Chronic Disease Awareness Day at the Capitol 2015

Early in the morning of March 5, 2015, advocates, friends, family and leaders gathered in the Old Supreme Court Chambers at the Colorado State Capitol building for “Chronic Disease Awareness Day at the Capitol.”  Featured speakers were:

1. Carrie Nolan, President of the CO-WY Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
2. Candace DeMatteis, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease.
3. Dr. Adam Atherly, University of Colorado School of Public Health.
4. Lonnie and Jan McIntrosh, Colorado Chapter – Alzheimer’s Association.
5. Connie Carpenter Phinney of the Davis Phinney Foundation and an Olympic Champion.

(L to R) State Senator Linda Newell, Kirk P. Williams ~ MS Advocate, Carrie Nolan ~ NMSS Chapter President, in the Senate Chambers of the Colorado State Capitol building during Chronic Disease Awareness Day at the Capitol, 2015.

The attendees then gathered in the Senate Chambers where State Senator Linda Newell (State Senate District 26) made a tribute to Chronic Disease organizations and sufferers.

Chronic Care Collaborative member organizations:

• Alzheimer’s Association, Colorado Chapter
• American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
• American Diabetes Association
• American Heart Association
• American Liver Foundation- Rocky Mountain Division
• American Lung Association of Colorado
• Arthritis Foundation Rocky Mountain Chapter
• Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado
• Can Do Multiple Sclerosis
• Colorado AIDS Project
• Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved
• Colorado Gerontological Society
• Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance
• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, Rocky Mountain Chapter
• Easter Seals Colorado
• Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado
• Hep C Connection
• Huntington’s Disease Society of America, Rocky Mountain Chapter
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter
• Lupus Foundation of Colorado
• March of Dimes, Colorado Chapter
• Mental Health America of Colorado
• Muscular Dystrophy Association
• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Colorado
• National Hemophilia Foundation, Colorado Chapter
• National Kidney Foundation of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming
• National MS Society, Colorado-Wyoming Chapter
• Parkinson Association of the Rockies
• THRIVE: The Persons Living with HIV/AIDS Initiative of Colorado
• Rocky Mountain MS Center
• Rocky Mountain Stroke Center