PCD 2025

Patient Community Day 2025

Patient Community Day (PCD) took place on 26 September 2025 in Barcelona and online – bringing together more than 3,500 participants from 89 countries.

This annual event is created for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and related conditions, as well as their caregivers. It offers clear, reliable updates on the latest research and care — shared directly by experts following the ECTRIMS 2025 Congress.

PCD helps patients better understand their condition, stay informed about new developments, and feel more connected to the global MS community.

Watch the session recordings and discover the PCD 2025 Impact Report below, featuring key insights, event highlights, and the global impact of PCD.

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Patient Community Day Impact Report 2025

Patient Community Day — ECTRIMS’ flagship annual event for people living with MS and related conditions — exists to ensure that the people living with MS, NMOSD, and MOGAD are equipped not only with information, but with agency. Our goal in 2025 was to create long-term, system-level impact by:

♥ Empowering patients with accessible, actionable science: From research breakthroughs to emerging therapies, biomarkers, and rehabilitation insights, PCD helps patients understand what new discoveries mean for their daily lives. In 2025, 95% of participants found the programme relevant, while 79% plan to use the information with their healthcare teams — a clear indicator of real-world impact.

♥ Strengthening global partnerships and community infrastructure: Our 2025 network of 40+ Supporting Partners across 17 countries, double the number from 2024, demonstrates the accelerating momentum behind a more unified global patient community. These partners amplify access, drive local engagement, and help ensure that PCD’s legacy extends far beyond the one-day event

♥ Expanding equity and representation across continents and communities: PCD 2025 welcomed its first Supporting Partner from Africa, broadened faculty representation to 10 countries (up from six in 2024), and delivered AI-powered translation in 50+ languages, ensuring that knowledge not only travels globally, but lands meaningfully in diverse communities.

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Video Archive: Patient Community Day 2025

Session One: Latest developments across the patient journey

Living with MS and related neurological conditions is often described as a journey. And each step is an important milestone with unique challenges. To open this year’s Patient Community Day, our Panel of Experts took a tour of the patient journey, from diagnosis to treatment and rehabilitation.

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Lived Experience Panel

The Lived Experience Panel invited people from around the globe to share their personal stories and highlight the ways in which they are actively shaping research. Through patient advocacy, working with national and international organisations, and taking part in registries and clinical studies, each speaker demonstrated the crucial role of patients in the research process.

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Session 2: Advances in Hot Topics

In this session, our seven Expert Panellists dove into various “hot topics” – defined as those topics that matter most to people living with MS and related conditions – from everyday challenges such as cognition, to breakthroughs in biomarkers, genetics, and artificial intelligence.

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Ask the Expert Online Session

PCD 2025 included an Ask the Expert segment to give remote participants around the world more time to pose questions directly to expert neurologists. Topics covered included diet and the microbiome in MS, the impact of perimenopause on MS. ageing and MS, and the impact of co-morbidities.

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Our Supporting Partners

Patient Community Day would not be possible without the amazing contributions of our Supporting Partners, who play an integral role in fostering awareness, education, and community engagement of this important event. Visit our Supporting Partner page to get connected with them.

Meet Our Sponsors

A special thank you to our sponsors, whose involvement ensures that Patient Community Day remains a beacon of hope and a source of the latest information for the people living with MS and related neurological conditions around the world.