June 2nd to 9th
MLB promotes ALS awareness

Starting June 2nd Major League Baseball (MLB) honors the legendary Lou Gehrig and takes the opportunity to remind the country that even 86 years after Lou’s famous speech in Yankee Stadium, ALS continues to take lives at the same speed and rate and with the same brutality. Science still has no cure, no meaningful treatment, virtually no understanding of the cause—no answer.

We share this story map by Will Hackney because it wonderfully captures how Lou “turned baseball on its head” and gives easy ways you can help bring ALS to its knees.

Public domain photo uploaded to Flickr by Tullio Saba. For map credits see map photo caption in story map.

Keep the Registry.

Advance the science.

Our mission is to use GIS to improve care, accelerate research, and advocate for the ALS community.

The seed idea for GeoALS came to founder Pat Dolan just after he was diagnosed with ALS in 2016. Up until 2016, Pat had spent 25 years working with GIS in the utility industry—20 of those years with Esri.

  • After Pat’s diagnosis, he wanted to apply his GIS skills to advance the science of ALS. With the help of his friends at Esri, he developed the ALS Geospatial Hub, which is a platform for advocates and researchers to access maps and apps developed for the ALS community.

    Superhuman and tireless ALS Advocate Sandy Morris, whom we devastatingly lost in August 2022, joined forces with Pat in 2021 and brought her team of advocates to support the development of ALS Clinic Advisor and Legislative Viewer. See Sandy’s story on the I Am ALS website.

    This group of GIS professionals and advocates are referred to as the Mappers.

    GeoALS has nearly the same group of Mappers supporting it today.

    In order to sustain this work, Pat founded the nonprofit GeoALS in October 2024. GeoALS is a member of the Esri Nonprofit program, which donated the ArcGIS Platform that powers the ALS Geospatial Hub.

Legislative Viewer, which shows photos of legislators beside a map.
Clinic Locator, which shows a list of states alongside a map of clinics.
Advisor logo, invoking a compass.

  • Advisor-Locator

    Find clinic care based on location using the most complete clinic database in the United States.

    Find an ALS clinic

  • Advisor Dashboard

    Find clinic care based on clinic reviews provided by people with ALS and ALS caregivers.

    See clinic reviews

  • Advisor Survey

    The survey is an eye-gaze friendly questionnaire that lets people living with ALS & their caregivers review their clinic.

    Take the survey

  • Add an ALS Clinic

    Use this form to add a new clinic or a clinic not present in these apps. This form is also in several GeoALS apps.

    Add a clinic