. The stakeholders and key opinion leaders met in 2024 to continue the work of the londc.

Awards: the american neuromuscular foundation supports its education and research goals by funding several awards each year. Each award gives physicians/investigators the opportunity to be recognized among their peers for their work in research. The awards given include the golseth young investigator award which is presented to encourage young physicians to conduct research in edx medicine; the best abstract award is presented to the writer and runner-up of the abstract judged by the aanem abstract review committee as the best based on scientific merit, well written, excellent discussion, importance to the field,and/or fascinating case; the president's research initiative award is based on abstracts pertaining to an area of interest of the president; the resident/fellow member recognition award is given to aanem physician-in-training members who are the first and presenting author on an approved abstract to encourage young physicians to conduct research in the fields of neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic medicine; the olney lectureship award is given to the person chosen to present the titled plenary session at the aanem annual meeting; the technologist recognition award is given to aanem technologist members to encourage them to take a leading role in conducting research in neuromuscular and edx medicine. The lambert award for presentation was also given. The medical student award is also given.