Join us for Community Offerings

Book Club

Join us every other month in 2025 for book club meetings with the John A. Schafer, MD Multiple Sclerosis Achievement Center. Read/listen to all or a portion of the book and connect with others in the MS community to discuss or just listen in! The meetings will be held virtually via Zoom.

Book Club is free and open to members and non-members of the John A. Schafer, MD Multiple Sclerosis Achievement Center.

• Monday, April 7th, 1-2pm = The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies, by Kate McKinnon
• Monday, June 2nd, 1-2pm = The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
• Monday, August 4th, 1-2pm = Horse, by Geraldine Brooks
• Monday, October 6th, 1-2pm = The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
• ***Monday, December 1st, 11a-12p = The Women, by Kristin Hannah

Contact us to be added to the invite list and for details of our next Book Club meeting!

To register, contact: 916.453.7966 or [email protected]

*** Please note the time difference of December’s meeting

Building a Strong Partnership With Your Healthcare Team

Rosalind Kalb, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in MS care and education for more than 40 years. After receiving her doctorate from Fordham University in 1977, she began her career in MS at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the country’s first university-based comprehensive MS care center, where she provided individual, group, and family psychotherapy as well as cognitive assessments and remediation. She joined the National MS Society in 2000, where she created online resources and educational materials for individuals and families living with MS and healthcare professionals and currently serves as Senior Programs Consultant for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, helping to develop and implement health and wellness programs for the MS community. She has published numerous books for lay audiences, including two editions of Multiple Sclerosis for Dummies (with a third on the way), and published articles in professional journals on topics including exercise recommendations for people with MS across the disease spectrum, the importance of cognitive screening for individuals with MS, and depression and suicide risk in MS.

Monday, March 31, 2025
11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

• Registration is required to receive a ZOOM link.
• To register:  916.453.7966 or [email protected]

MS Education Summit

BUILDING YOUR MEDICAL COMMUNITY

Saturday, March 22, 2025
9:00 am - 1:30 pm (PST)

Mercy Physicians Plaza - Lukens Auditorium
6555 Coyle Avenue
Suite 150
Carmichael, CA 95608

• Registration is required and space is limited.  
• Please register by March 10, 2025
  
• A light lunch will be provided.
• To register:  916.453.7966 or [email protected]

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Save the Dates

HEADACHE MANAGEMENT & MS

May 13, 2025
Mercy Physicians Plaza - Lukens Auditorium

VISION & MS

July 22, 2025
Mercy Medical Group - Midtown (6th Floor)

BLADDER & MS

September 16, 2025
Mercy Medical Group - Midtown (6th Floor)

Writing as Healing

Have you ever considered expressive writing as a form of healing? Writing has been proven to have a positive, healing effect, and we are pleased to welcome John Crandall, author, educator, and artist, to facilitate this free writing workshop. Join us virtually to experience a creative, artistic, and confidential form of sharing the written voice.

Writing As Healing is open to members and non-members of the John A. Schafer, MD Multiple Sclerosis Achievement Center.

Every 2nd Monday of the month
1:00 - 3:00 PM (PST)

• Registration is required to receive a ZOOM link.
• To register:  916.453.7966 or [email protected]