Retired Manufacturer's Representative
Ted is an electrical engineer who started his career in the
aerospace industry. Later he went from engineering to sales,
marketing and then marketing management. In 1980 Ted and his family
moved to Utah to start a small independent manufacturer's
representative company. He was President and Chairman of the Board
of that company until 1999 and is currently retired.
Ted's interest in OFFER is fueled by the CFS that one of his sons
has had for over a decade. One of Ted's three children was working
on his Ph.D. when he came down with CFS. As a result of the illness,
his son has been unable to complete his studies and fulfill his
lifelong goal to become a college professor.
Ted has had long standing concern with the lack of awareness of
the seriousness and frequency of this illness within the medical
community, various government entities and the general public. He
has also been disappointed with the significant lack of basic
research toward determining both a cause and a cure for CFS, which
afflicts roughly 4 million people in the United States. The minimal
private and government research funding, currently less than $12
million annually, doesn't seem appropriate to Ted for an illness
that is estimated to cost our economy as much as a staggering $24
billion annually. He hopes that OFFER will continue to raise
awareness of this illness at all levels, provide advocacy for those
suffering from it, and promote and fund appropriate research efforts
toward effective diagnosis and new treatments targeted at causes as
well as symptoms. Most of all, Ted wants OFFER to provide hope for
those afflicted with this debilitating, currently "incurable"
illness.
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