Patient Partner, Person with Lived Experience
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Having a stroke and heart disease has not defined Jennifer Monaghan, but rather given her the experience and passion to become an active volunteer and advocate. A lawyer by training, she is engaged in many national, provincial and local heart and stroke initiatives. With TRANSFORM HF/HeartLife, she is a Co-Chair of the Masterclass on Patient Partner Engagement in Cardiovascular Research. With the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance, she a Co-Chair as well as being on the Planning Committee of the Women’s Heart Health Summit 2023, Wear Red Canada Committee and speaker at several events. She is a member of the Executive Committee of StrokeCog Recovery Trials, the world’s first clinical trial platform dedicated exclusively to stroke recovery. With the Heart & Stroke Foundation she currently is a member of the BC Rehab and Reintegration Strategy, a Co-Facilitator on “Living with Stroke” and a member of the Community Consultation and Review Panel for the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations. In September 2023, she was selected by the Global Heart Hub in conjunction with SDA Bocconi School of Management, to attend a three-day, in-person training program on Advocacy & Communications for Patient Organisations and Patient Advocates in Rome, Italy.
In 2021 she received the inaugural Nieboer Lecturer Award from the Heart & Stroke Foundation, in collaboration with the Canadian Neurovascular Consortium and the Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery. She served on the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Mission Council on Vascular Cognitive Impairment, the British Heart Foundation’s “Big Beat Challenge” research award in London, UK and numerous other volunteer endeavors. She was only 43 when, without any risk factors, her stroke and ultimate discovery of cardiomyopathy happened, so she feels particularly invested in supporting health care and research on the heart and brain.
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Friday, October 27, 2023
15:15 – 15:25 EST