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Migraine News for August 2004

MAGNUM Speaks to Staff Members of the CDC Washington, DC Offices of the
National Center for Health Statistics

 

(L to R) MAGNUM's Legislative Director Terri Burchfield; Patricia Ragwar, MSPH CDC Workforce & Worklife Coordinator; MAGNUM's Executive Director Michael John Coleman, MAGNUM Information Service Officer Susan Denny; and John L. Kiely, Ph.D. CDC Senior Research Scientist for Perinatal Epidemiology Chief.
   

 

Staffers at CDC National Center for Health Statistics enjoy MAGNUM lecture at their Hyattsville, Maryland office.

 

Susan speaking about episodic disabilities such as Migraine & diabetes.

 

Terri discussing the importance of Migraine disease public education.

 

Michael discussing the four phases of Migraine disease--prodrome, aura, attack, & postdrome.

 

Speakers (L to R) Susan Moeller Denny, Michael John Coleman, and Terri Miller Burchfield.

Staff members of MAGNUM, The National Migraine Association, delivered a Migraine disease health promotion and education presentation: 'How to Avoid and Overcome Migraines' for the CDC National Center for Health Statistics, located in Hyattsville Maryland, this past Thursday August 5, 2004.  Mr. Michael John Coleman, Executive Director, Ms. Terri Miller Burchfield, Legislative Director, and special guest speaker Susan Moeller Denny, MAGNUM's Information Services Director, will spoke to an enthusiastic audience about Migraine disease management from 2:00 pm to 3:10 pm. They provided fifty  minutes of lecture, and entertained a question and answer period of approximately twenty minutes afterwards to a very articulate and concerned group of CDC employees.  MAGNUM was received with a very positive response to their lecture.  With the most common comment being that individuals had learned more during this talk then they had in all their years of treatment for Migraine.  MAGNUM staff noted they where very grateful for the opportunity to discuss Migraine disease with their employees, and look forward to work on future joint activities.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Health Statistics
Hyattsville, MD
20782

(301) 458-4000

Current Press Release on MAGNUM CDC Talk:
   “How to Avoid and Overcome Migraines”

For more information please visit www.migraines.org.

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