Past Events

Dr. David Bell Presented to a Capacity Audience at MEAO's March 6th Event

The MEAO would like to thank Dr. David Bell for his exciting presentation on the latest in XMRV information and to Dr. Alison Bested and Dr. Bell for leading an exciting hour of Questions and Answers about all the latest information on ME/CFS. We packed Women's College Hospital Auditorium with 150 participants. Make sure you become a member so you can find out about our upcoming talks and receive our quarterly newsletters and regular email updates.

MEAO Community Seminar and Interview with lawyer Hugh Scher:

"What Everybody with ME/FM Needs to Know About their Legal Rights".

"In the Fall 2009 Reaching Out Newsletter of the M.E. Association of Ontario, we carried an interview with lawyer Hugh Scher. Hugh answered a number of questions about dealing with workplace and insurance claims when you are disabled with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Fibromyalgia. Then on November 7th, the MEAO sponsored a free Community Seminar entitled "What Everybody with ME/FM Needs to Know About their Legal Rights". More than 75 people attended and the MEAO summarized Hugh's talk in our Winter 2009 newsletter. If you are not already a member, we encourage you to take out a membership and ask us to send you these two exciting newsletters."

News from the Calgary M.E./CFS Conference

Canada held its first national conference on M.E. in the fall of 2008 and the MEAO was there. Here's a short introduction on our participation and there are links to 10 different presentations from that conference so you can read about the latest in medical information, coping with M.E., legal issues and more.

The MEAO would like to congratulate Dr. Eleanor Stein and her team for the excellent work in putting together the M.E. Medical Training workshops on M.E. and arranging the conference on Fatigue and M.E. Maureen MacQuarrie and Christiane Garcia both attended on behalf of The M.E. Association of Ontario and have come back from the conference greatly energized and enthused by the potential for national collaboration and networking for both research and for awareness about M.E./CFS. Maureen reported back that "It was a great opportunity for us as MEAO representatives to meet others from across Canada and from the States - patients, doctors and researchers and to share ideas!" The Public Lecture was the largest gathering devoted to ME/CFS in Canada - at least 250 people were in attendance. The M.E. sessions were complemented by a Research Symposium on Fatiguing Illnesses which was attended by a cross-section of researchers from a range of disciplines.

There are many podcasts from the workshops which are available online (free of charge) at the University of Calgary Medical School's website. Click here to access the podcast.