Ryan Prior



Ryan Prior is a patient and advocate who wrote and co-directed Forgotten Plague based on his disease experience and experiences of other patients as well as the science and politics of ME/CFS.

Illness Onset Leads To Advocacy
Ryan Prior was a healthy, athletic high school student in 2006 when he became ill with ME/CFS. After writing an article for USA Today: College about his illness he received so much feedback that he realized he needed to create a documentary: "A Film That Tells The Great Under-Reported Medical Story Of Our Time." His crowdfund raised $120,000 and Forgotten Plague was underway. Ryan and his wife Nicole Castillo direct.

The Blue Ribbon Fellowship is a "highly competitive fellowship in neuro-immune medicine for students from across the nation or the world to study with leaders in the field."

Awards

 * Stanford MedX ePatient Scholar


 * ProHealth's 2014 Advocate of the Year

Nominations

 * Eagle Rare 2017 Rare Life Honor Award and Contest open for international daily voting until January 2017.

Talks and Interviews

 * 2016, In Sickness + In Health - Podcast 36 - ME/CFS & POTS w Ryan Prior (Begins at 11:45)


 * 2016, Just Talking Podcast


 * 2014, Episode 58 - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Foundation


 * 2014, Episode 57 - Patient Perspectives - Ryan Prior and the Blue Ribbon Fellowship

Media exposure

 * 17 June 2013, A Young Man, a Big Disease and a Big Idea

Online Presence
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Website