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'''Ryan Prior''' is an advocate who wrote and co-directed the documentary, ''[[Forgotten Plague]]'', based on his experiences as well as others living with [[myalgic encephalomyelitis]]/[[chronic fatigue syndrome]] (ME/CFS). The topics of science and politics of [[ME/CFS]] were also included.
'''Ryan Prior''' is an advocate who wrote and co-directed the documentary, ''[[Forgotten Plague]]'', based on his experiences as well as others living with [[myalgic encephalomyelitis]]/[[chronic fatigue syndrome]] (ME/CFS). The topics of science and politics of [[ME/CFS]] were also included. He is the founder of [[The Blue Ribbon Foundation]].


== Illness onset leads To advocacy ==
Ryan is a Cross-Platform Associate Producer at CNN.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryantprior | title = Ryan Prior - Journalist at CNN/Co-Director of "Forgotten Plague" | last = Prior | first = Ryan | authorlink= | date = |website=LinkedIn|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=}}</ref>  
In 2006 Ryan Prior was a healthy, athletic high school student when he became ill with [[ME/CFS]]. After graduating college and becoming a journalist he wrote an article for [http://college.usatoday.com/2013/06/10/opinion-telling-the-hidden-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ USA Today: College] [http://college.usatoday.com/2012/10/02/opinion-the-real-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ ''Viewpoint: The real story of chronic fatigue syndrome''] and received so much feedback that he realized he needed to do more to report on the disease and produced a documentary: "A Film That Tells The Great Under-Reported Medical Story Of Our Time." His crowdfund raised $120,000 for ''[[Forgotten Plague]]''. Prior and his wife, [[Nicole Castillo]], co-directed.<ref>[http://mecfsdocumentary.com/fundraising/ Forgotten Plague Total Funds Raised:$120,000]</ref>


Prior also founded [[The Blue Ribbon Fellowship]] to educate students in the disease [[ME/CFS]]. Currently only 5% of medical schools have proper curricular, research and clinical standards of care for the disease.<ref>[http://theblueribbonfoundation.org/fellowship-details/ Fellowship Details]</ref>
== Illness onset leads to advocacy ==
In 2006 Ryan Prior was a healthy, athletic high school student when he became ill with [[ME/CFS]]. After graduating college and becoming a journalist he wrote an article for [http://college.usatoday.com/2013/06/10/opinion-telling-the-hidden-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ USA Today: College] [http://college.usatoday.com/2012/10/02/opinion-the-real-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ ''Viewpoint: The real story of chronic fatigue syndrome'']<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://college.usatoday.com/2012/10/02/opinion-the-real-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ | title = Viewpoint: The real story of chronic fatigue syndrome | last = Prior | first = Ryan | date = 2012-10-02|work=USA TODAY College|access-date=2018-08-10|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|language=en-US}}</ref> and received so much feedback that he realized he needed to do more to report on the disease and produced a documentary: "A Film That Tells The Great Under-Reported Medical Story Of Our Time."  His crowdfund raised $120,000 for ''[[Forgotten Plague]]''. Prior and his then-girlfriend, [[Nicole Castillo]], co-directed.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://mecfsdocumentary.com/fundraising/ | title = Fundraise | date = 2013-10-05|work=Forgotten Plague|access-date=2018-08-10|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
Prior also founded the [[The Blue Ribbon Fellowship]] to educate students in the disease [[ME/CFS]]. Currently only 5% of medical schools have proper curricular, research and clinical standards of care for the disease.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://theblueribbonfoundation.org/fellowship-details/ | title = Fellowship Details | date = 2013-12-09|work=The Blue Ribbon Foundation|access-date=2018-08-10|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
== Production credits on ME/CFS ==
* 2015, [[Forgotten Plague]]
 
* Oct 2018, [https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/health/chronic-fatigue-stuart-murdoch-belle-sebastian-turning-points/index.html Indie pop sensation's disease became his muse]<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/health/chronic-fatigue-stuart-murdoch-belle-sebastian-turning-points/index.html | title = Indie pop sensation's disease became his muse | last = CNN | first = Ryan Prior|work=CNN|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> Produced Dr. Sanjay Gupta's ''Turning Points'' interview with [[Stuart Murdoch]], a short segment and an article.


