RE: NTL.SCOLI. PROGRAM IN D.C.

[Guest guest]

Beth, I am too far away to attend but hope you will update us on

anything you learn! Enjoy,Cam

[Guest guest]

Unfortunately it is at the wrong end of the country for me, but I would love

to hear anything interesting that you find out at the Conference. Hope you

learn lots and have fun.

Llweyn

NTL.SCOLI. PROGRAM IN D.C.

Hi fellow Feistys'!

Is anyone else going to be attending the National Scoliosis Foundation

Patient/Doctor Dialogue that is being held at the National Museum of Health

and Medicine tomorrow, October 23, 2004?? I only just received the

program/registration form in the mail on Wednesday but I made a call and

they are still accepting registrations..so I signed up to go.

It sounds like it's going to be a pretty interesting program folks. The

program is being held in connection with the exibition of the incredible art

by Ferguson. Her paintings are beautifully haunting works of art. " She

has spent the past 12 years pursuing an artist's inquiry into

scoliosis " ...that's a direct quote about her paintings from the brochure.

Also according to the brochure, " The program includes a series of question

and answer sessions along with individual and group discussions to foster

communications on the topics and issues most important to

patients.Participants will also have the opprotunity to learn about and

comment on the Walter Visual Assesment Scale (WRVAS) , a survey

instrument recently developed by the Scoliosis Research Society to measure

patients' perceptions of specific visuala aspects of scoliosis. "

Presenters at the seminar will be: Ferguson (the artist); ph P.

O'Brien, President and CEO of the National Scoliosis Foundation, patient

advocate and educator; W. Polly, Jr., M.D., primary author of the

WRVAS, formerly Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Walter and currently

Chief of SPine Service and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University

Of Missesota; and the moderator, ne Noe, PhD., Director of the

National Museum of Health and Medicine.

The porgram is being held on 10/223/04 from 10 AM 'till 2 PM at the

National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of

Pathology. This museum is located at Walther Medical Center at 6900

Georgia Ave. in Washington, D.C. Registrations ($30.00) can be mde by

calling 781-341-8333 or 800-673-6922. You can also read the info at

www.scoliosis.org and you can view some of Ferguson's art works at

www.lauraferguson.net

I would love to meet some of my Feisty Friends at this seminar! Please

e-mail me at bunce1117@... and let me know if I'll see you there!

Sorry this notification is so late but like I said, I just got it, too.

All the best,

Beth B.

[Guest guest]

Hi Beth,

I'm too far away, too. Any chance they've set up some sort of thing

on the web so that we who are far away could still participate?

loriann

> Hi fellow Feistys'!

>

> Is anyone else going to be attending the National Scoliosis

Foundation Patient/Doctor Dialogue that is being held at the National

Museum of Health and Medicine tomorrow, October 23, 2004?? I only

just received the program/registration form in the mail on Wednesday

but I made a call and they are still accepting registrations..so I

signed up to go.

>

> It sounds like it's going to be a pretty interesting program folks.

The program is being held in connection with the exibition of the

incredible art by Ferguson. Her paintings are beautifully

haunting works of art. " She has spent the past 12 years pursuing an

artist's inquiry into scoliosis " ...that's a direct quote about her

paintings from the brochure.

>

> Also according to the brochure, " The program includes a series of

question and answer sessions along with individual and group

discussions to foster communications on the topics and issues most

important to patients.Participants will also have the opprotunity to

learn about and comment on the Walter Visual Assesment Scale

(WRVAS) , a survey instrument recently developed by the Scoliosis

Research Society to measure patients' perceptions of specific visuala

aspects of scoliosis. "

>

> Presenters at the seminar will be: Ferguson (the artist);

ph P. O'Brien, President and CEO of the National Scoliosis

Foundation, patient advocate and educator; W. Polly, Jr., M.D.,

primary author of the WRVAS, formerly Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at

Walter and currently Chief of SPine Service and Professor of

Orthopedic Surgery at the University Of Missesota; and the moderator,

ne Noe, PhD., Director of the National Museum of Health and

Medicine.

>

> The porgram is being held on 10/223/04 from 10 AM 'till 2 PM at the

National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute

of Pathology. This museum is located at Walther Medical Center

at 6900 Georgia Ave. in Washington, D.C. Registrations ($30.00) can

be mde by calling 781-341-8333 or 800-673-6922. You can also read the

info at www.scoliosis.org and you can view some of Ferguson's

art works at www.lauraferguson.net

>

> I would love to meet some of my Feisty Friends at this seminar!

Please e-mail me at bunce1117@c... and let me know if I'll see you

there! Sorry this notification is so late but like I said, I just got

it, too.

>

> All the best,

> Beth B.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I can't go, but please tell Dr. Polly I said hello, and I'm doing well -- he did

my first fusion at Walter Read when I was 19! He only fused L3-S1, hoping that

the rest of my curve would correct, but I ended up having a revision and

extension of the surgery (T11-S1) a few years ago.

Carolyn

NTL.SCOLI. PROGRAM IN D.C.

Hi fellow Feistys'!

Is anyone else going to be attending the National Scoliosis Foundation

Patient/Doctor Dialogue that is being held at the National Museum of Health and

Medicine tomorrow, October 23, 2004?? I only just received the

program/registration form in the mail on Wednesday but I made a call and they

are still accepting registrations..so I signed up to go.

It sounds like it's going to be a pretty interesting program folks. The

program is being held in connection with the exibition of the incredible art by

Ferguson. Her paintings are beautifully haunting works of art. " She has

spent the past 12 years pursuing an artist's inquiry into scoliosis " ...that's a

direct quote about her paintings from the brochure.

Also according to the brochure, " The program includes a series of question and

answer sessions along with individual and group discussions to foster

communications on the topics and issues most important to patients.Participants

will also have the opprotunity to learn about and comment on the Walter

Visual Assesment Scale (WRVAS) , a survey instrument recently developed by the

Scoliosis Research Society to measure patients' perceptions of specific visuala

aspects of scoliosis. "

Presenters at the seminar will be: Ferguson (the artist); ph P.

O'Brien, President and CEO of the National Scoliosis Foundation, patient

advocate and educator; W. Polly, Jr., M.D., primary author of the WRVAS,

formerly Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Walter and currently Chief of SPine

Service and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University Of Missesota; and

the moderator, ne Noe, PhD., Director of the National Museum of Health and

Medicine.

The porgram is being held on 10/223/04 from 10 AM 'till 2 PM at the National

Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. This

museum is located at Walther Medical Center at 6900 Georgia Ave. in

Washington, D.C. Registrations ($30.00) can be mde by calling 781-341-8333 or

800-673-6922. You can also read the info at www.scoliosis.org and you can view

some of Ferguson's art works at www.lauraferguson.net

I would love to meet some of my Feisty Friends at this seminar! Please e-mail

me at bunce1117@... and let me know if I'll see you there! Sorry this

notification is so late but like I said, I just got it, too.

All the best,

Beth B.