Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis, 2nd Edition

Kathleen Costello, ANP-BC, MSCN

Kathleen Costello, ANP-BC, MSCN, is the Chief Operating Officer for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, an organization dedicated to delivering health and wellness education for families living with MS. She also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Costello earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science degrees from the University of Maryland. She is a Board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner and is also certified as an MS nurse. She specialized in MS care for over 25 years in academic comprehensive care centers as a nurse and nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University MS Centers.

She is a past president of the International Organization of MS Nurses and previously chaired the MS Specialist Certification Committee for the Consortium of MS Centers. She has collaborated with the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation on efforts to add MS medications to the World Health Organization essential medicines list and has written and lectured extensively on MS and MS care.

Rosalind Kalb, PhD

Rosalind Kalb, PhD, is the Senior Programs Consultant for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis. She is a clinical psychologist who has been providing MS care and education for over 40 years. After receiving her doctorate from Fordham University in New York, she provided mental health services and cognitive remediation at the Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for MS at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and later at the MS Comprehensive Care Center in White Plains, NY.

Dr. Kalb joined the National MS Society in 2000, where she developed online resources and educational materials for individuals and families living with MS and for healthcare professionals until 2017.

Barbara S. Giesser, MD, FAAN, FANA

Barbara S. Giesser, MD, FAAN, FANA, is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Neurology at the David Geffan UCLA School of Medicine and currently leads the MS program at Pacific Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, CA. She is an internationally recognized clinician and award-winning educator who has specialized in the care of persons with Multiple Sclerosis for over 40 years.

Dr. Giesser received her BS from the University of Miami, her MS from the University of Texas School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston, and her MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed her neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and pursued fellowship training in MS there at the Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for MS. She was faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1983 to 1991, subsequently served as faculty at the University of Arizona Health Science Center, and joined UCLA in 2002.

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