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The organization becomes a tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation under the name Ankylosing Spondylitis Association (ASA).Volunteer, nurse, and spondyloarthritis patient Jane Bruckel is elected the group’s first president.
The group co-sponsors the first AS symposium in the U.S. More than 100 physicians attend the first day of the program, titled “Back Pain: The Unsuspected Cause.” The second day, over 100 patients attend a program titled “AS: A Cause of Back Pain. What it is, what it is not, and how to cope with it.”
