MS Connect Conference:

Living Well & Finding Balance

Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria Ave, Brandon

Friday, October 16, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Online registration is now closed. Please call our office at (204) 571-5671 to purchase tickets.

Join us as the MS Connect Conference returns to Brandon, Manitoba for a day of education, conversation, exploration, and connection as we explore living well and finding balance. We are thrilled to announce Dr. Allen Clarke Bowling, Physician Associate of the Colorado Neurological Institute, Clinical Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado; Dr. Sarah Morrow, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Clinical Neurological Sciences, Western University; and, Dr. Alexander Ng, PhD, Associate Professor, Exercise Science Program, Marquette University are the keynote speakers. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

MS Connect Conference Schedule

9:00: Conference Registration and Healthy Snacks

9:45: Welcoming Remarks

9:55: Morning Yoga Stretch

10:00: Dr. Allen Clarke Bowling: A New Paradigm of MS Care: Optimizing Health Through the Integration of Lifestyle, Alternative, and Conventional Medicine

11:00: Break

11:15: Mid-Morning Stretch

11:20: Dr. Sarah Morrow: Cognition and MS

12:20: Lunch

1:55: Afternoon Exercise Break

2:00: Dr. Alexander Ng: Dancing From or With MS? The Whys and Hows of Exercise for Persons with MS

3:00: Closing Remarks

3:30: Expert Panel

Registration fees: Individual: $20 | Couple: $35 | Family: $60 | Health Care Professional: $60

Speaker Bios:

Allen Clarke Bowling, MD, PhD, is an internationally recognized neurologist with over three decades of clinical and research experience. He has devoted his career to developing and providing rigorous, comprehensive, and compassionate care to those with MS.

Dr. Bowling is Physician Associate at the Colorado Neurological Institute (CNI) and Clinical Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado. He has more than 100 lay and professional publications, including five books on MS. His most recent book is Optimal Health with Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide to Integrating Lifestyle, Alternative, and Conventional Medicine. Dr. Bowling has provided consultation or authored publications for many MS and neurological organizations. He lectures extensively and is actively engaged in the ongoing clinical care of people with MS.

Dr. Bowling is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale, where he also obtained his MS and PhD degrees. He completed his neurology residency training at the University of California-San Francisco and his fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School.

Sarah A. Morrow, MD, is Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at Western University on London, Ontario.

She received her medical degree from the University of Calgary and completed her residency on neurology at the Western University, as well as a clinical Fellowship in MS in London, Ontario. She completed a two-year research Fellowship on Cognition and MS at the Jacobs Neurological Institute in Buffalo, NY, with Dr. Ralph Benedict and received a Master’s Degree in Epidemiology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In addition to working in the MS Clinic at London Health Sciences Centre, she has established the first (and only) MS Cognitive Clinic in Canada.

Her research interests are cognitive impairment in MS, relapses treatment and epidemiology.

Alexander Ng, PhD, FACSM, is an associate professor in the Program in Exercise Science, Department of Physical Therapy at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Ng received his BS in biology from UC Davis, and both his MS and PhD in exercise physiology from the Biodynamics Laboratory at UW Madison. Two post-docs followed: one in autonomic control of the circulation (with Dr. Douglas Seals) and the other with Dr. Jane Kent in muscle fatigue in persons with MS and in older adults. The later, at UCSF (University if California San Francisco) started a 21 year and counting history of MS research with an emphasis on fatigue and exercise in cancer survivors. Most recently, he has begun to move outside his laboratory and into the community to investigate the benefits of recreational and goal oriented physical activity in persons with MS and in cancer survivors.

He assists the Wisconsin chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in its mission and is a program staff member and a consultant for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, a non-profit organization promoting wellness in persons with MS. He was recently inducted (2014) into the National MS Society’s Volunteer Hall of Fame as a Scientific Researcher. In his spare time, Dr. Ng enjoys outdoor recreational activities such as cross-country skiing, cycling, and climbing. He enjoys playing music and dancing, and is an adult learner of the violin – earplugs not included.

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