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Mission: Launch and support novel research and education initiatives to help fill the knowledge gap in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of gout, hyperuricemia, and crystal deposition-associated disorders (including cardiovascular diseases); facilitate the sharing of resources and information related to gout, hyperuricemia, and crystal-associated diseases; and foster networking and collaboration across related medical disciplines and scientific communities that care for and study these conditions. The larger aims of g-can are to grow networking between different medical specialties that care for patients with the aforementioned conditions, and to thereby advance research, therapy, and provider and patient education.
Programs: Annual meeting of 90 medical professionals to share knowledge of research and therapy for gout, hyperuricemia and crystal-assocated disease on november 4, 2016 in washington, dc