OUR
MISSION
Realising that much of the current attention is focused on more widely known diseases. Multiple System Atrophy is overlooked. MSA patients are confronted with a dim prognosis and left with few options. Defeat Multiple System Atrophy Australia is an inclusive organisation that seeks to serve all people with MSA and their carers in Australia. It aspires to balance efforts to support patients, educate medical professionals, raise public awareness, and nurture promising research. Staffed entirely by a group of volunteers, Defeat MSA Down Under aims to achieve a four-fold mission:
1) To build a community that truly serves those that suffer from MSA.
2) To cultivate promising research into treatments and slowing MSA.
3) To nurture better education of health professionals about MSA.
4) To raise greater public awareness about living with MSA.
5) To advocate for the community that is impacted by MSA.
Defeat MSA Down Under invites all other like-minded individuals around the world to join us in this noble fight: to speak for those who cannot, with one mind, one heart and one voice: to Defeat MSA forever!
OURĀ
APPROACH
OUR PROMISE
WeĀ promiseĀ to work towards raisingĀ awareness within the medical profession and in society about Multiple System Atrophy and the everyday challenges faced by people living with it. WeĀ promiseĀ to help create a network of support for patients living with Multiple System Atrophy and their carers. WeĀ promiseĀ to foster a free and open dialogue that serves to advance scientific research. WeĀ promiseĀ to conductĀ ourĀ activities with the highest of professional ethics, organizational integrity and financial transparency. With confidence, and together with other like-minded charities, we will build a coalition of patients, carers, researchers, donors and policy-makers in an effort to pursueĀ ourĀ common cause ā to win the battle and foreverĀ defeatĀ Multiple System Atrophy.
#KickMSAĀ Ā Ā #DefeatMSAĀ Ā Ā #MSAdownunder #MSAawarenessĀ Ā Ā #WeRememberMSAĀ
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS

Philip Fortier
Chair/President & Director, Board of Directors; MSA United Consortium Leaders CouncilPhilosophy Faculty, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, USA

Cherie Miller
Teasurer/Secretary & Director, Board of DirectorsPrincipal Consultant, Trainer, Patria Consulting Pty Ltd,; Moranbah, Queensland

Olivia Romano
Vice-Chair/Vice-President & Director; Board of Directors, MSA United Consortium Leaders Council (Pictured with her loving father - RIP)Melbourne, Victoria

Andy Macindoe
Media Advisor, Director, Board of DirectorsOwner & Filmmaker, Macindoe Media Melbourne, Victoria

Ross McLennan, PhD
Research Director, Director, Board of Directors; MSA United Consortium Global Research Committee, MSA United Consortium Leaders CouncilExecutive Director, Research Services Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales
In Honor of All Our
MSA Warriors
Dedicated to Family Members of Our Board Members

George Nicolaidis (14.2.1949 – 12.10.2016)
Forever In Our Loving Memory

James Leslie Williamson ‘Jimmy’ (6.2.1949 ā 6.2.2016)
Forever In Our Loving Memory
*All board members and research advisors are volunteers.Ā Defeat MSA Down Under has no paid staff or contractual employees and each board member is passionately driven by their personal or family connection to the disease.
BOARD OF
ADVISORS

Joshua Lee Calvert
Emeritus Director, Founding Director; MSA Patient Advocate/AU RepresentativePort Kembla, New South Wales

Jacqui Simpson
Healthcare & Business AdvisorAuckland, New Zealand

Rev’d Stephen Donald
MSA Patient Advocate/NZ RepresentativeGisborne, New Zealand
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