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National Healthcare Organization Hosts Free Educational Webinar Series
Toll-free conference calls and the Internet link participants to the webinars. Nationally recognized experts, in the field of continence care, will lead each webinar followed by a live question and answer session where participants can type questions for the featured healthcare professional to answer. The experts’ specialties lie in urology, urogynecology, nursing, geriatrics, as well as in colon and rectal surgery.
Michelle Morrill, MD, director of urogynecology at Kaiser San Francisco, will lead the next webinar, Function of the Bladder and the Role of Pelvic Support, on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. (EST). To register for this webinar, individuals can log onto NAFC’s Web site at http://www.nafc.org/news/110/318/Function-of-the-Bladder-and-the-Role-of-Pelvic-Support-Webinar/ or call 1-800-BLADDER. This webinar is sponsored by Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals.
Information about future webinars can be found on NAFC’s Web site at http://www.nafc.org/news/111/318/FREE-Educational-Webinar-Schedule/.
About The National Association For Continence
The National Association For Continence is a 501(c)3 corporation whose mission is threefold: 1) to educate the public about the causes, diagnosis categories, treatment options, and management alternatives for incontinence, voiding dysfunction, nocturnal enuresis, and related pelvic floor disorders; 2) to network with other organizations and agencies to elevate the visibility and priority given to these areas; and 3) to advocate on behalf of consumers who suffer from such symptoms as a result of disease or other illness, obstetrical, surgical or other trauma, or deterioration due to the aging process itself. NAFC is broadly funded by consumers, healthcare professionals and industry. It is the world’s largest and most prolific consumer advocacy organization devoted exclusively to this field.
National Association For Continence (NAFC)
PO Box 1019
Charleston, SC 29402
1-800-252-3337
Allison Wilfong
Media Relations and Communications Associate
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