Photos: Research & Education Project

Pamela Cazzolli, RN gives a poster research presentation at the American Academy of Neurology conference in Toronto on April 13, 2010. Standing on her left is Benjamin Rix Brooks, MD, second co-author of the study. Dr. Brooks is Director of the Carolinas Neuromuscular/MDA-ALS Center, Charlotte, NC.	Cazzolli visits with Dr. Benjamin Rix Brooks and his multidisciplinary team at the MDA/ALS Clinic, Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Cazzolli is working under the direction of Dr. Brooks.
Akiko Ogura, RN, MSN, PhD and Yuki Nakayama, RN, PhD, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Research Field for Motor and Sensory System, Department of Nursing Research for Intractable Disease. Yuki and her team are working in collaboration with Pamela Cazzolli, RN of the ALS Care Project on research studies to help establish needed guidelines to improve the care for ALS.	Cazzolli trains nurses on use of the oral secretion scale at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience Research Field for Motor and Sensory System, Department of Nursing Research for Intractable Disease. The nurses later used the scale with success for predicting tolerance of nasal ventilation in 20 ALS patients.
Educating on the oral secretion scale at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience. About 50 staff members attended the lecture.	Pamela Cazzolli, RN gives a poster presentation at an international conference. She reports on her study of 118 ALS patients who began unplanned life support during emergency hospitalizations. On her left is Dr Douglas Mckim, co-author of the study. He is Director of the Rehabilitation Centre at the University of Ottawa.
Co-chairing the quality of life session at the International Chronic Ventilatory Support Conference in Tel Aviv	Gives lecture on how ventilator users can achieve a quality of life at the International Conference on Chronic Ventilated Patients in Tel Aviv, Israel. The program was sponsored by Reuth Medical Center, a respiratory care center in Tel Aviv.
On right is Dr. Ditza Gross, Chairman of the Chronic Ventilated International Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel.	Dr. Ditza Gross, Director of Respiratory Rehabilitation, Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the ALS Care Project.
Pamela Cazzolli gives oral presentation on her 20 year study of ALS patients who used breathing support at home at the 18th ALS/MND International Symposium, held in Toronto, Canada	Tiffany Slovan of the ALS Care Project attends the 18th International Symposium on ALS/MND with Cazzolli in Toronto, Canada
Clinicians networking at the 18th ALS/MND International Symposium	Cazzolli provides program for healthcare professionals in the local community on management of problems associated with ALS.
Tiffany Slovan of the ALS Care Project, shares her experiences as an ALS family caregiver to caregivers of a home care agency.	78 hired caregivers from home care agencies in Ohio attend program by Cazzolli on caring for ALS patients
Educating nurses and social workers on the respiratory management of ALS and life choices	Meeting with Dr. Hideaki Hayashi, Director General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience to discuss survival and outcomes of ALS patients using tracheostomy ventilation. Dr. Hayashi is a world renown neurologist for his research on long term survival of ALS.
Meeting with staff at a rehabilitation hospital in Japan to discuss strategies for improving the care for ALS	Cazzolli participates in a panel discussion on ALS care at the Intractable Disease Nursing Society in Tokyo. 400 nurses and physicians attended the several day conference.
Meeting with nurses to plan best care interventions of their ALS patients at home.	Cazzolli is appreciative of the hospitality by Michiko Fukami, a respiratory nurse who specializes in home mechanical ventilation of ALS patients, and to Fuji Respironics for sponsoring visits to Japan.
Fumiko Wako RN, Manager, Dept of International Affairs, Japanese Nursing Association introduces Cazzolli who gave lecture on use of nasal mask ventilation in ALS patients to respiratory care practitioners.	Louis Boitano, MS, RRT, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, teaches on use of mouthpiece ventilation at the International Conference on Home Mechanical Ventilation in Lyon, France
Tiffany Slovan, of the ALS Care Project, attends the 18th International Symposium on ALS/MND with Cazzolli to get updated on current ALS research.	Cazzolli attends CHEST (annual pulmonary conference) in Chicago with colleague, Diana Guth, RRT, owner of a respiratory care company in LA