Your Story Our Fight by Lupus LA

Season 2 | Episode #21 with Medical Writer and Lupus Patient, Melissa Walker

April 25, 2023 LupusLA Season 2 Episode 21
Your Story Our Fight by Lupus LA
Season 2 | Episode #21 with Medical Writer and Lupus Patient, Melissa Walker
Show Notes

Season TWO Episode TWENTY-ONE of the Your Story Our Fight® podcast welcomes Melissa Walker. Melissa is a Medical Writer, with a biomedical research background focusing on traumatic spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. She earned her Ph.D. in Medical Neuroscience from Indiana University School of Medicine before returning to UCLA department of Neurosurgery, for postdoctoral research. She was diagnosed with Graves’ thyroid disease in 2002, and has had Hashimoto’s since 2003, after radioiodine ablation therapy. She was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis in 2005, and Sjogren’s in 2016.