== Awards  ==
== Awards  ==
*[http://www.eaglerarelife.com/rarelives_winners_2017 2017 Eagle Rare Life ''Leadership Category'' Award] $5K Prize
*2014, [http://medicinex.stanford.edu/conf/a/medx2014/conference/speaker/247 ePatient Scholar; Executive Producer, The Blue Ribbon]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medicinex.stanford.edu/conf/a/medx2014/conference/speaker/247 | title = Speaker Profile: Ryan Prior | last= | first = | date = |website=medicinex.stanford.edu|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref>
*Stanford MedX ePatient Scholar<ref>[http://medicinex.stanford.edu/conf/a/medx2014/conference/speaker/247 ePatient Scholar; Executive Producer, The Blue Ribbon]</ref>
*2014, [http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=19960 ProHealth's Advocate of the Year]<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.prohealth.com/library/prohealths-2014-advocate-of-the-year-ryan-prior-34892 | title = ProHealth's 2014 Advocate of the Year – Ryan Prior - Prohealth | date = 2015-04-05|work=Prohealth|access-date=2018-08-10|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
*2017, [https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/ruth-libby-2017-grand-prize-winner-for-rare-life-award-2017-02-28 Eagle Rare Life ''Leadership Category'' Award]<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/ruth-libby-2017-grand-prize-winner-for-rare-life-award-2017-02-28 | title = Ruth Libby 2017 Grand Prize Winner for Rare Life Award | last = | first = | date = |work=MarketWatch|access-date=2018-08-10|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|language=en-US}}</ref> $5K Prize
*ProHealth's 2014 Advocate of the Year<ref>[http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=19960 ProHealth's 2014 Advocate of the Year]</ref>


== Nominations ==
== Nominations ==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Rare Eagle Rare] 2017 ''Rare Life Honor''<ref>[http://www.eaglerarelife.com/content/rare-life-honor Eagle Rare - Rare Life Honor]</ref> Award and Contest open for [http://www.eaglerarelife.com/content/ryan-prior international daily voting until January 2017]. *Won Leadership category and $5K Award*
*2017, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Rare Eagle Rare] ''Rare Life Honor''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eaglerarelife.com/node/60 | title = Ryan Prior {{!}} Eagle Rare Life|website=eaglerarelife.com|language=en|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref> *Won Leadership category and $5K Award*


== Talks and interviews ==
== Talks and interviews ==
*2016, [http://www.insicknesspod.com/blog/10-21-ryanprior In Sickness + In Health - Podcast 36 - ME/CFS & POTS w Ryan Prior] (Begins at 11:45)
*Jan 23, 2014, [https://soundcloud.com/ryan-prior-1/jimbo ME/CFS on Nationally Syndicated "Jim Bohannon Show"]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/ryan-prior-1/jimbo | title = ME/CFS on Nationally Syndicated "Jim Bohannon Show" | last = Bohannon | first = Jim | date = |website=Soundcloud|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=Aug 8, 2018}}</ref> Appearing, Dr. [[Andreas Kogelnik]], Ryan Prior, and [[Llewellyn King]] of [[ME/CFS Alert]].
*2016, [https://justtalkingpodcast.com/2016/10/11/with-ryan-prior/ Just Talking Podcast]
*2014, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJbSpdy7Kek ME/CFS Alert Episode 58 - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Foundation]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJbSpdy7Kek | title = MECFS Alert Episode 58: Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Foundation | last = King | first = Llewellyn | date = Mar 23, 2014 | website = YouTube|publisher=ME/CFS Alert|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=Aug 10, 2018}}</ref>
*2014, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJbSpdy7Kek [[ME/CFS Alert]] Episode 58 - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Foundation]
*2014, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoj_0uXp68I ME/CFS Alert Episode 57 - Patient Perspectives - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Fellowship]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoj_0uXp68I | title = MECFS Alert Episode 57: Patient Perspectives - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Fellowship | last = King | first = Llewellyn | date = Mar 12, 2014 | website = YouTube|publisher=ME/CFS Alert|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=Aug 10, 2018}}</ref>
*2014, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoj_0uXp68I [[ME/CFS Alert]] Episode 57 - Patient Perspectives - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Fellowship]
*2016, [http://www.insicknesspod.com/blog/10-21-ryanprior In Sickness + In Health - Podcast 36 - ME/CFS & POTS w Ryan Prior]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.insicknesspod.com/blog/10-21-ryanprior | title = 36 ME/CFS & POTS w Ryan Prior | last=Gael O'Regan | first = Cara | date = Oct 21, 2016 | website = |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=Aug 10, 2018}}</ref>  (Begins at 11:45)
*23 Jan 2014, [https://soundcloud.com/ryan-prior-1/jimbo Dr. [[Andreas Kogelnik]], Ryan Prior and [[Llewellyn King]] appeared on “The Jim Bohannon Show”]
*2016, [https://justtalkingpodcast.com/2016/10/11/with-ryan-prior/ Just Talking Podcast]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://justtalkingpodcast.com/2016/10/11/with-ryan-prior/ | title = With Ryan Prior | last=X | first = Christopher | date = Oct 11, 2016 | website = YouTube | archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=}}</ref>


