FMDSA is honored to partner with The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, to meet the unmet needs of Canadian patients diagnosed with Fibromuscular Dysplasia
The Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America (FMDSA) is excited to announce the North American Registry for Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD), formally known as the United States Registry for Fibromuscular Dysplasia. The name change comes as the result of The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, becoming a participating registry center.
“We are really excited to be one of the sites for the FMD registry,” commented Dr. Swapnil Hiremath, the center’s principal investigator. “We need to build up excellence in care for FMD, which we hope will be possible as we learn more about it with the help of the data collected and knowledge generated with the registry.” Dr. Hiremath is a Staff Nephrologist at The Ottawa Hospital, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and Associate Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, specializing in hypertension. Dr. Hiremath first became interested in joining the registry after one of his patients with hypertension presented with stroke—they were subsequently found to have FMD.
In 2007, the Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America recognized the need for a regis