ISPOR Patient Representative Travel Grant

The candidate for the Patient Travel Grant must:

• Represent a nonprofit, voluntary health agency [501(c)3 in the US] with a mission to:
  • Combat a particular disease, disability, or group of diseases/disabilities or
  • Improve and protect the health of a particular group of people
• Engage in programs, such as, research, education, advocacy, and service to individuals and communities
• NOT be employed by health technology producers (biopharmaceutical, medical device, or diagnostic companies)
• NOT have received an ISPOR Conference Grant during the past 3 years

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The application for the Travel Grant for ISPOR 2024 will open in January 2024.

The recipient of the ISPOR Travel Grant receives complimentary registration to the conference and a fixed-amount travel reimbursement, per the ISPOR Travel Reimbursement Policy. 

• Omar A. Escontrias, National Health Council, United States
  
• Birgitta Termander, Rare Diseases Sweden, Sweden
  
• Stavros Terzakis, Union of Heart Patients of Navy Officers, Coast Guard and Friends, Hellenic Navy, Greece
  
• Ana-Ecaterina Amariutei, European Patient Advocacy Institute, Germany 
  
• Richard Ballerand, European Institute for Innovation and Technology, United Kingdom
  
• Jennifer Camaradou, Health ClusterNET, Netherlands 
• Marjorie Morrison, Lymphoma Coalition, Canada 

• Lisa Machado, Canadian CML Network, Canada
  
• Sneha Dave, Generation Patient, United States
  
• Jason Harris, National Psoriasis Foundation, United States
  
• Ashley Valentine, Sick Cells, United States
  
• Kevin Wake, Uriel E. Owens Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Midwest, United States
  
• Anna Hyde, Arthritis Foundation, United States

• Valentina Strammiello, European Patients Forum, Belgium
  
• Stefan Živković, National Organisation for Rare Diseases of Serbia, Serbia
  
• Ananda Plate, Myeloma Patients Europe, Germany
  
• Tina Mesarič, University of Maribor, Slovenia
  
• Merce Cases, European Patient Advocacy Institute, Germany
  
• Sara Pérez Martínez, Freelance Patient Advocate, Spain
  
• Laura Gumbert, SMA Europe, Bayreuth, Germany
  
• Sara Loud, Accelerated Cure Project, Inc., United States
  
• Veronica del Gragnano Stasiak Bednarczuk de Oliveira, Unidos pela Vida-Brazilian Institute of Cystic Fibrosis Care, Brazil
  
• Anne-Pierre Pickaert, Care 4 Access, France
  
• Angie Botto-van Bemden, Musculoskeletal Research International Patient Advocate, United States
  
• Karla Ruiz de Castilla, Esperantra, Peru

• Sita Ratna Devi Duddi, Patient Academy for Innovation and Research, India
• Ellos Lodzeni, International Alliance of Patients'​ Organizations (IAPO), Malawi
• Charlotte Martin, Leukemia Care, United Kingdom
• Derick Mitchell, The Irish Platform for Patient Organisations, Science and Industry (IPPOSI), Ireland
• Silene ten Seldam, Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE), Belgium

• Paul Melmeyer, National Organization for Rare Disorders, USA
  
• Tonya Moore, WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, USA
  
• Jane Perlmutter, Gemini Group, USA
  
• Marc Yale, International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, USA
  
• Allison Moore, Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation, USA