Clear Passage® affiliation:
- Founder, Endometriosis Association
Biography, posts:
Mary Lou Ballweg is the founder, president, and executive director of the Endometriosis Association, the first organization in the world devoted to endometriosis. She founded that organization in 1980.
Credited with “putting endometriosis on the map,” she has overseen the development of extensive resources for patients, clinicians, and scientists, including four books, multimillion-dollar awareness campaigns, Endometriosis Awareness Month, worldwide affiliates, and literature in 31 languages.
With Karen Lamb, Ph.D., she established the first research registry in the world on endometriosis, now maintained at the NIH, where Mary Lou collaborates on studies.
In 1992, she discovered a major causal link in endometriosis – namely, dioxin-research replicated and expanded upon worldwide. She has created research partnerships with the NIH and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine andhas been instrumental in raising more than $27 million for research.
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