Lived Experience

Location: VND 2289A
Evaluation link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2023_LivedExperience

Moderator: Dr. Manu Rangachari
Introduction (5 min)
Presentation and theme addressed (15 min each) and Q/A (10 min)

Yannick Drouin, Nicolas Belzile, Véronique Dallaire and Billy Slaght
In this session, you will engage with members of our local community who live with MS. You will learn about how MS has impacted their lives; the challenges they face and how they overcome them; and learn a little about what they see as important priorities in MS research.

Themes addressed will be : sharing your personal experience on diet, therapies and lifestyle, challenges faced in securing employment for people with MS, disability benefits and how to navigate the system, exacerbation of symptoms in the premenstrual period.