NTL.SCOLI. PROGRAM IN D.C.

October 22, 2004

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.

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