Patient advocate and founder of The Sumaira Foundation, Sumaira Ahmed, discusses her personal journey to diagnosis and how that inspired her to create a foundation to help others facing this life changing condition.
As a second-generation Bengali-Burmese Muslim woman, Sumaira asks host Lelainia Lloyd, what if her parents hadn’t emigrated to the US and she had received her NMO diagnosis in a developing part of the world - what would have happened to her?
It was this realisation which motivated the international expansion of her foundation. Sumaira describes her determination as a patient advocate, in trying to bring multi-language resources to NMOSD patients in every corner of the world.
Episode 2: Sumaira Ahmed
(patient advocate)
Newly diagnosed
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This podcast was made possible with support from Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease.
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