In late February, MAPS Clinical Operations Manager Amy Emerson, Deputy Director Valerie Mojeiko, and MAPS new clinical research specialist Berra Yazar Ph.D., conducted a monitoring visit in Switzerland. They worked with Peter Oehen M.D. on the Swiss MDMA/PTSD study, which has completed treating all 12 patients, to help prepare the data for reporting to Swiss Medic and the FDA, and also for writing an article for submission to a scientific journal.
This same team also paid a monitoring visit to Peter Gasser M.D.s MAPS-sponsored Swiss LSD/end-of-life study. The monitoring visit revealed that its more difficult than we had originally anticipated to work with people who are close to dying, because their underlying disease process affects their health and their anxiety, as well as their ability to come to the psychotherapy sessions on a schedule.
Swiss LSD researcher Peter Gasser had a teleconference with Rick Doblin, Ph.D., MAPS Research and Information Specialist Ilsa Jerome, Ph.D., and MAPS Clinical Research Associate Berra Yazar, Ph.D. They discussed ways to align the windows during which certain procedures should be taking place with the diminished abilities to keep to a schedule of the actual patient population that they are working with.
