Chicago-March 29th--CCSVI Alliance Symposium
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Chicago-March 29th--CCSVI Alliance Symposium
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
CCSVI Alliance presents an Educational Symposium
Dr. Michael Dake--moderator with a panel of eight experts
Further details to follow--
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You can register here: http://tinyurl.com/63d5vwqCome and hear leading medical and scientific professionals discuss current key questions and concerns related to Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The multi-disciplinary panel includes:
Michael Dake, MD -- Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor (III), Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University
Bulent Arslan, MD -- Associate Professor of Radiology, University of South Florida
E. Mark Haacke, PhD -- Director of MR Facility, Wayne State University
Ziv Haskal, MD -- Professor of Radiology and Surgery Chief, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, University of Maryland
Lindsay Machan, MD -- Radiologist, Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver British Colombia, Canada
Donald Ponec, MD -- Interventional Radiologist, Director of Interventional Radiology, Tri-City Medical Center - California
Salvatore Sclafani, MD -- Interventional Radiology & Vascular Radiology
Gary Siskin, MD -- Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Albany Medical Center
The panel will also take written questions from the audience. Contact deborah.huntermills@ccsvi.org with any questions about the event or registration. Hope to see you there!
Quite a line-up!
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Hope lots of Chicago area people can make it. The event is free of charge, and will be very enlightening.
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CCSVI Alliance is working hard to keep the doctors talking, the studies coming, and the progress continuing.
The Tampa event was a huge success--lots of new doctors (neurologists and vascular) learned about CCSVI from the original investigators, and are now going ahead with their own studies. And the patients got to meet each other and spend a wonderful weekend together.
This is truly a grassroots effort. We're thankful for all the support.
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Dr. Avertano Noronha, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Chicago
Avertano Noronha, MD, provides skilled care for patients with neurological conditions. He has particular interests in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), autoimmune diseases, inherited neurological conditions, neurological complications of pregnancy, and neurological problems associated with medical disorders. He also provides expert second opinions for complex neurological disease.
Dr. Noronha is actively involved in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. He lectures regularly on neuroimmunology and neurological diseases. He is also the creator and instructor of "Workings of the Human Brain," a neuroscience course at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Noronha often speaks at national and international conferences on multiple sclerosis and other topics in neurology. He is also an ad hoc reviewer for several scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Immunology, and Neurology.
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It was wonderful!
It was also wonderful to meet and talk to some of the many people that came who had already had the procedure. We were able to connect to hear their stories and it was in person....not cyberspace

My husband can't wait to have the procedure done. The doctors did make the point that things are changing day by day and how they treat CCSVI now is not how they will be doing it in a year. They are all learning at such a great pace and they said that perhaps for some people, it might be beneficial to keep watching from the sidelines and wait a bit before having it done. But when you talked to the people that had already had it...it made you want to schedule it right away!
The doctors also mentioned how hard it is to get funding for the trials they would like to do. MS Society isn't too gung-ho on it, drug companies have no interest either. So if anyone knows any multi-millionaires with MS or a MS connection and generous heart... send them to these doctors! It would move things even faster.
Definately well worth it! .......... but paying $50 to park was a bit painful!
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Best of luck as you continue in your own search for answers for your husband. I'm with you on that,
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Interventional Radiologists Advance MS Research: Vein-opening
Treatment Safe
http://www.sirweb.org/news/newsPDF/3_MS_final.pdf
Quote from the press release:
SIR stresses the importance for MS patients to continue an ongoing dialogue with their neurologists to discuss their treatment care. unquote
This is all very nice but what if the dialogue is cut off by the neurologist? what if you can not find a neurologist in your country who is open to discuss?
This shows the huge systemic problem, it's a problem of cultural preparation.
Governments should help here, not to solve the medical issues as such, but to facilitate a truly multidisciplinary collaboration, to avoid that energies are spent on abstruse debates of identity and status, to ensure the interests of the patients prevail at all times.
Incidently, this should involve the endocrinologists/micro-cellular specialists as well. see http://www.thisisms.com/ftopict-15188.html
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Many new relationships were forged, many interested doctors (including neurologists) attended and were intrigued and excited by the scientific discussion. Thousands of IRs heard discussion and presentation of CCSVI angioplasty as a potential treatment for MS symptoms at the SIR conference, where CCSVI Alliance hosted a table---there will be many more conferences and discussions in the US and around the world in the next year. Dr. Zamboni is in Australia this week.
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