LESLEY A. BRABYN
Note: This Lesley Brabyn may be the same person as Lesley Brabyn of the Asthma Foundation as both come from the San Francisco area
Ms. Lesley A.
Brabyn
533 Pine Crest Rd.
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-381-2534
FAX: 415-383-6079
Ms. Brabyn began showing dogs in 1965 and Salukis in 1967. She has owned or bred 30 Saluki champions and/or title holders including numerous Specialty, Breed and Group winners under the Timaru prefix. Dedicated to the concept of the multi-faceted hound, she is active in conformation, open field coursing, lure coursing and obedience. She has seved on the Boards and Committees of the Saluki Club of America, the American Saluki Association and Saluki Club of Greater San Fransisco and written regular columns for US and English Saluki publications. In her "other life" she is the founder and Executive Director of a heath-related nonprofit organization in northern California.
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Pleasanton |
CA |
10/22/00 |
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Ridgefield |
WA |
10/06/01 |
Salukis |
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Houston |
TX |
03/15/02 |
Salukis |
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Lompoc |
CA |
07/27/02 |
Salukis |
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Virginia Beach |
VA |
11/03/02 |
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Vero Beach |
FL |
04/27/03 |
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http://www.infodog.com/judges/7638/juddat.htm
Note: The association of this next item with Lesley A. Brabyn has not been
positively established, but both come from the San Francisco area
Fifteen years
ago, Lesley Brabyn’s two-year-old child was admitted to the emergency room with
a life-threatening asthma attack. Doctors immediately began prescribing
adrenaline-like drugs. The medication allowed her son to breathe but had
extreme side effects, including an inability to sleep or concentrate. As he
grew older, the drugs made it almost impossible for him to attend preschool.
Out of
desperation, Brabyn began to educate herself and learned about other effective
ways to prevent asthma attacks. “Doctors weren’t telling us about prevention,
they were just prescribing drugs!” she says.
So Brabyn and
other parents started the Asthma Support Group of Marin, now the Asthma
Education & Resource Council. Braybn and two part-time nurses provide
training and information about the prevention and treatment of asthma to
asthmatics, parents, child care providers, and health professionals.
Deborah Logan,
president of the Marin Family Child Care Association, says, “The training has
been great because when the state mandated providers to administer nebulizers,
they didn’t provide any training.” This training “removes fear from providers.”
Now, with a Prop.
10 grant, the Council can offer any parent with a child under five an
individualized session with a nurse to discuss asthma prevention and
management. “Parents often leave medical establishments with medications they
don’t know how to use,” says Brabyn.
And with funds from Prop. 10 and donations from pharmaceutical companies, the Council has also been able to make medications more affordable to low-income families.
http://www.4children.org/news/pr10mari.htm
Prepared by Bob Dalrymple, PO Box 122, Dapto, NSW Australia 2350
eMail: bob@relativelyyours.com