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Travel with FAIR and meet a few of our
newest members
and audiences receiving the FAIR Foundation presentation. If
you would like Dr. Darling to come and present to your group,
email him at fair@dc.rr.com or phone
him at 760-200-2766.
At the American Optometric Association's
Annual
Conference in Las Vegas many new
doctors and their wives joined our effort. We were also honored to have many students
who
soon
will be licensed Doctors of Optometry add their name to our rolls.
Bill & Joan McMaken, Las Vegas, whose
Kimberly Dillivan and Michelle Cardwell
Adam Keech and Kelly Sirovan
help in booth preparation was invaluable
Three Rivers, MI and Plymouth, MI
both from Waterloo, Ont., CAN
Rjolan Marbun, Nashville, TN
Dr. Tim Fields, St. Joseph, Missouri Mark/Susan Nelson,
Jacksonville, AR
Christine Dodge, Pineville, LA
(L) George Mera (L), Eules, TX and Jan
Svochak, VP Dr. Robert Sutter, Columbia, MO
and Megan Macmillan, Morristown, NJ
TruForm Quality Service
Vision
Barbara Burwick (L), New Braunfels, Dr. Don Fong, Sacramento,
Diana Eastburn Dr. Kris Kerestan, Wilder, KY with her
TX and Melissa Stephenson,
Ludlam, Hillsboro, OR. They are President
two sons, Chris (L) and Nathan
Sequin, TX
(Don) and VP of Neuro-Optometric Rehab
Our CEO, Dr. Darling, with Kelley
Doctors Alan Rapaport, Canton, MA (L)
David Mindolovich with the US
Taylor, San Ramon, CA
and Mark O'Donoghue, Nashua, NH
Army from Hillsboro, OR
Dr. Dan Hennessey, Little Rock, AR OD student
members Irene Gendelman Dr./Mrs. (Kristie) Scott-Greensboro, NC
Smit Patel and Lisa Guerrero (L)
Doctors Kenyon Anderson (L), Idaho
Dr. Kevin Kasovich (L) with Dr. Darling
Dr. Jan Cooper, Adjunct Clinical
Falls, ID and Camron Bateman,
Thibodaux, LA Professor for Dept. of Opthalmology
Sandy, UT Loma Linda University Medical Center
Here with her copy of Dr. Darling's
book
Coma Life
..and with great thanks to the
dozens upon
dozens of new FAIR members who joined
while in the one and only...Las Vegas, NV
with Sandy Sulzman,
Scottsdale, AZ
In Sacramento, CA at the Hepatitis C
Disparities Conference
Diana Sylvestre, MD, addresses the audience
The second day saw hepatitis C organizations
Day 1 saw a five-man panel discussing the
meeting with legislative assistants to CA
disparities between in governmental response
Assemblypersons with a call for the establish-
between hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. Two FAIR
ment of a Division of Hepatitis within the Dept
Board members participated in the panel: our of
Health and funding for hepatitis patients.
CEO (2nd from left) and Lorenzo Rossaro, MD
(far right). Dozens of new members joined FAIR.
Dr. Darling attended day 1 as CEO of FAIR and
day 2 as the Founder of the Coachella Valley
Hepatitis C, Liver Disease & Transplant Support Group and as an HCV
patient. Dr. Silvestre
organized the events and was named Chair of the CA Hepatitis Alliance, an
organization
consisting of CA hepatitis groups dedicated to improving the services and
treatment available
for HCV patients. There was no mention in the first Newsletter of the
need for more research
to develop better drugs for HCV patients.
In Palm Desert, California to Senior Citizens at
the
Atria Hacienda Assisted Living Facility
Dr. Darling regularly introduces a few of the The crowd is educated
that HIV funding went
members of our Board, including
Ray Hill from $2,400 in 1999 to
$3,040 versus
others
Elizabeth Taylor complains to Congress that
President Clinton, in the ABC-TV video, says
HIV funding should be much greater
says he was spending ten times more on HIV
than on breast cancer or prostate cancer
The # 1 killer of Americans, cardiovascular
Atria Palm Desert, one of the premier
disease: 930,000 deaths to 15,798 for HIV
senior living facilities in the United States
Watching the
Powerful ABC-TV Video In Palm Desert, California
are
members of ACT I:
a partnership of organizations that
educate and provide medical services to enhance the quality of life or
culturally diverse populations, including the disabled and elderly
Medical professionals view our hero,
Joan
A very attentive and receptive crowd urged
Samuelson and her
battle for Parkinson's $$ Dr. Darling and
FAIR to continue their work
in Congress.
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