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Southwest Region
Webinar: Bringing the ALS-FTD Clinical Experience into Focus
In the next AFTD Educational Webinar, Dr. Beth Rush from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL will provide an in-depth look at the ALS-FTD overlap experience. She will discuss the signs and features of motor neuron disease and how the presence…
Your Support Brings Help and Hope…
“What a hopeful day…I’m left with the image of so many families who you brought together sitting out on that sunny patio finding connection and support in one another…” 2019 AFTD Education Conference Attendee An FTD diagnosis can take years…
AFTD Recognizes Volunteers with First Volunteer Appreciation Dinner
On May 2 in Los Angeles, AFTD hosted its first Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. AFTD CEO Susan Dickinson and Volunteer Manager Kerri Keane joined several other AFTD staff members to recognize and thank all of the volunteers who helped to make…
World FTD Awareness Week 2019
World FTD Awareness Week, a week of events, activism and engagement, is organized each year by World FTD United, an international coalition of which AFTD is a member. For World FTD Awareness Week 2019, tell the world your FTD story. Use…
Food for Thought 2019
Food for Thought is a grassroots fundraising and awareness campaign focusing on food and FTD education. Held the last week of September through the first week of October, FFT encompasses World FTD Awareness Week. During this time, people across the…
Glendale, AZ Meet & Greet
Please join AFTD Volunteer Brian Fox for an informal gathering in Glendale, AZ to meet others in your community whose lives have been affected by FTD. An RSVP by July 24th would be appreciated. To RSVP, or for any questions,…
2nd Annual Buffalo Trace Charity Open
The 2nd Annual Buffalo Trace Charity Open will be held on August 24, 2019 at the Colorado National Golf Club. The event includes 18 holes of golf, bourbon tastings with Buffalo Trace Bourbon Ambassador, auction for rare bottles of bourbon…
AFTD Thanks Our Volunteers!
In honor of National Volunteer Appreciation Week (April 7-13), the staff of AFTD would like to thank all our amazing volunteers for donating their time and talents in support of our mission! To learn more about becoming an AFTD volunteer,…
Colorado Springs, CO Meet & Greet
Join AFTD Volunteer Nancy Harvalis and AFTD Southwest Regional Coordinator Volunteer, Kathy Urban, for an informal gathering in Colorado Springs, CO to meet others in your community whose lives have been affected by FTD. An RSVP by April 14th would…
Treating PSP, MSA, and CBD – What can be done?
Stanford University and Brain Support Network will be co-hosting a free, one-hour webinar on progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, and corticobasal degeneration. Dr. Brent Bluett, DO, movement disorders specialist, Stanford Movement Disorders Center, will present the webinar. Click here…