==Media exposure==
==Media exposure==
*17 June 2013, [https://whchronicle.com/a-young-man-a-big-disease-and-a-big-idea/ ''A Young Man, a Big Disease and a Big Idea'']
*Jun 17, 2013, [https://whchronicle.com/a-young-man-a-big-disease-and-a-big-idea/ A Young Man, a Big Disease and a Big Idea]<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://whchronicle.com/a-young-man-a-big-disease-and-a-big-idea/ | title = A Young Man, a Big Disease and a Big Idea | last = King | first = Llewellyn | date = Jun 17, 2013|work=White House Chronicle|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=}}</ref>
*Aug 8, 2018, [https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08/health/iyw-ryan-me-cfs-story/index.html Millions suffer from an invisible disease: My ME/CFS story]<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/08/health/iyw-ryan-me-cfs-story/index.html | title = Millions suffer from an invisible disease: My ME/CFS story | last = Prior | first = Ryan|work=CNN|access-date=2018-08-10 | date = |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=}}</ref>


== Online presence ==
== Online presence ==
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*[https://www.facebook.com/ryan.prior.144 Facebook]
*[https://www.facebook.com/ryan.prior.144 Facebook]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryantprior LinkedIn]


*[http://rtprior.com/ Website]
*[http://rtprior.com/ Website]
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== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 14:21, July 25, 2023

Photo from ProHealth

Ryan Prior is an advocate who wrote and co-directed the documentary, Forgotten Plague, based on his experiences as well as others living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The topics of science and politics of ME/CFS were also included. He is the founder of The Blue Ribbon Foundation.

Ryan is a Cross-Platform Associate Producer at CNN.[1]

Illness onset leads to advocacy[edit | edit source]

In 2006 Ryan Prior was a healthy, athletic high school student when he became ill with ME/CFS. After graduating college and becoming a journalist he wrote an article for USA Today: College Viewpoint: The real story of chronic fatigue syndrome[2] and received so much feedback that he realized he needed to do more to report on the disease and produced a documentary: "A Film That Tells The Great Under-Reported Medical Story Of Our Time." His crowdfund raised $120,000 for Forgotten Plague. Prior and his then-girlfriend, Nicole Castillo, co-directed.[3]

Prior also founded the The Blue Ribbon Fellowship to educate students in the disease ME/CFS. Currently only 5% of medical schools have proper curricular, research and clinical standards of care for the disease.[4]

Production credits on ME/CFS[edit | edit source]

Awards[edit | edit source]

Nominations[edit | edit source]

  • 2017, Eagle Rare Rare Life Honor[9] *Won Leadership category and $5K Award*

Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]

Media exposure[edit | edit source]

Online presence[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Prior, Ryan. "Ryan Prior - Journalist at CNN/Co-Director of "Forgotten Plague"". LinkedIn.
  2. Prior, Ryan (October 2, 2012). "Viewpoint: The real story of chronic fatigue syndrome". USA TODAY College. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  3. "Fundraise". Forgotten Plague. October 5, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  4. "Fellowship Details". The Blue Ribbon Foundation. December 9, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  5. CNN, Ryan Prior. "Indie pop sensation's disease became his muse". CNN. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  6. "Speaker Profile: Ryan Prior". medicinex.stanford.edu. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  7. "ProHealth's 2014 Advocate of the Year – Ryan Prior - Prohealth". Prohealth. April 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  8. "Ruth Libby 2017 Grand Prize Winner for Rare Life Award". MarketWatch. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  9. "Ryan Prior | Eagle Rare Life". eaglerarelife.com. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  10. Bohannon, Jim. "ME/CFS on Nationally Syndicated "Jim Bohannon Show"". Soundcloud. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  11. King, Llewellyn (March 23, 2014). "MECFS Alert Episode 58: Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Foundation". YouTube. ME/CFS Alert. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  12. King, Llewellyn (March 12, 2014). "MECFS Alert Episode 57: Patient Perspectives - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Fellowship". YouTube. ME/CFS Alert. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  13. Gael O'Regan, Cara (October 21, 2016). "36 ME/CFS & POTS w Ryan Prior". Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  14. X, Christopher (October 11, 2016). "With Ryan Prior". YouTube.
  15. King, Llewellyn (June 17, 2013). "A Young Man, a Big Disease and a Big Idea". White House Chronicle.
  16. Prior, Ryan. "Millions suffer from an invisible disease: My ME/CFS story". CNN. Retrieved August 10, 2018.