NARCOMS ENROLLMENT MILESTONE: 700 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PARTICIPANTS ENROLLED

**A press release shared with kind permission of our society partner, the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC)**

Patient Registry is a Collaborative Public-Private Partnership Under the Auspices of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC)

(Hackensack, NJ, March 2020) — The North American Registry for Care and Research in MS (NARCRMS) is pleased to announce enrollment of its 700th patient on Wednesday, February 26, 2020. NARCRMS anticipates enrolling up to 1,250 patients across 30 sites in the US and Canada. The registry is committed to recruiting patients of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, with over 150 Hispanic patients and approximately 75 patients that self-identify as Black or African American enrolled to date.

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The mission of NARCRMS is to provide clinicians and researchers with a greater, more integrated ability to track the incidence, prevalence and course of multiple sclerosis. Through information sharing, the registry seeks to improve the understanding of MS and facilitate care at every level. NARCRMS is unique as the first open source MS registry in the US and Canada that provides de-identified data to all stakeholders.

NARCRMS is a highly collaborative effort involving other MS registries, clinicians, researchers, and people living with MS and is endorsed by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.