From Grief To Global Advocacy For Clinical Research In Infectious Diseases with Christian John Lillis
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Christian John Lillis discusses the impact of losing his mother to a C. diff infection and his subsequent advocacy work.
Send us Fan Mail A routine dental visit, a few days of diarrhea, and then the unthinkable: septic shock and a life lost within 24 hours. Our guest, Christian John Lillis, shares how losing his mother Peggy to a community-acquired C. diff infection exposed a silent public health crisis and led him to co-found the Peggy Lillis Foundation (https://cdiff.org/). From that moment, advocacy turned concrete: raising awareness, training volunteers to speak with lawmakers and media, and pushing for pol...
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