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Hepatitis C: Our Worst Problem
“What comes to mind when you hear the word liver? Onions? Or a miraculous and essential organ that performs more than 500 functions? If a celebrity like David Bowie is reported to die from liver cancer, what would you think? Sex, drugs, and rock & roll? Or that actually, it’s the…
Bringing Culture Into Focus
As someone who has lived for more than thirty years with inflammatory bowel disease, twenty years post-liver transplant, and now exactly thirty days after bilateral knee replacements I feel I have earned the term complex patient. You can surely imagine that I have decades of stories from my extensive and frequent interactions with the healthcare system to provide…
Everyone with Hepatitis C Deserves Access to a Cure
On World Hepatitis Day we should be rejoicing that thanks to cutting edge research,
breakthrough treatments are now available that can cure hepatitis C.
GLI Founder and President Donna Cryer Appointed to the GAO’s HIT Policy Committee
Washington, DC (May 5, 2015) — The Global Liver Institute is pleased to announce the naming of its Founder and President, Donna Cryer, JD, to the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)…
HCV Treatment Access Letter Sign-On
The undersigned organizations, medical providers, and community members are alarmed by the escalating crisis in access to new lifesaving hepatitis C treatments. These drugs have the potential to help us end the hepatitis C epidemic and save thousands of lives. Although the Affordable Care…
A Letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services
On behalf of the over 700 hundred organizations, medical providers, and individuals who signed the enclosed letter, we are writing to ask for your leadership in addressing the serious and harmful barriers to accessing new hepatitis C treatments. We are alarmed by the proliferation of restrictions numerous private…
Donna Cryer Testifies before Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA)
Good morning, my name is Donna Cryer. I am President and CEO of the Global Liver Institute (GLI), the innovation and collaboration platform for the liver community worldwide. At GLI we work to (1) identify and accelerate the adoption of best practices in liver disease prevention, education…