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Maggie Whittum

Wow! How? For Love & Life

June 4, 2024 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Movie poster: For Love and Life: No Ordinary Campaign. Amazon Prime May 28. Two people embrace, smiling, looking up.

This essay is part of my LinkedIn newsletter series: Wow! How? Health. Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya brought their second daughter home on the same day that he received a devastating diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Brian was told he had six months to live. Seven years later, Brian is still alive. He and Sandra […]

Filed Under: Champions, Networkers Tagged With: ALS, Amy Tenderich, Anthony Carbajal, Brian Wallach, Casey Quinlan, diabetesmine, Elizabeth Jameson, Gilles Frydman, I AM ALS, Jamie Heywood, Katie McCurdy, Maggie Whittum, Michael Graves, Pictal Health, Rebel Health, Sandra Abrevaya, Stephen Heywood, Synapticure, Wow! How? Health, Yoko Sen

Surviving a pandemic like an artist

April 14, 2020 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Snow covered mountains with text reading: Life is so bizarre it must be a bad dream

Through her work as a film-maker, Maggie Whittum helps the rest of us make sense of this upside-down world we find ourselves in. And she reminds us that, unfortunately, this disorientation is familiar to people who survive stroke. Andrew Simonet, founder and director of Artists U, recently wrote an essay entitled, “This is What We […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Andrew Simonet, art, COVID19, Maggie Whittum, stroke

The Great Now What

October 29, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

A hand pieces together a ripped-up photo of a woman. Text reads: More than half of survivors live with chronic pain.

Today is World Stroke Day. With this post I’m amplifying the work that Maggie Whittum and her team are doing to raise awareness of the following: 15 million people suffer a stroke each year worldwide. Stroke is the #4 killer and the #1 cause of long-term disability in the U.S. There are over 7 million […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, key people Tagged With: Maggie Whittum, stroke

Artists of health care

September 4, 2018 By Susannah Fox 41 Comments

Naked Barbie doll with six sets of pliers clamped to her left leg

I have found that we can anticipate the future by paying attention to artists. Like hackers, artists bend tools until they break and ask, “Why CAN’T I do that?” They push the edges of any field they find themselves in. Autodesk, which makes software for people who make things, created the Pier 9 Residency Program to […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder Tagged With: Anatomical Element, Anthony Carbajal, art, Autodesk, Doug Lindsay, Elizabeth Jameson, Gilles Frydman, Jennifer Berry, Maggie Whittum, Regina Holliday, Spoon Theory, Stanford Medicine X, Yoko Sen

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