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Where GIS meets ALS

GeoALS is where GIS meets ALS

GeoALS is a nonprofit founded to tackle ALS by applying location analysis to ALS by:

  • Supporting researchers who study environmental exposures

  • Connecting underserved ALS communities to resources; increasing the number of ALS registry registrants

  • Improving access to clinic care and ALS expertise; shortening time-to-diagnosis

  • 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.

    Since 2016 Pat has taken up offers of help from his Esri friends, and quickly a volunteer group formalized and called themselves The Mappers. Over the years, The Mappers, led by Pat, have worked with partner orgs to create maps and apps that support care access and environmental risk factor research. In order to sustain this work, Pat founded the nonprofit GeoALS in October 2024.

    GeoALS has nearly the same group of Mappers supporting it today. Esri continues to donate its GIS location platform to support this important work.

ALS Clinic Advisor

  • 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

    An eye-gaze friendly questionnaire to let 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

For these and other maps, apps, and data, see ALS Geospatial Hub.