[Fwd: new ataxia clinic at UBC]

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FYI to west coast members: This clinic is in British Columbia, Canada

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Pam

--- new ataxia clinic at UBC

Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:15:27 -0700

From: queen@... (Fiona E. )

Hello everyone!

We've had some great news. Dr. Blair Leavitt, a neurogeneticist at UBC,

is

conducting clinics for ataxia and wants to reach all people affected

with

ataxia in the province. He currently has monthly clinics but plans to

increase these. There is currently a lot of development happening at

UBC as

part of the planned Brain Research Centre.

The hope is to model the ataxia clinic on the existing Huntington's

Disease

(HD) clinic which includes specialized staff including a genetic

counsellor,

a social worker, an occupational therapist as well as the

neurogeneticist.

In the case of the HD clinic they currently have three clinical trials

underway and have compiled a large database tracking the disease here in

BC.

If you'd like to find out more about the ataxia clinic or want your

general

practitioner to refer you there you (or your doctor) can call Jeanette

at

the clinic (currently shared with the HD clinic) at or

Dr.

Blair Leavitt at .

Best of luck to all!

If anyone wants more information about the BC Ataxia Society and how to

get

more involved (in the Lower Mainland at this point), please feel free to

get

in touch.

Fiona

queen@...