Dear Friends, Every day we are helping people impacted by MS and joining forces with others in our community who want to do something about MS. While multiple sclerosis specifically destroys connections within the brain, our connections with one another are making us stronger! By working together, we are truly assisting more people in more meaningful ways, stretching our donor dollars further, and engaging more volunteers, participants, advocates, sponsors and community partners in our mission. While this report highlights many of our accomplishments from 2012, some of our work is hard to quantify like the feeling of hope when parents of a newly diagnosed child learn about advancements in MS research from partnerships around the world, the sense of mobility when a once homebound client can leave because we worked with community partners to outfit the family car for his disability, the promise of quality care when a young physician begins his career as a Society Fellow working alongside today’s experts, or the camaraderie found as a first-time Bike MS participant riding in honor of his late brother finds strength in joining forces with others. These immeasurable forces propel us forward each day in our efforts to create a world free of MS. Thank you for your support!
Bob Harmon, Chairman
Annette Royle-Mitchell, President
2012 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bob Harmon, Board Chair (2012) Nicole Lengel, Treasurer Safia Keller, Chair-Elect (2013) Cecil Hedger, Secretary Annette Royle-Mitchell, Chapter President Richard Baringer, M.D. Tracy Crowell Richard Flint John Foley, M.D. Sarah Foltman Jay Gurmankin
Jeana Hutchings Cindy Kindred Philip G. McCarthey Jordan Needles Todd Oldroyd Irene Petrogeorge
Colleen Roberts John Rose, M.D. Ann Sasich Sheila Steiner Danny Velasquez
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