THE PROACTIVE PATH - Key Persons
Our founder, Risa Simon, is on a mission to empower the nation's kidney patient population by inspiring them to proactively fight for a better quality of life. The life Risa now lives!
, is on a mission to empower the nation's kidney patient population by inspiring them to proactively fight for a better quality of life. The life Risa now lives!
What ignites Risa's passion? A personal calling to fix our kidney community's broken patient engagement system. Risa knows firsthand how patient education models lack proactive engagement and encouragement. From delayed treatment discussions to over saturated dialysis education to fistula-first campaigns-patients are being robbed of their only chance to secure a preemptive kidney transplant.
Risa founded The Proactive Path to positively disrupt patient engagement for the lion share of kidney disease patients who could benefit from a preemptive transplant.
Risa knows the life-changing power behind proactive patient engagement. She used her own fear as a powerful motivator and pushed herself to explore beyond the sacred walls of her doctor's exam room. Here Risa uncovered a whole new world of possibility. A world where one self-advocate, slow their disease progression and bypass dialysis by getting a transplant-first. This was a world full of hope and second chances. A world Risa never knew existed.
While Risa greatly benefited from these discoveries, she remained deeply troubled that a proactive path was rarely encouraged by kidney patient providers. This reality compelled her to pump up the volume on a more proactive path to better outcomes.
Fortunately, these discoveries snapped her out of her doctor's hypnotic "you've got time" trance in time to start fighting for her best life possible-the life she now lives. Today you'll find Risa marching full-steam-ahead, leading The Proactive Path and the TransplantFirst Academy to help patients who proactively want to live their best life possible.