The mission of the South Carolina Society for Respiratory Care Patient Advocacy Chapter is to provide people with lung disease and their family members support and education; empowering them through enriching their quality of life.
Plans are underway to create a Patient Advocacy Committee. There will be one representative from each support group listed below on the committee. The committee will meet quarterly.
If you are part of a support group that would like to be represented in this Patient Chapter of the SCSRC, please contact Susan Raynor at raynorss@musc.edu.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:
COPD Foundation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
American Thoracic Society
Healthline – COPD
Pleural Mesothelioma Center
http://www.pleuralmesothelioma.com/
Pulmonary Hypertension Association
http://www.phassociation.org
Alpha-1 Association
http://www.alpha1.org/
American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org/
Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Foundation
http://www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org/ipf