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Posted by: The Sumaira Foundation in NMOSD, Patient, Voices of TSF
Nobody told me that retirement was going to be so challenging! I was ready to start enjoying the fruits of my labor, when the unexpected happened… As with all things […]
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On Saturday, March 9, 2024, we hosted our New England Patient Day for NMOSD & MOGAD in Boston in collaboration with Dr. Michael Levy and Dr. Marcelo Matiello of Massachusetts […]
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January 26, 2024 — At TSF, we believe in the power of medical research for achieving breakthroughs toward better patient quality of life. In line with this ideology, many of […]
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September 5, 2023 — The Sumaira Foundation is pleased to welcome Professor Lekha Pandit of Nitte University in Mangalore, India, to join TSF’s international Medical Advisory Board. Pr. Pandit joins TSF […]
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August 10, 2022 – The Sumaira Foundation is pleased to welcome Dr. Sara Mariotto, neurologist at Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona (AOUI Verona), as the first member from Italy America to join […]
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My NMO journey started just a few weeks after having my first baby girl in August 2020. Being a first time mom, I had no idea what postpartum should look […]
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Maureen is a nurse. She worked in neurocritical care at Johns Hopkins Hospital for many years before she had ever heard of NMO. But in 2007, shortly after Dr. Benjamin […]
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February 18, 2020 — SRNA is proud to collaborate with The Sumaira Foundation for NMO, Connor B. Judge Foundation, and The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation to launch ABCs of NMOSD, a 10-part […]
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Virginia was only 10 when, while checking the mail one day in April, she noticed a grayness in her vision, “like leaves creeping up from the bottom of my eye.” […]
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I was 33 years old in 1993, when I experienced a sudden attack of optic neuritis, an inflammation that damages the optic nerve causing vision loss. A small black dot, […]
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