John Cooley is the Support Group Co-Facilitator for the Kansas City region along with Patricia Gibson. John, Director of Strategic Sourcing for RSM US LLP and an attorney, formed the Kansas City area group in the Spring of 2019. After John’s younger son who was diagnosed in 2016 and who is affected by DM1, John attended the last two (2) DM conferences with his family and vowed to become educated on DM and share his knowledge and provide a voice for DM patients and their caretakers in the Kansas City region.