Lymphatic Education
& Research Network

A guest blog post by Amanda Sobey. Amanda blogs at www.amandasobey.com. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram at @am.sobey.

Since 2002, I have battling an incurable illness known as lymphedema (LE).

At the time of diagnosis, little information was known about treating this

Sarah Sheppard, M.D., Ph.D., currently a post-doctoral fellow and attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, under the supervision of Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked Dr. Sheppard to

Lauren Sestito, currently a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, under the supervision of Dr. Susan Thomas, received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked Lauren to share her thoughts on that

Glicella Salazar-De Simone, Ph.D., currently a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, under the supervision of Carrie Shawber Ph.D., received a Travel Award and a Top Poster Award from LE&RN to attend the 2019 Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked Glicella to share her

John Pawlak, currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Dr. Kathleen Caron, received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked John to share his thoughts on that experience with us and to tell

Anish Mukherjee, currently a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, under the supervision of Dr. J. Brandon Dixon, received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked Anish to share his thoughts on that experience with us

Christopher Morris, currently a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Professor Moore Jr., received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked Christopher to share his thoughts on that experience with us and to tell us a bit

Wanshu Ma, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Chicago, under the supervision of Dr. Guillermo Oliver, received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked Wanshu to share her thoughts on that experience with us and to tell us a bit

Matthew Cribb, currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, under the supervision of Dr. J. Brandon Dixon, received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX. We asked Matthew to share his thoughts on that experience with us

This free Livestream Symposium will be presented by Michelle Lee Hsia, OTD, OTR/L, CLT on Thursday, August 15, 2019, at 1pm EDT (12pm CDT, 11am MDT, 10 am PDT). To attend, just join us at our Livestream event page. Recorded video will be available on LE&RN's website in a few weeks.

Michelle