National Organization for Rare Disorders to Honor Two Members of Congress, Patient Advocates and Orphan Product Innovators
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 2:57PM | Sarah NORD to Present Awards at “Portraits of Courage” Celebration on May 8th in Washington, DC
This Thursday,May 8, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (NORD) will be honoring OUR FAMILY and other rare disease patient advocates, Representative Fred Upton and Representative Sherrod Brown and companies that have brought novel new therapies to patients at the “Portraits of Courage Celebration” at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
Our family will be one of the families featured in their “Portraits of Courage” gallery detailing our journey with Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
“Approximately 500 people attend each year, representing a cross-section of the rare disease community – medical clinicians and researchers, patients and patient advocates, and individuals from government, academia and the pharmaceutical industry.”
I will have the opportunity to speak at the event about our life with SMA and Brielle and Brooke will have the huge honor of presenting the NORD award to Representative Upton on behalf of everyone in the rare disease community.
I can’t even describe how PROUD I am to do this and to feel like I am making a difference in the SMA disease.
http://blog.rarediseases.org/portraits-of-courage-gallery/
