Interview with Marie Coussens, PhD fellow Ghent University, Belgium Who are you & what is your relationship to OI? I’m Marie Coussens, a physiotherapist living in Belgium and I obtained my PhD last year in October 2023 in health and life sciences at Ghent University. I first started my PhD trajectory in adults with hypermobile…
Interview with Dr. Jeanne Franzone, Nemour’s Children’s Hospital, Wilmington, USA In most countries, pediatric surgeons are not allowed to operate on adults with OI because of the way hospitals are organized. Usually, the surgery is performed by an adult physician who knows about one body part (like hip, fingers, knee, pelvis etc). What are the…
Interview with Leanne Baird, graduate of the University of Cincinnati Genetic Counseling Graduate Program Who are you & what is your relationship to OI? My name is Leanne Baird, and I am a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati Genetic Counseling Graduate Program in the US. I have a passion for educating patients about…
Read our interview with Nadezhda Epishina, M.D. and physical therapist Charitable Fund „Fragile people“ (Russian OI-organization) from Moscow, Russia. The interview was first published in OIFE Magazine 2-2021. Who are you and what is your relationship to OI? My name is Nadezhda Epishina. I am a doctor and a physical therapist. I have been engaged…
Who is behind the survey? OIFE and the OIF are assisting with the distribution of a survey developed by a project team supported by Care4BrittleBones. The team consist of professionals interested in increasing the knowledge about the physical well-being of individuals with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). Project team Kathleen Montpetit, Occupational Therapist (retired), MSc OT, Montreal,…
