August 2, 2007

CSF fibromyalgia center receives major grant
UniHealth funding is a first for the university and for a project involving the medical condition.
By BARBARA GIASONE
The Orange County Register

FULLERTON — The newly opened Fibromyalgia Research and Education Center at Cal State Fullerton has received a $298,102 grant from Unihealth Foundation.

The funding will be spread over two years to provide support for the FAME Project, an acronym for Fibromyalgia Assessment, Management and Education.

The project will focus on developing and implementing a Web-based training program for health care providers on the diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia and overlapping conditions. Also, the grant will be used to increase the number of trained health care providers to treat and care for FM patients and improve delivery of care to those people.

FAME is a partnership launched between CSF and the National Fibromyalgia Association, based in Anaheim. This marks the first time UniHealth, a nonprofit philanthropy, has awarded a grant to CSF – and the first grant from UniHealth for a project involving fibromyalgia.

Jessie Jones, CSF professor and center director, will serve as the principle investigator for the project with help from co-investigators Dana Rutledge of the nursing department, and Lynne Matallana, education director for the CSF center.