WPI Announces New Spokesperson - Dr. Donnica Moore
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 8, 2010
Contact:
Angelina Wyss Gordon
Director of Development
775-722-1215
angelinawg@wpinstitute.org
Whittemore Peterson Institute Announces Renowned Health Expert as New Spokesperson
-Dr. Donnica Moore joins the institute as spokesperson and advocate-
Reno, Nev. The Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI) has recently
announced Dr. Donnica Moore, a distinguished womens health expert, as its new celebrity
spokesperson and advocate. Dr. Moore will join WPI in its efforts to help raise awareness and funding
for its research of XMRV and associated neuro-immune diseases, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
We are pleased to have a highly regarded womens health expert join us in our efforts to bring more
attention to neuroimmune diseases, said Annette Whittemore, founder of the Whittemore Peterson
Institute. Dr. Donnica Moore is an incredible advocate for these patients. Her experience and support
will be huge assets to the WPI and patients around the world, as we seek to raise awareness and
additional funding in this field of medicine.
A graduate from Princeton University and the State University of New York School of Medicine at
Buffalo, Dr. Moore is a womens health expert who has received numerous awards for her health
communications and advocacy. Widely known as Dr. Donnica, she has appeared on over 650 national
television shows, including Good Morning America, The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and
Weekend Today Show. Recently, Dr. Donnica has been credited for her involvement with CFS/ME
research and related advocacy efforts. Dr. Donnica is the mother of two teenage children, one of whom
has suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) for more than five
years.
I am grateful to have such an opportunity to further advocate on behalf of the WPIs search for more
effective treatments, said Dr. Donnica Moore, womens health expert and spokesperson for WPI. I
am fully committed to supporting WPI in its efforts to help millions of patients worldwide, like my son
Brian, who suffer from the debilitating effects of CFS/ME and those with related neuro-immune
diseases.
WPI is set to open its new medical facility at the University of Nevada School of Medicine campus in
September 2010 and plan to welcome its first patients soon after. To learn more about the institute and
ongoing research, please visit
www.wpinstitute.org.
Located within the University of Nevada School of Medicines Center for Molecular Medicine, the Whittemore
Peterson Institute will be the nations first comprehensive translational research facility dedicated to the research
and treatment of neuro-immune diseases when it opens September of 2010.