Read by health care providers, consumers and carers in 14 countries.
Recommended reading for General Practitioners by the Royal Australian College of General Practice.
“Your story is truly inspirational and I’m sure will give so many people, not just with arthritis, perseverance to keep going and hope for what they want to achieve in the future”
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Visit the Empowered Website and see Suzie speak on a range of issues related to living with a chronic illness...
The first signs of rheumatoid arthritis
Your first visit to the rheumatologist
Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDS)
Suzie's suggestions on living with inflammatory arthritis
May 2019
2019 Interview with customer about 'Arthritis, pregnancy and the path to parenthood'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iGnTduYW1Y&t=40s
March 2019
Lecture to Nursing students at Notre Dame University on the role of the health consumer in safety and quality in health care.
February 2018
Lecture to General Practitioner Training students at the University of Western Australia medical school on effective doctor/patient relationships, managing co-morbidities in patients with chronic disease, patient empowerment and self management, and early diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal disease.
August 2017
Lecture to General Practitioner Training students at the University of Western Australia medical school on the lived experience of musculoskeletal disease.
August 2017
Lecture to 1st year medical students at the University of Western Australia Medical School on the lived experience of musculoskeletal disease.
July 2017
Presentation to the Law Society of WA Criminal Law Committee on 'Doing Justice Differently: A Community Justice Centre for WA'
July 2017
Presenter at the Social Impact Festival, University of Western Australia Business School on 'Doing Justice Differently: A Community Justice Centre for WA'
July 2017
Lecture to 2nd year medical students at the University of Notre Dame Medical School on the lived experience of chronic illness and the role of complementary medicine in musculoskeletal disease.
June 2017
Guest Speaker at the Hollywood Hospital (Ramsay Health) Managers Conference, Perth Western Australia
May 2017
Lecture to 5th year Chiropractic students at Murdoch University, Perth Western Australia
May 2017
Presented at the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network Scientific Meeting, at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide South Australia
May 2017
Lecture to General Practitioner Training students at the University of Western Australia medical school on the lived experience of musculoskeletal disease.
April 2017
Presented at the Non-Adversarial Justice Conference on behalf of the University of Western Australia Law School, Sydney Australia
Feb 2017
Lecture to General Practitioner Training students at the University of Western Australia medical school on the lived experience of musculoskeletal disease.
May 2016
Panalist - Australian Rheumatology Association Industry Breakfast Symposium "The Patient Will See You Now" The Power of Conversation Exploring The Patient Perspective,
Darwin Australia
May 2017
Lecture to General Practitioner Training students at the University of Western Australia medical school on the lived experience of musculoskeletal disease.
March 2016
Talk - "Flourishing with arthritis"
Western Australian Self Funded Retiree's Association, Perth Western Australia
"We were privileged to have her share with us her courageous story of living with the musculoskeletal disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis. Suzie’s youthful beauty belies the daily battle she in fact has to wage to ‘make lemonade from lemons’. After her talk we understood better the severity, prevalence and impact of this disease… so choose empowerment over victimhood. And finally, use your experience to enrich the lives of others."
(Vera Payne, WA Self Funded Retirees Inc.)