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Brain Aneurysm Foundation
A WORD FROM
The Executive Director
2016 was a year full of accomplishments for the foundation!
We were fortunate to add new board members with diverse backgrounds and individual passions each brings to the table, including our new Board Chairman, John Rogers of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The website was updated and converted to WordPress, a more user-friendly platform. Our day on Capitol Hill was invigorating, with nearly 100 participants. It resulted in the passage of Senate Resolution 438, designating September as National Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month. The foundation continued to increase its level of research funding with a record amount of $ 310,000.
Our awareness and educational initiatives continued by promoting our PSA’ s and documentaries, as well as creating our first ever youth fact sheet. Social media outreach grew tremendously through the various outlets making it possible to connect with a multitude of new people to help spread the awareness of brain aneurysms in an effort to promote early detection and save lives.
So, thank you for your continued support of the mission of the Brain Aneurysm Foundation. YOU are the reason we continue to strive for a world without death or disability from brain aneurysms.
I look forward to OUR achievements in 2017.
Best wishes-
Christine Buckley
The Medical Advisory Board Executive Director
On behalf of the Medical Advisory Board, I congratulate all who have contributed to the success of the foundation in 2016. Your generosity given in so many ways allowed the foundation to award $ 310,000 to 11 different research projects this year! This is a tremendous accomplishment and brings the total funds awarded by the BAF over the past ten years to approximately $ 1.7 million. These funds are critical to improve identification and treatments of unruptured aneurysms and outcomes for all those affected by brain aneurysms, as well as aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and its associated complications, such as vasospasm and stroke.
I look forward to 2017 being an even better year and that through our research, lives will be saved. Thank you all for your support of the Brain Aneurysm Foundation! Christopher S. Ogilvy, MD