Welcome to the Fall edition of Professional Connection. This E-Newsletter has been developed with you in mind. The Pacific South Coast Chapter Clinical Advisory Committee is proud to offer up-to-date and valuable information to our medical provider partners in 2011. This is your newsletter, so please send us your thoughts and suggestions and tell us what you would like to see more of in the coming months.
Pediatric MS
Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, Regional Pediatric MS Center
University of California, San Francisco
Although only 5% of MS patients have a clinical onset before the age of 18 years, pediatric MS gives us a window of opportunity to study the disease closer to exposures that contribute to its onset. In addition, the effect of age as a disease modifier is striking in this patient group, unraveling differences compared to adult MS that may help understand better disease processes. Read more.
Mark Your Calendars!
Save the Date! The Annual Meeting for the Consortium of MS Centers is coming to San Diego May 30-June 2, 2012. Stay tuned for more details in future issues of the Professional Connection.
Professional Resource Center:
The Society's Professional Resource Center houses the most comprehensive library of MS information in the world, and provides consultation services. Our goal is to partner with health care professionals to enhance quality of care and increase access to care for people with MS.
Multiple Sclerosis: A Sweet Interaction of Genetics and The Environment Points to New Sugar Therapy
Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD
Director, MS Center for Comprehensive Care
University of California, Irvine
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorder that results from complex interactions between inherited (genes) and environmental factors. The ideal therapy in MS would target an underlying causal mechanism of disease. Most research into the cause of MS has focused on identifying individual genetic and environmental risk factors, with little investigation or understanding for how these may combine to induce MS. Read more.
Program Highlights
Did you know the National MS Society offers hundreds of programs and services each year to assist people living with MS in your community? Please tell your patients with MS to call on us and see how we can help them live their best life. If you would like more information on how we can help your patients living with MS please contact us today to learn more.
Service Provider Highlights
The Goodwill Fitness and Technology Center in Orange County offers unique programs for individuals with disabilities including state of the art fitness equipment, trained staff, classes and assistive technologies support.
The Challenge Center in San Diego County offers a wide array of services focused on improving health, function and quality of life for individuals with disabilities. Services such as adapted fitness training, physical therapy evaluations and therapeutic classes are offered on a sliding scale.
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The Professional Toolkit has been created with you in mind. The Pacific South Coast Chapter Clinical Advisory Committee is made up of volunteer clinicians who know what caring for MS patients is about. Together, they have created this informative toolkit so health care professionals can access the tools they need most, right at their fingertips. Bookmark it today.
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Join The Party!
Come join us on November 19, 2011 for an evening of fun at the MS Dinner Auction benefitting the National MS Society. For information on tickets and tables or making a donation visit us on the web.
Party like a Rockstar on January 15, 2012 at the P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon & 1/2 Marathon to benefit the National MS Society! Don’t just be another runner, join the MS Rockstars and be an ULTRA VIP. Do Something Big! For Yourself. For Others. For a Cause.