Pat Furlong

CEO

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy

Position in Extended Committee - Patient Organisation Representative

Pat Furlong is the Founding President and CEO of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) which she founded together with other parents of young men with Duchenne in 1994.  

Along with leading PPMD, Pat speaks about Duchenne and related topics at conferences each year worldwide and is an active Board member with the Genetic Alliance and the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. She is also a committee member on the Collaboration in Education and Test Translation Program; and serves on the data safety monitoring board for both the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network and Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group and TREAT-NMD STAC.

Website www.uppmd.org