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The Garden State Chapter (GSC)
The Garden State Chapter's mission is to assist MG patients, provide information and education to medical professionals, and promote public awareness and fund mg research.
Our chapter was organized in 1972 at Englewood Hospital as the Northern New Jersey Chapter. From a very small, but dedicated group of volunteers who helped less than forty myasthenia's living in the seven northern counties of New Jersey. We have grown to the point where, since 1980 being assigned the responsibility for the whole state, our volunteers serve over 1500 patients in the State of New Jersey.
About MG
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Myasthenia Gravis(MG)
In 1890, German medical professor Wilhelm Erb and two of his colleagues gave the name myasthenia gravis to a neuromuscular disease which had previously been reported by more than one physician. All three physicians noted that the "grave muscular weakness" -- whether it affected the eye muscles first, or created difficulty in talking, chewing and swallowing, or in using the arms and legs -- was neither hereditary nor contagious.
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Garden State Chapter
P.O. Box 4258
Wayne, N.J. 07474
Phone: (800) 437-4949 in N.J. Only
Phone: (973) 633-6900
Fax: (973) 633-6908
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Web: http://www.mgmj.org
News Flash: Latest
Thymectomy Trial
Department of Neurology
Do you have Myasthenia Gravis?
Dr. Jerry Belsh, Principal Investigator, is looking for volunteers to take part in a multicenter
international trial entitled "Thymectomy Trial in Non-Thymomatous Myasthenia
Gravis Patients Receiving Prednisone Therapy."
If you:
• Are between 18 and 65 years of age
• Have had myasthenia gravis for less than 5 years
• Have symptoms ofMG not limited to the eyes
• Have not had a thymectomy
You may be eligible to participate in this trial. For additional information, call the nurse
coordinator for the Neuromuscular Center, Mary Ann Mertz, RN, at 732-235-7331.
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Lisa Gigliotti, J.D.
GARDEN STATE CHAPTER
Inspirational!
Lisa Gigliotti, J.D.
We are fortunate to have had Lisa Gigliotti, J.D. speak at our annual meeting in 2011. She talked about the Old World principles that have helped her to live a fulfilling life, in spite of the treatments and MG crisis cycles that she has endured. She has achieved a successful career as an administrative law judge, and has served as a policy advisor for the Michigan state senate and governor. An advocate for people with disabilities, Lisa will share ”her story” with excerpts from her book “Coraggio! Lessons For Living from an Italian Grandmother: Despite Illness, Pain and Loss”. Check out her Website at http://withcourageican.com .
For additional information on purchasing her book or view her video click on the following link:
Coraggio! Lessons for Living from an Italian Grandmother
Despite Illness, Pain, and Loss
or email Lisa at
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MGNJ Walk-A-Thon
Saturday, May , 2012 beginning at 10:00 AM ~ registration begins at 9:45 AM
in the parking lot of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. This approximate 3-mile walk around Packanack Lake will help create awareness and raise funds for research, patient services, public education and information in the fight against Myasthenia Gravis.
