The New Zealand LAM Charitable Trust was founded in 1999 by Bronwyn Gray and communicates with nearly 20 women with LAM. The home office is located in Auckland, New Zealand with one full-time employee, a voluntary coordinator and fundraiser and an eight member voluntary trustee group. The LAM Charitable Trust works closely with Scientific Advisor, Professor Merv Merrilees and Medical Advisors, Professor John Kolbe from the University of Auckland along with Dr. Christine Forster.
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LAM-Netherlands was founded in 2010 by Ine van Meijeren and communicates with 60 women with LAM. The headquarters for LAM-Netherlands is in Wijk and Aalburg. The organization is run by four volunteers, when needed, they ask for help from local women with LAM and their families.
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FLAM Association (France Lymphangioléiomyomatose) was founded in July 2001 by Michèle Gonzalves and communicates with approximately 160 patients. The head office is based in Gosselming (Moselle, department 57). The Council has 10 members, all volunteers.
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Alambra, the Brazilian association for Lymphangioleiomyomatosis patients, was founded in 2004 by Simone Garcia Ribeiro and Flávia Patitucci Sobroza. There are currently 120 LAM patients registered in the database of the Clinics Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo.
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LAM Academy is a joint project between the Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, LAM patients and their relatives.
LAM Academy was founded in 2008 by LAM patient Anette von Koch and Medical Advisor Maryam Fathi, MD, PhD, from Karolinska University Hospital. LAM Academy communicates with more than 55 LAM patients. As there are less than 10 million inhabitants in Sweden, around 10 women per million are diagnosed with LAM.
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