Smart Patients is an online community where patients and caregivers affected by complex illness learn from each other about treatments, challenges, and how it all fits into the context of their experience. Collectively, our experience is a vast and often untapped resource. Together, we can become more expert in our conditions and receive better care as a result.
As most of you know, the great patient advocate Mike Katz passed away in April of 2015. One of his many important roles has been leading the IMF's support of an online peer-to-peer community for myeloma patients. Mike founded our online patient community in 1995 and led it for nearly 20 years when it was an email-based system as part of the Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR). He led its transition to the Smart Patients web-based platform in early 2014 and worked closely with the Smart Patients team until his passing.
For those who don't already know, Smart Patients is an online community where patients and caregivers affected by complex illness learn from each other about treatments, challenges, and how it all fits into the context of their experience. Collectively, our experience is a vast and often untapped resource. Together, we can become more expert in our conditions and receive better care as a result.
If you or your loved one is a myeloma patient, please join us at http://www.smartpatients.com/partners/imf.