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Dawn Hogan is a certified Life Coach who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 10 years ago. Through life coaching, Dawn found the tools to empower herself and keep motivated to “LIVE” each day with fibromyalgia. Currently, she holds free monthly Fibromyalgia Life Empowerment Telecalls with 'members' from all over the U.S.

Dr. John Fry, psychologist, NFA board member and husband/caregiver to wife Elizabeth, who has fibromyalgia, will be the featured guest on this Friday’s podcast, May 7 starting at 12 pm Pacific. Dr. Fry will discuss “Fibromyalgia and the Caregiver,” including the challenges of being a caregiver, advice to other caregivers and patients without a caregiver.

Join us on Friday, April 30 at 12 pm Pacific as we chat with Walk of FAME Team leaders: Alicia “Bug” McConnell from California whose team “The Little Bug that Could” will be walking on May 15 at Cal State Fullerton; Destiny Thomas from Georgia Southern University and My Sisters Keeper will be hosting their event on May 1; and Allizon Munoz whose fellow students at Ohio Dominican University just finished their Awareness Day event last April 24.

Dr. Rosenfeld is Board Certified in Neurology and Sleep Medicine and is the Medical Director for Sleepmed of Santa Barbara. He has published numerous medical articles on topics in Sleep Medicine and Sleep Electrophysiology. He is a frequent medical lecturer on a broad range of disease states including Sleep Apnea, Restless Legs, Narcolepsy, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s, Epilepsy, Neuro-virology, and Migraine. His current research interest is in Chronic Pain and Fatigue and its relationship to sleep.

We will also be speaking with Sue Ingebretson, author of the new book, "FibroWHYalgia."

Both Dr. Rosenfeld and Ms. Ingebretson will be speaking at the National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day event on May 15, 2010 at Cal State Fullerton.

Lynne Matallana, president and founder of the National Fibromyalgia Association, will talk about how to "Make Fibromyalgia Visible," the NFA's theme for this year's National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, commemorated on May 12.

Lynne Matallana, president and founder of the National Fibromyalgia Association, will talk about how to "Make Fibromyalgia Visible," the NFA's theme for this year's National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, commemorated on May 12.

Joining Lynne is Professor Jessie Jones, co-director of the Fibromyalgia Research and Education Center at California State University, Fullerton, which is also co-sponsoring National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day "Walk of FAME" with the NFA on May 15 at the campus.

On-site coverage with the National Fibromyalgia Association in Sacramento. Lynne Matallana, president and founder of the NFA and Team California Capitol with feature a presentation and "Lights of Hope" candlelight observance on the steps of the Capitol building.

This is the NFA's 4th in a series on National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Today's guests include Stephen Doogan, founder of WeAreFibro.org andSharon Waldrop, founder of Fibromyalgia Association of Michigan.

"Advocating for Fibromyalgia Awareness," Interview with Jessie Jones, Professor at Cal State Fullerton and Randy Wold, Founder, Purple Reign Racing. As persons with fibromyalgia, Jessie and Randy will discuss some of the ways they have raised awareneness of fibromyalgia - in some very unusual ways!

Raising fibromyalgia awareness using social media. Interview with Kelley Fox, NFA's social media guru; Amanda Phelps, founder of Fibromyalgia Awareness Facebook group, and Melissa Talwar, founder of NFA's MySpace page.