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Find a Support Group Check out our list of groups>>         UPCOMING EVENTS                    Be sure to sign up for the Ohio Chapter E-Newsletter, and Like our Facebook page for the latest happenings! Mentor / Willoughby Education Day - More info here! Saturday, September 16, 2017 Beavercreek: Bowl for Scleroderma Saturday, September 23, 2017 Register HERE!>>> Dayton Education Day - More info here! September 23, 2017 Delaware: Dave Ludolph Memorial Golf Outing Saturday, September 30, 2017 To register, please email: anapier01@gmail.com Cleveland Clinic Education Day October 7, 2017 Register HERE!>>> Cleveland Area: Gala Saturday, October 7, 2017 Register HERE!>>> If you'd like to reserve a room for the night of the gala at the Holiday Inn using our discounted room rate, please use this link to make your reservations: Holiday Inn, Independence  You can also call the hotel direct at 216-524-8050 and mention that you are attending the Scleroderma event.  That will secure the $92 room rate. See you there! If you missed an event to which you wanted to donate, you can still donate to the World Scleroderma Day Virtual Walk: DONATE HERE!

ADVOCACY RECENT NEWS! Scleroderma made it onto the list for the conditions to by studied by the 2017 Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program!  Now we need to work on getting on the list for 2018!  The only way to get on the list is to ask our Senators to recommend to the subcommittee that scleroderma receives research funding.  The advocacy committee will be getting letters signed at most events this year and sending them and /or hand-delivering them to our Ohio Senators, Senator Rob Portman and Senator Sherrod Brown. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still forming a collaborative team regarding fibrosis, even though our Scleroderma and Fibrosis Research Enhancement Act of 2015 didn’t pass!  If this bill had passed last December, it would have mandated that they facilitate the fibrotic diseases working together and using scleroderma as a prototype disease.  They have decided they will do this voluntarily.  This is a big win for scleroderma research and could be due to all of the hard work on the part of those affiliated with the Scleroderma Foundation in finding co-sponsors for the bill across the United States. The Ohio Chapter is working on getting a federal bill sponsored to officially designate June as Scleroderma Awareness Month throughout the whole United States.  Our lobbyists in Washington D.C. have helped us approach a potential sponsor for the bill.  Ohio Senators Portman and Brown may be co-sponsors.  We are very hopeful that it will pass unanimously very soon. Right now, we’re waiting to introduce another scleroderma bill to congress. In the meantime, you can ask your senator to keep scleroderma on the Department of Defense list of conditions to be studied in 2018!  It’s easy.   Action Item!  Please click here to sign a petition to ask your senators to keep scleroderma on the Department of Defense Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program list of conditions to be studied in 2018!   Our chapter won 4 awards at the 2017 National Patient Education Conference in Chandler, Arizona!  They were: Patient Support, Chapter Volunteer of the Year, National Volunteer of the Year, and Fundraiser of the Year!    Read about Ohio's Bill 133 - We got it passed!

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