OIFE believes that all clinical trials and research projects affecting OI directly, should have some kind of patient involvement. Patient involvement can happen in different ways and in different phases of a project. Sometimes advice from a new and unexperienced parent or a child is needed. Other times a person with OI, who can represent…
Interview with Rebecca Tvedt Skarberg, member of European Patient Advocacy Group (ePAG) The European Reference Networks (ERNs) are 24 virtual networks involving healthcare providers across Europe. They aim to facilitate discussion on rare diseases that require highly specialised treatment. One of these networks is the European Reference Network for Rare Bone Diseases (ERN-BOND). ERN-BOND has…
Are you interested in research & policy work? As a European umbrella organization, we are more and more often asked to recruit patient representatives for research projects related to OI. This includes both clinical research and basic research. OIFE therefore needs to recruit and educate more people who can represent the voices of people with…
OIFE is looking for someone who could represent us at the Brussels Rare Disease Week 2021. Would you like to apply for the position as our representative? When? Brussels Rare Disease Week (RDW) will take place during the week of 22 February 2021 in Brussels, organized in the lead-up to Rare Disease Day 2021 (28 February). What?…
For a number of years treatment of OI was mostly limited to bisphosphonates, surgical interventions and physiotherapy. Well basically it still is, if you think of approved and standardized treatment (if such a thing exists in OI). The group of drugs called bisphosphonates actually celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. And for the last 25-30…
OIFE is a member of the rare disease umbrella organization EURORDIS. At least four of OIFE’s patient representatives have graduated from EURORDIS Summer School, but we are always interested in recruiting more patient experts. Through the Open Academy capacity-building programmes, EURORDIS empowers patient advocates to have the confidence and knowledge needed to bring their expertise…
