| Name of Society: |
Schweizerische Multiple Sklerose Gesellschaft |
| Address: |
Josefstrasse 129
Postfach
CH-8031 Zürich |
| Tel: |
(41) 43 444 43 43 |
| Fax: |
(41) 43 444 43 44 |
| Email: |
info@multiplesklerose.ch |
| Website: |
click here |
| Established: |
15 September 1959 |
| President: |
Dr Dick F. Marty |
| Chief Executive: |
Vera Rentsch |
| Language: |
German/French/Italian |
| Representative on the Persons with MS International Committee (PwMSIC): |
Daniel Schwab |
| Chair of the National Medical Advisory Board: |
Prof Ludwig Kappos |
| Country representatives on International Medical and Scientific Board: |
Prof Ludwig Kappos
Prof Jürg Kesselring |
| |
Contacts
|
| |
| Fundraising: |
Vera Rentsch |
| Communications: |
Vera Rentsch |
| Services: |
Dr Regine Strittmatter |
| Information: |
Annette Guignard |
| |
Data
|
| |
| Total number of members: |
18,401 |
| Estimated number of people with MS: |
10,000 |
| People with MS known to the society: |
6,000 |
| Full time staff: |
8 |
| Part time staff: |
46 |
| Regular volunteers: |
1,300 |
| |
Society Aims & Objectives:
|
| |
- Provide services which help people with MS to lead independent lives.
- Support MS research in Switzerland.
- Inform the public and people with MS about MS.
- Work with the state, other NPOs and the medical and business sectors to develop coordinated actions to support and assist those affected by MS.
|
| |
