Our mission is to increase endometriosis awareness, fund landmark research, provide advocacy and support for patients, and educate the public and medical community.
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Endofound Org

The Endometriosis Foundation of America strives to increase disease recognition, provide advocacy, facilitate expert surgical training, and fund landmark endometriosis research. Engaged in a robust campaign to inform both the medical community and the public, the EndoFound places particular emphasis on the critical importance of early diagnosis and effective intervention while simultaneously providing education to the next generation of medical professionals and their patients.

Trying to Have a Baby While Battling Endometriosis: Jillian Heaney's Endo Story

Trying to Have a Baby While Battling Endometriosis: Jillian Heaney's Endo Story

My name is Jillian Heaney. I’m 33 years old, born and raised in Staten Island, New York, and currently living in Philadelphia. My boyfriend and I have been trying to have a baby for more than three years. Endometriosis has prevented that…

My Endometriosis Story: Molly Gun's Endo Story

My Endometriosis Story: Molly Gun's Endo Story

A young girl, twelve, emerges from the theater mid-movie. She’s crying. She can’t take it anymore. She slides down the wall outside, markedly troubled.  We observe scenes like this all the time. In films, they come after the…

My Endometriosis Story Is Still Being Written: Dustie Burke's Endo Story

My Endometriosis Story Is Still Being Written: Dustie Burke's Endo Story

I’m 44 years old, a nurse, and have Stage 4 endometriosis. My story is probably a little different than most. I didn’t get my first menstrual period until I was 16. I became pregnant at 18, dropped out of high school, had my son…

College, COVID, and a Chronic Condition: Living with Endometriosis: Caeli Jojola Endo Story

College, COVID, and a Chronic Condition: Living with Endometriosis: Caeli Jojola Endo Story

In 2014, I went on my seventh-grade field trip to a local science museum. What I thought would be a fun day out of school turned into a disaster. I felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen, so intense that I became nauseous and couldn’t…

Standing Up for Myself and Demanding the Care I Deserve: Heather Rogers Endo Story

Standing Up for Myself and Demanding the Care I Deserve: Heather Rogers Endo Story

I got my first period when I was 13. I was at my dad’s house and yelled from the bathroom for my stepmom. I was sitting on the toilet when she walked in. “I started,” I told her. She opened the cabinet, tossed me a tampon,…

Medical Conference 2023: From Molecular Fingerprints to Multiorgan Complex Surgery

Medical Conference 2023: From Molecular Fingerprints to Multiorgan Complex Surgery

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR Dan Martin, MD., Scientific & Medical Director, Endometriosis Foundation of America (EndoFound) PROGRAM DIRECTOR Tamer Seckin, MD., co-founder of Endometriosis Foundation of America (EndoFound) PLANNING COMMITTEE: Piraye…

Recognition of  endometriosis - Dan Martin MD

Recognition of endometriosis - Dan Martin MD

 Recognition of endometriosis - Dan Martin MD

This month is Endometriosis Awareness Month and Women’s History Month: Niki Hamm's Endo Story

This month is Endometriosis Awareness Month and Women’s History Month: Niki Hamm's Endo Story

This month is Endometriosis Awareness Month and Women’s History Month. With this, the timing couldn’t be better for me to share my story. I have had painful menses for about ten years, with the most prominent pain in my lower back,…

Sat 18 - Opening Remarks - Tamer Seckin, MD

Sat 18 - Opening Remarks - Tamer Seckin, MD

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC Hello everyone. This was a nice prayer of the morning, right? That was good, Lena. Thank you. Leah, thank you so…

Opening Remarks - Tracey Haas, DO

Opening Remarks - Tracey Haas, DO

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC Morning, everybody. Welcome to our 14th Annual Global Patient Symposium. Um, our past three have been virtual,…

What Really *is* Endometriosis? - Karli Provost Goldstein, DO, FACOG

What Really *is* Endometriosis? - Karli Provost Goldstein, DO, FACOG

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC How's everybody doing today? Are you guys okay? Saturday morning, spring is coming today, right? We got 50 degrees,…

What's New in Endometriosis?:  Emerging Facts & Unchanging Truths - Tamer Seckin, MD

What's New in Endometriosis?: Emerging Facts & Unchanging Truths - Tamer Seckin, MD

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC First of all, let me emphasize that there is ate uses as a concept, and truth of the matter is it's a condition…

General Session II - Types of Endometriosis Based on Multi-Organ Involvement

General Session II - Types of Endometriosis Based on Multi-Organ Involvement

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC So I thank them for, uh, willing to basically start the conversation. They're gonna be speaking for you, so, um,…

General Session III - Legal & HR Protections for those with Endometriosis

General Session III - Legal & HR Protections for those with Endometriosis

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC So I thank them for, uh, willing to basically start the conversation. They're gonna be speaking for you, so, um,…

Managing the Social and Emotional Impacts of Endometriosis - Corinne Foxx

Managing the Social and Emotional Impacts of Endometriosis - Corinne Foxx

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC Hello everyone. I know I am amongst endo Warriors because there's a gluten-free table over there, and I was like,…

Emotional Impacts of Endometriosis - Sydney Faith Rose, LMSW, CHHC, ERYT

Emotional Impacts of Endometriosis - Sydney Faith Rose, LMSW, CHHC, ERYT

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC Also have some similar lived experiences. So, um, this is our workshop description. I'm gonna talk you through…

Rachel Gross, Award-Winning Science Journalist and author of Vagina Obscura

Rachel Gross, Award-Winning Science Journalist and author of Vagina Obscura

Endometriosis 2023:Global Patient SymposiumTogether for TomorrowMarch 18-19, 2023 - Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC Hey everyone, how's it going? Uh, let's see this working. Okay, great. Um, thank you for that fantastic introduction…