b"ContributorsMatt Cavallo is a patient experience speaker, author, and podcaster who motivatesaudiences worldwide with his personal patient experience and genuinestorytelling style. Matt has been named among the Top 10 Social HealthMakersby WCG and his blog was selected as one of Healthlines Top Multiple SclerosisBlogs. Matt is a regular contributor to msfocusmagazine.org.Jennifer and Dan Digmann have lived with MS for more than 30 years.Jennifer was diagnosed in 1997 and has secondary progressive MS, and Dan wasdiagnosed in 2000 with relapsing-remitting MS. They wrote the book DespiteMS, to Spite MS. They are frequent contributors to MS Focus Magazine, andDan is a regular columnist on MSFocusMagazine.org.Joanne Fortunato is a retired computer technology teacher in Venice, Fla.Diagnosed in 2006, she uses technology to cope with the many diculties MScan present. She is a frequent contributor to MS Focus Magazine, using hertechnology education background to help others with MS. Contact Joanne atjfortunato1012@yahoo.com. Darbi Haynes-Lawrence is an associate professor at Western Kentucky Universityin the Child and Family Studies unit. Darbi has multiple sclerosis and uses herexperiences as a researcher and a person living with MS to educate as manypeople as possible about the disease. In the spring of 2015, Darbi and her student,Niah Soult, wrote and illustrated a children's book for MS Focus, A Conversationabout Multiple Sclerosis: Making Sense out of MS.Teri Schreiner is an neuroimmunology specialist and pediatric neurologist atthe University of Colorado and Childrens Hospital Colorado. She sub-specializesin pediatric onset demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system anddirects a multidisciplinary clinic for children with these disorders. She treats adultand pediatric patients at both the Rocky Mountain MS Center at the Universityof Colorado and at Childrens Hospital Colorado. Ben Thrower is the medical director of the Andrew C. Carlos MS Institute atShepherd Center. He previously served as the medical director of the Holy FamilyMultiple Sclerosis Institute in Spokane, Wash. In Spokane, he was the chair of theInland Northwest Chapter of the NMSS. In 2000, he was awarded the NormCohn Hope Chest Award by the National MS Society, recognizing his work withthe MS community. In 2005, he was the first physician inductee into the GeorgiaChapter of the National MS Society Volunteer Hall of Fame. Doctor Thrower hasserved the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation for many years as Senior Medical Advisor.msfocusmagazine.org 8"