NEXT OFFER EDUCATION
MEETING
March 7, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Loren Lambert, J.D.
(OFFER Board Member)
"Legal Do's and Don'ts of a Disability
Claim"
Location:
Council Chambers, Salt Lake County Complex North
Building
2001
South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT.
(Park free at the northeast corner of the
complex)
OFFER's Education Meetings are the
first Wednesday of each month at
7:00 p.m., and are free and
open to everyone.
LOOKING FOR A DOCTOR?
Are you
a patient looking for a physician knowledgeable
about diagnosing and treating CFS and FMS? Have you
been on waiting lists for those precious few
physicians who are well qualified to treat your
illness? If so, you can help OFFER help you! We
need your help to add to the pool of physicians who
understand and treat these illnesses. This is the
exact purpose of our Provider Conference:
Advances in Understanding and Treating Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome on May 4
and 5, 2007. All physicians are required
to earn continuing education credits to maintain
their license. Our conference is a great way for
your physician to earn these credits. If you can
send OFFER an email with your physician's name and
address, we will send your physician a registration
brochure that will explain the groundbreaking scope
of this, our most important conference ever. Why is
it so important? New fundamental insights into
these illnesses and the latest diagnostic and
treatment protocols will be presented. If you are
able to help us help you, please click on
offerregistration@yahoo.com and help us to send
the provider brochure to your healthcare provider
and/or any healthcare provider you would like to
attend. The conference is only two months away.
Please respond at once. Thank you so much!
OFFER 2007
Conferences rapidly approaching!
Register NOW for the OFFER PATIENT
CONFERENCE!!!
We have some exciting news! Lynne
Matallana, National Fibromyalgia Association
President, has agreed to make a
presentation at our Patient Conference.
Lynne is the FMA Founder, Fibromyalgia Aware
Magazine Publisher, on the FDA Center for
Drug Evaluation Research Arthritis Advisory
Committee, member of National Institue of
Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases
Coalition, featured on Newsweek, Dateline
NBC, in numerous national media, on
television and radio broadcasts, and is the
author of The Complete Idiot's Guide:
Fibromyalgia. You can read more about
this inspiring woman who was diagnosed with
Fibromyalgia in 1995 by going to:
http://www.offerutah.org/Conference.html
and clicking on "Speakers Biographies and
Photos".
The Patient Conference is
set for the afternoon of Saturday,
May 5th, 2007. This is only two
months away! Make sure that you register by
April 27th, 2007 to take advantage of the
early registration discount!
"Never giving up and pushing forward
will unlock all the potential we are capable
of."
Author: Christy Borgeld
IN THE NEWS LINKS
Pregabalin Offers Pain Relief Option for
Fibromyalgia in Long Term Study
The 8th International IACFS Conference on
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and other
Related Illnesses took place in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida from January 10-14. It was a
groundbreaking conference with five days of
outstanding presentations. Our Chairman, Stuart
Drescher, Ph.D., and our Executive Director, Lucinda
Bateman, MD, attended the Patient and Provider
Conferences. We hope to get their impressions and
insights on this conference in our next OFFER
E-NEWS.
View January IACFS Conference
Summary
By Anthony Komaroff,
M.D.
Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
Laymen's Guide to the
8th IACFS Professional Conference
By Cort Johnson
Editor of Phoenix
Rising: A CFS/FMS Newsletter
INFO-LINKS
OFFER's Web Site
Helping Others
Helps You
Vijai P.
Sharma, Ph.D
Helping others is good for
your health. It is healthy to forget yourself
on a regular basis and concentrate on helping
others. Volunteer to care for someone, but
limit it to the extent that you can handle
without taxing yourself. A study which involved
2,700 residents in Tecumseh, Michigan, observed
that residents who volunteer their time for
community organizations were two and a half
times less likely to die from any diseases
compared to those who did not volunteer.
"Life without love is like a tree
without blossoms or fruit.”
Author: Kahlil Gibran
VOLUNTEER CORNER
OFFER is in need of
volunteers who would like to help in one or more
of the following areas:
- Education
Meeting: sales, planning speakers,
publicizing, information table, running
microphone, operating camera
- Data entry,
office/clerical/phones
- Fundraising
- Special
event planning and operating (Conference
Planning, etc.)
- DVD/CD
production, editing, and packaging
-
Distribution of Brochures and DVD's
- Website
content review and writing
- Public
service announcements and publicity
- Writing
reviews of monthly education meetings
- Shopping,
errands, cleaning, driving, cooking, etc.
for homebound individuals
If you have interest in
doing any of these, please call OFFER at
328-8080 or send an email to:
offerregistration@yahoo.com.
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