Patient-Partner

Sharon Roman

Sharon Roman is a patient-partner and writer for the British Medical Journal group. Roman is a member of the Patient Advisory Board for the Canadian Medical Association Journal and Co-Chair of the Brain Wellness Program at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. She also served a full term on the Patient Editorial Board for the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry from 2018-2020 and is a past MS Society of Canada webinar host.

In addition to magazines and newspapers, (e.g., The Globe and Mail), Roman has been published 12 times in 4 medical journals to date; 7 in British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2 in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP), 2 in Multiple Sclerosis Journal (MSJ), and 1 in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders (MSARD).

Research Related to Team

A Spoonful of Sugar: The risks of negative health outcomes of polypharmacy in MS is a bitter reality https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YIPFNTGBAVKXEUGSCXES/full
Making research accessible to people affected by MS and why that matters on Real Talk MS https://realtalkms.com/episode-265-making-ms-research-accessible-to-people-affected-by-ms-and-why-that-matters-with-sharon-roman/

Other Research and Accomplishments

The real p(atient) value | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/90/4/371
For Sharon Roman, the story is personal in this DMCBH feature article, https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/2017/12/19/sharon-roman-story-personal