Our event was so successful that we have been able to secure repeat sponsorship for the 2001 event, which we will be holding in Washington, DC this April. We are almost exclusively web based. We were approved with internet board meetings and email voting forming a part of our organizing documents. We have provided information to countless people, patients, doctors and public health alike, through our website and email response program. We have offered support services using volunteers from anywhere in the country supporting patients on treatment who could be located anywhere else in the country.
Some patients use computers in their local libraries to communicate with their mentors.
We have offered what would otherwise be millions in service provision for almost nothing using the internet. Inc. Baltimore, Maryland Interplast currently partners with surgeons in Nepal, Peru, Ecuador, India, Bangladesh, and Zambia who manage their own outreach programs. We harness the power of the Internet to facilitate quality assurance management and medical consultations and communications. Because Lowe syndrome is a rare condition, the members of our organization are spread out all over the United States and over a dozen other countries. When we started the LSA 18 years ago, we depended upon phone and mail as our primary means of communication.