Mary Beth Clark

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Mary Beth Clark - Director

Mary Beth lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was the founder and leader of the Atlantic Scleroderma Support Group from 1992 -1996. She planned, organized and conducted monthly meetings with a focus on patient education and advocacy, and on social and emotional support. Mary Beth regularly visited hospitlized individuals and provided one-on-one counselling. She liasoned with professionals in the Dalhousie University Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Dental Hygiene and Physiotherapy and was involved in a variety of scleroderma related projects with these groups.

Mary Beth has been active on a number of other boards and committees in the Halifax area over the years. She served on the Canadian Cancer Society board for about five years, two years as the Chairperson of the Education Committee, and two years as a regular education committee volunteer. Mary Beth has also worked as a volunteer counsellor and group leader in the patient emotional support group, "Living with Cancer". She has done volunteer work with the Arthritis Society, Nova Scotia Liver Foundation and the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Mary Beth has an interest in environmental illness as related to scleroderma and scleroderma-like diseases. She promotes stress management, patient emotional support, comfort therapy, therapeutic recreation, wellness and a healthy lifestyle as powerful healing aids for people living with a chronic illness. Mary Beth possesses a B. Recreation degree, a B.SC. Foods and Nutrition degree, a Masters of Education degree and a Post Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy.