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Ventilator-Assisted Living
Community Calendar
Join us in Warm Springs, Georgia, at
for the 10th gathering of the post-polio community
coordinated by Post-Polio Health International.
Submit information about your upcoming event!
Send the name of the event, place and date, sponsor and contact information, plus a few descriptive details to webmaster@post-polio.org.
2008
JULY 17-20. Parent Project for Muscular Dystrophy. Lowe's Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. www.parentprojectmd.org
SEPTEMBER 12. 5th International Workshop on Breathing Pacemakers and Disorders of the Diaphragm. Avery Biomedical Devices, Inc., Sheraton New York Hotel, New York City. www.averybiomedical.com/downloads/workshop.pdf
Free of charge to attend, the workshop will feature an expert panel of physicians discussing the long-term results, issues and developments in the application of breathing pacemakers to treat spinal cord injury, central hypoventilation syndromes and disorders of the diaphragm.
SEPTEMBER 18-20. ALS/MND Nursing Symposium. Radisson Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. www.lesturnerals.org/educationactivities.htm#nursing
OCTOBER 4-8. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress. Berlin, Germany. www.ersnet.org
OCTOBER 25-30. CHEST 2008. American College of Chest Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. www.chestnet.org
NOVEMBER 3-5. 19th International Symposium on ALS/MND. Birmingham, England. www.alsmndalliance.org
DECEMBER 13-16. 54th International Respiratory Congress of the American Association for Respiratory Care. Anaheim, California. www.aarc.org
2009
JIVD 2009: 12th International Conference on Home Mechanical Ventilation will take place in Barcelona, Spain on March 27-28, 2009. The deadline for posters is December 31st, 2008. Contact the JIVD Secretariat (brigitte.hautier@free.fr) for more details.