Pfaff / Perlman Video Tape

Dr. Sam Pfaff's talk "Tracking Post Polio Syndrome" and Dr. Susan Perlman's talk "State-of-the-Art Approaches to PPS" are available on one video tape.

Dr. Pfaff is a neurobiologist at The Salk Institute and is doing research on the development of motor neurons and how genes trigger stem cells to develop into motor neurons.

He spoke at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA on June 6, 2000. The talk is 53 minutes including questions and answers.

Dr. Perlman is director of the PPS clinic at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center. She spoke in San Diego, CA on June 18, 2000.

Her talk summarizes the March of Dimes Third International Conference on PPS: "Identifying Best Practices in Diagnosis and Care" at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institiute for Rehabilitation, Warm Springs, Georgia (May 19-20, 2000).

The talk is 90 minutes without questions and answers.

The cost is $20.00 including first class postage in the US. The tape is in VHS NTSC format used in the US. Inquire about the availability of PAL format tapes.

Currently, there are no tapes available.  If there is sufficient interest, we will have another batch produced.

For information on how to order, additional postage outside the US or any other questions, please e-mail:

postpolio@cox.net

Please have the subject say "PPS Videos"

Mary Clare and Steve Schlesinger
Post Polio Group of San Diego
sandiego_polio.tripod.com