May 2020

Ronald Lissak

FPN Welcomes New Board Member, Ron Lissak

Ron Lissak joined FPN’s Board of Directors on May 15, 2020, bringing valuable expertise as a businessman, board member of other nonprofits, and PN patient. Ron currently resides in Bondville, VT, and is Vice President, National Marketing and Site Development for Ionetix Corporation, the leading supplier of 13 Ammonia for cardiac PET scanning. He has …

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Translational Pain Research Study

Do you have numbness and tingling or pain in your feet from diabetes? Do you have pain after shingles (postherpetic pain)? The Translational Pain Research Group at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, is seeking volunteers who have diabetic nerve pain or pain following shingles to participate in a research study. Volunteers who …

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Faces of PN: Living with Multifocal Motor Neuropathy

Edward from the UK shares his PN journey with us: The train is here, and I’m already late for my first internship. Better sprint the short 50 m distance between my front door and the train station – as I am quickly becoming a master at. It’s been raining, in typical British fashion. August monsoon …

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the u.s. capital building

FPN Government Relations Update: May 2020

For most of the past two months, Congress – like most of the country – has been in lockdown and working remotely to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has presented organizations like the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy with significant challenges in executing our grassroots advocacy strategies, particularly for any objectives related to the fiscal …

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Ask The Expert, Part 2: Peripheral Neuropathy and COVID-19

Following our latest Ask the Expert session, the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy‘s Executive Director, Lindsay Colbert, asked its Scientific Advisory Board Chairman, Dr. Ahmet Höke MD, PhD, additional questions which came directly from the Foundation’s patients. We are continually learning about COVID-19 and its impact on peripheral neuropathy patients. We hope that you find the …

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We need you for #PeripheralNeuropathyAwareness 2020!

Raise Awareness for Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week We need to come together to raise #PeripheralNeuropathyAwareness during Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week (May 4-10, 2020) and beyond! An estimated 30 million people in the United States alone experience symptoms of peripheral neuropathy, and even more people worldwide. And yet, it is still a secret disease: no one …

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