Mr Sandeep Chitnis, Honorary National Secretary, MSSI, Mumbai and Mrs Ann Gonsalvez, Founder-Member & Hon. Secretary, Chennai Chapter, were invited to a CME Meeting of Neurologists at Coimbatore, on the 25th June 2025. The meeting was called by the Coimbatore Neurological Society & Coimbatore Academy of Neurology.

The Meeting with over 40 Neurologists and P.G. Students of Neurology, Coimbatore, was to highlight the Rehabilitation Activities of MSSI in general and the Chennai Chapter in particular, which was done by Mrs Ann Gonsalvez through a power point presentation. Mr Sandeep Chitnis spoke about the need to bring more MS Persons within the ambit of MSSI, as also to bring in more needy MS persons, from in & around Coimbatore, who can benefit from the Azim Premje grant to meet there medical and Physiotherapy needs. He appealed to the Neurologists present, the need to make known what MSSI is, and to bring more MS Persons within the fold of MSSI & its activities.

The neurologists were taken aback with all the efforts made by the Chennai Chapter &MSSI Head office in Rehabilitation & applauded the Chapter & Head office, especially the Chairma,n Dr.K.Asokan, Senior Consultant Neurologist & HOD, Sri Ramakrishna Hospital,Coimbatore .Dr.Mar Tintore, MD, PHD, Professor of Neurology, Senior Consultant, Deputy chair, Neurology Department MS Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat), University Hospital vall d’ Heborn, Barcelona, Spain, addressed the Neurologists on Recent Advances in the Management of Multiple Sclerosis .

This was an eye -opener to the Neurologists about the most modern research being conducted by her & her team vide a Power Point Presentation.

A sumptuous dinner brought the meeting to close