March 1, 2012
MSVN is partnering with the MSF to provide much needed educational information to the Multiple Sclerosis Community
MSF Ready to Kick off Awareness Month Activities
“At Your Best with MS” is the MSF’s theme for the 2012 National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month (NMSEAM) in March. The MSF chose this theme to encourage people with MS to do everything they can to maintain the best quality of life possible with the disease. Get involved by participating in these NMSEAM activities:
2012 Awareness Month Initiative: Win a Cruise for Two!
For the MSF’s 2012 Awareness Month Initiative we invite you to “Show us Your Best.” What do you do well? What skill or talent are you most proud of? Are you a great artist? Awesome dancer? Do you have a knack for motivating others? Maybe you are good at listening and being supportive. Perhaps you are best at planning and setting goals.
So, “Show us Your Best” and tell us how you use “your best” to do one or more of the following: promote MS awareness and education, help others, and raise funds for the MS cause. We would also like to know how using your best skill or talent makes you be “At Your Best with MS.”
As always, we encourage you to be creative in your submission: write a poem, short story, or an essay (no more than 500 words); make a video or record a song; take a photograph or assemble a collage. Just do your best!
The grand prize winner will be a cruise for two aboard the MSF’s 2013 Cruise for a Cause. Five honorable mentions will be awarded $50 gift cards.
Submissions will be accepted through March 31st. Be sure to include your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address if you have one. Send your entry to Awareness Initiative, Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, 6520 N. Andrews Ave. , Ft. Lauderdale , FL 33309
Teleconferences Make MS Experts Accessible
MS Treatments and Symptom Management
Daniel Kantor, M.D., Neurologist
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. EST / 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. PST
Sponsored by an educational grant from TEVA Neuroscience
MS in the World of Work
Phillip D. Rumrill, Ph.D., CRC
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. EST / 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. PST
Urinary Tract Issues and Sexual Dysfunction in MS
S. Ali Khan, Professor of Urology
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. EST / 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. PST
To register call Gloria at 1-888-673-6287, Ext. 126
Become a MSF Ambassador
MSF ambassadors, located in communities across the country, are important members of our MSF team. As representatives of the Foundation, they help spread MS awareness as well as information about MSF programs and services. If you are interested in joining the next class of MSF ambassadors, or in learning more about what is involved, you will find guidelines and an application in the Winter 2012 issue of the MSFocus (available soon.) Or find one online at http://www.msfocus.org/Ambassador-Application.pdf
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