ALS Center of Excellence

StrikoutALS Returns May 17 Against Michigan State

shoshanna — Tue, 03 May 2022 17:15:49 +0000

courtesy of Michigan Baseball

Come join Michigan Baseball and Michigan Medicine’s ALS Center of Excellence as StrikeOut ALS returns to the diamond at 6 PM on May 17. You don’t want to miss Pranger ALS Clinic Director, Dr. Stephen Goutman throwing out the first pitch of the in-state rivalry game against the Michigan State Spartans.

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Michigan Baseball’s coaching staff has been significantly impacted by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. U-M Head Coach Erik Bakich and U-M Assistant Head Coach Nick Schnabel both played for East Carolina University during the 1999 and 2000 seasons under the direction of Head Coach Keith LeClair. In 2001, LeClair was diagnosed with ALS and he passed away in 2006. To honor their coach’s memory, both Bakich and Schnabel wear the number 23 jersey at U-M.

Team Pranger Competes in Active Against ALS Box Car Derby

shoshanna — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:28:22 +0000

Staff from the Pranger ALS Clinic at Michigan Medicine teamed up to join Active Against ALS for their Annual Box Car Derby.

Dr. Feldman Featured on WDIV NBC News in Detroit

shoshanna — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:54:22 +0000

Michigan native and U.S. veteran Melissa Siebert was diagnosed with ALS in early February. One item on her bucket list is to raise awareness about ALS and the fact that veterans have two times the prevalence of the disease. Dr. Eva Feldman and NBC WDIV joined together to fulfill this wish.

The story from clickondetroit.com:

Veteran diagnosed with ALS raises thousands for bucket list, medical research

Melissa Siebert is the mother of 2 young children

DETROIT – Michigan native and U.S. veteran Melissa Siebert was diagnosed with ALS early February.

“To hear that when you’re 41 years old, is crushing,” said Siebert. “The neurologist even cried telling me because I was the fifth person that he had diagnosed in 10 days.

Siebert served in Afghanistan and went to a VA hospital in Virginia where she lives meaning those four other patients her neurologist diagnosed were also veterans.

Dr. Eva Feldman, University of Michigan professor of neurology and director of its ALS Center of Excellence said veterans are at a higher risk.

“The average risk is somewhere between two and three fold higher if you have served in the military, versus if you have not served in the military, in developing ALS and there’s a particularly high peak in Gulf War veterans,” Feldman said.

Multiple studies have been done to find out why.

“They are exposed to pollutants, to air pollution to pesticides, more than an individual who’s not necessarily in the military and we believe that is strongly driving ALS risk,” said Feldman.