Patient-Reported Symptoms: Connecting the dots to improve education
AiArthritis Voices 360 Full Episode 44
Air Date: September 6, 2020
This week join your patient host Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, CEO of International Foundation for AiArthritis, as she discusses the mission and future projects of The International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis and the AiArthritis Voices 360 Talk Show.
The mission of AiArthritis is to elevate and center the patient voice in global conversations with all stakeholders about solving problems facing the autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis community. AiArthritis is proud to announce the impending publication of the first ever 100% patient reported symptoms brochure for Stills Disease on September 7th 2020 - Stills Disease Awareness Day. This project could not have been possible without the participation of patients like you who were willing to donate their time and expertise and share their lived experiences.
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Show Notes: Episode 44 - Patient-Reported Symptoms: Connecting the dots to improve education
00:53 - Tiffany welcomes listeners
01:15 - Today’s episode is about how patients sharing their experiences can begin to solve the issues facing the AiArthritis patient community
3:00 - Tiffany shares her diagnosis story
5:00 - Many patients research their symptoms online to try and solve the mystery of what is happening with their body
6:18 - Symptoms recognized by the medical community may not always be consistent with the lived experiences of patients
10:09 - AiArthritis conducted an Early Symptoms Study to identify common patient-reported symptoms of 6 AiArthritis Diseases
11:25 - AiArthritis has a unique process that seeks to solve problems thru ongoing patient conversations
12:57 - One of our projects has been to develop a Stills Disease Pamphlet thru a campaign called “My Stills”
16:06 - The first ever fully patient reported Stills Disease brochures including a comprehensive list of symptoms will be published on September 7, 2020 - Stills Disease Awareness Day
17:38 - AiArthritis plans to repeat this process for all the other AiArthritis patient communities we serve
19:11 - Voices 360 will transition to bimonthly episodes so that the organization can devote more development time to each episode to include as many stakeholders as possible and accomplish as many of our goals as possible
20:18 - All patients and parents of juvenile patients are invited to join our sister site AiArthritis Voices at aiarthritisvoices.org and meet any of the Voices 360 co-hosts or participate in the conversations about our episode topics
20:38 - View all of our projects at aiarthritis.org
22:03 - Tiffany thanks listeners and invites them to get involved in any of our projects by visiting us on the web or all social media platforms @IFAiArthritis
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Your Co-Hosts & Guests: Who is at the table this episode?
Tiffany Westrich-Robertson
Tiffany is the CEO at International Foundation for AiArthritis and uses her professional expertise in mind-mapping and problem solving to help others, like her, who live with AiArthritis diseases work in unison to identify and solve unresolved community issues. For the last several years, she has continued her education in research, including becoming a professional focus group moderator, and translated this experience at our organization to develop award-winning, innovative projects that are taking patient engagement to next levels.
Tiffany has served on several advisory boards, including those to advance patient voices in policy, clinical trials, and precision medicine. In addition to reviewing grants at PCORI and for the Department of Defense, she was the sole patient grant reviewer for the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin diseases from 2015-2018. She currently participates as a Patient Research Partner for OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology), co-leads our organizations' international effort to advance patient voices in rheumatology research (the ACTion Council) and has dedicated her professional career to developing other patients to utilize their voices to impact the future of millions.
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