Time is spent sharing my story at many health, antimicrobial, laboratory science, and pharma conferences; students, hospitals, and churches or any groups that have an interest in acquired infections or sepsis in a healthcare setting. Sponsors have found the patient experience is key for awareness of the global Antibiotic Resistance problem as well as motivation for research and prevention…..
~ Asheboro High School – Healthcare Occupations Science Academy
~ Randolph Hospital Support Staff Symposium (Sepsis lecture)
~ Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance
~ Healthcare Surfaces Summit 2017 (Keynote speaker)
~ Infectious Diseases Society of America (Keynote speaker)
~ IDWeek 2017
~ T2 Biosystems (global sales team)
~ World AMR Conference 2018, 2019 and 2020
~ GenMark Diagnostics global team meeting 2019
~ Shionogi Pharma – Company meeting 2019
~ Locus Biosciences – Research conference RTP 2019
~ Pfizer – Latin American Conference 2019
~ Pfizer Middle East region- Dubai 2019
~ Our Lady of the Lake Hospital 2019 – Sepsis Lecture for Nursing CEU’s
~ Pew Health Washington D.C. Congressional visits 2019
~ MAD ID 2020 – Raising Awareness off Sepsis /CEU course
~ United Nations NY AMR Stakeholders Meeting (virtual) 2021
~ Pfizer UK patient story video for World Sepsis Day 2021
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Podcast interview on Outbreak News Today radio program, ” What is Sepsis”?
Podcast interview on Empowered Patient Forum
“The Importance of Patient Advocacy”
Podcast with host Karen Jagoda
I have written blog articles for:
Longitude Prize
“How Septic Shock Can Change Your Life”
Clean Hands-Safe Hands
“The Real Cost of HAI’s- The Patients”
I was the feature article in the Infectious Diseases Society of America “Faces of Antimicrobial Resistance”