The Vasculitis Foundation (VF) is the only international organization for patients with multiple types of autoimmune related vasculitis. Founded in 1986, VF provides patients and family members with practical information and coping strategies to live successfully with vasculitis.

Mission: The Vasculitis Foundation supports and empowers patients through education, awareness and research.

The Vasculitis Foundation represents a family of rare diseases known as vasculitis. If you are a patient with vasculitis, or a caregiver or friend of someone with vasculitis, you should learn more about vasculitis by visit their website and join today. 

You will not regret it. There are multiple benefits to joining, one of the best is the monthly newsletter which will alert you to breaking news about vasculitis treatments and stories about other patients. If you reach out, then you will come to understand that you are not alone.

The site you are reading also has a reprint of a Vasculitis Foundation Fact Sheet created by the VF.

The Central NM Chapter was founded in June 2008. This chapter exists as a partner with the international Vasculitis Foundation, as well as with The Churg Strauss Syndrome Association (CSSA), and any other vasculitis advocacy group, to spread awareness about autoimmune related vasculitis, and to provide local support to the patients and caregivers in New Mexico. All members of the Vasculitis Foundation who also live in New Mexico, automatically become members of this chapter.

There are a number of other support organizations you will find mentioned in these pages for specific types of vasculitis, and other conditions that can be related to vasculitis.

This chapter is new, and this site will continue to grow. The blog will grow. The calendar will grow. The resources will grow. You may even grow!

The point is, we will post information about local VF events, and we will link you to more information about vasculitis. See the CNMVF Blog for the most recent updates.

If you do not live in central NM, but do live in New Mexico, you may also participate, but please be aware we may not be able to schedule meetings in your town. Perhaps you would like to host a meeting? Contact the Vasculitis Foundation for more information, or Email Joseph Carpenter.

So, the purpose and intent of this web site is to be the place to get information about the Central NM Chapter of the Vasculitis Foundation. Whatever else this chapter will do online, it will link off of this site.

For the latest news, and tons of other stuff, see our CNMVF Blog.

To learn about vasculitis, see our Education page. It is full of links to good information.

What follows next on this page is a very important effort that needs your help. We are working to identify the good doctors who know how to diagnose and treat vasculitis in New Mexico. 

Please share what you know in the interest of helping out new patients like you are, or once were. 

NM Vasculitis Doctors List

To help others like yourself, please go now to the NM Vasculitis Doctors Form. We are collecting the names and contact information for doctors in NM who are already familiar with vasculitis. Even if you are not in NM, please fill in the form. Here is why I think you should... 

I am advocating this list of Vasculitis Doctors as a sort of directory or registry that can be maintained for the benefit of all vasculitis patients. At its most simple, it is nothing more than a contact list so people can reach out to a new doctor when they need one, and have some idea that these doctors will know what they are talking about. What makes this list special is that unlike the phone book, the names on this list will come from existing patients.

It has already proven useful as, thanks to you, I have been able to refer a few patients to doctors we know can handle the treatment of vasculitis. Imagine not knowing where to turn, then suddenly having someone show you the way. That is what this project is all about.

I will share this list with others like it at the national and international level, and then see that our portion is updated annually. 

Imagine having this kind of resource available when you travel. Ask yourself, "Where is the nearest qualified doctor to the place I am visiting?" Or, "What hospitals there can deal with my symptoms if an emergency arises?" These are real world situational problems you can help solve, and it starts with you filling in the NM Vasculitis Doctors form.  Please, go fill in the NM Vasculitis Doctors Form now.

Thanks!