Nearly 30 doctors, researchers, residents and staff from the Gregory W. Fulton Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Neuromuscular Disease Center at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix joined the Strike Out ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on August 15 after being challenged by the staff at the ALS Clinic at SUNY. The doctors poured buckets of ice water over their heads and dared the Arizona Diamondbacks, other VIPs and doctors to join the awareness campaign or donate to the Barrow Neurological Foundation for ALS research. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the New York Yankee star was diagnosed with the disease in the 1930s.
The Strike Out ALS Ice Bucket Challenge started in July in Massachusetts with former Boston College baseball player Pete Frates, who hoped to raise awareness after being diagnosed with the disease in 2012. The Gregory W. Fulton ALS and Neuromuscular Disease Center at Barrow Neurological Institute is the state’s only comprehensive ALS center.
The Fulton ALS Center at Barrow was founded to improve both care and research for neuromuscular disorders and offers complete multidisciplinary care within a single center while providing access to advanced clinical trials and promising basic science research. The Fulton ALS Center’s physicians, allied health personnel, and research scientists work with and for patients to deliver the vanguard of therapy for neuromuscular diseases while simultaneously developing the treatments of the future.
