My connection to immunology is more than academic, it is also personal. In 2017, while I was a first-year undergraduate student studying Microbiology and Immunology at McGill, I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition that led me to become paralyzed.
Since recovering, I have devoted myself to helping other patients affected by neurological conditions as a Director of the Friends of the Neuro Foundation at the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital where I was a patient, and as the Quebec Director of the GBS/CIDP Foundation of Canada.
It is an incredible privilege to be able to use my experience to support and advocate for patients and their families as they navigate a diagnosis with a rare neurological disorder. Surviving a rare disease has also inspired me to pursue research in the field of immunology and a career in medicine.