One platform for the rare diseases that fall between specialties.
Novel Insights in Rare Diseases is a hub for healthcare-professional education in rare and immune-mediated disease. It is organized into specialty sections, each running its own education, engagement and industry-collaboration programs.
- Legal entity
- Novel Insights in Rare Diseases, LLC
- Sections
- 6
Why the gap exists
Rare diseases are often under-recognized precisely because they sit between disciplines. NIRDs closes that gap the same way in every section: convene the clinicians who see these patients, ground the discussion in real data, and keep the field current as new therapies arrive.
How the work is delivered
Three delivery modes
- EngageAdvisory boards and consensus panels
- Expert roundtables and focus groups that generate publishable insight and real-world data.
- EducateWebinars and national conferences
- Recurring CME webinar series and flagship annual conferences within each specialty.
- ReachAccredited CME on the big stages
- Dedicated podium time and satellite symposia at the field's largest, most established meetings.
Leadership
Founder and Course Director
Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH
Dr Qureshi chairs the Department of Dermatology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and serves as Dermatologist-in-Chief at Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. He is President of Brown Dermatology Inc. and Professor of Epidemiology. He founded NIRDs and directs its scientific program.
How the work is funded
NIRDs is a for-profit medical education company funded by industry support. Attendance is free to clinicians because partners fund the programs, and the firewall between that funding and the science is held by the scientific planning committee.
The accredited scientific program is determined solely by NIRDs and its scientific planning committee, and a place on it is never granted in exchange for sponsorship. Industry-organized sessions sit outside that program, are labeled wherever they appear, and are not accredited education.
- Registered
- Novel Insights in Rare Diseases, LLC, nirds.org