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2 weeks ago | 
pharmacytimes.com | Christian John Lillis |Alana Hippensteele
CommentaryVideoMay 24, 2025Author(s):,Christian John Lillis reflects on key insights from the 2025 Peggy Lillis Foundation C diff Summit, highlighting the critical role of pharmacists in infectious disease care, persistent challenges in patient outcomes, and the need for renewed investment in public health infrastructure and policy.
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2 weeks ago | 
pharmacytimes.com | Christian John Lillis |Alana Hippensteele
CommentaryVideoMay 23, 2025Author(s):,Christian John Lillis discusses the 2025 Peggy Lillis Foundation C diff Summit, emphasizing the enduring need for community-building among survivors, the importance of sustained public health advocacy, and the growing urgency to defend federal health agencies amid political and institutional uncertainty.
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2 months ago | 
contagionlive.com | John Parkinson |Christian John Lillis
The Peggy Lillis Foundation is hosting its annual National C diff Summit, which is going to be held on Monday, March 31, at the Kellogg Conference Hotel at Gallaudet University in Washington DC. The annual event brings together clinicians, industry, C diff patients, caregivers and other stakeholders. This year’s Summit will feature scientific updates in the morning, networking for all attendees over lunch, and hands-on training for volunteers in the afternoon.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
contagionlive.com | John Parkinson |Christian John Lillis
This fall, there has been some legal limbo going on at the FDA as it pertains to deciding if the federal agency should restrict the nonprofit company, OpenBiome, from continuing to distribute its fecal products for use in fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). This procedure has been a life-saving treatment for both adult and pediatric patients suffering from fulminant C difficile for several years.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
contagionlive.com | John Parkinson |Christian John Lillis
The Clostridioides difficile (C diff) organization, The Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF) has had a big year. The patient advocacy group helped in getting a bill into Congress. Their work in advocacy and having conversations with Congresswoman Yvette Clark (D-NY) and her staff, led to Clark introducing the legislation, the Peggy Lillis Clostridioides difficile Inclusion Act, into the House of Representatives this past summer.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
contagionlive.com | John Parkinson |Christian John Lillis
When Christian Lillis’ mother passed away suddenly at the age of 56 in 2010 from Clostridioides difficile (C diff), he had to go through the process of getting her affairs in order. She did not have a will, and Christian had to go through the courts to become the executor of her will. During the process he had spoken to someone within the pathologist’s department, and Christian naturally inquired about if his mother’s infection was reported to the state or federal agency.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Christian John Lillis
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save A pressing public health crisis known as antimicrobial resistance – or AMR – is killing well over a million people every year, including 35,000 in the United States alone. If policymakers don’t act quickly, the annual AMR death toll could grow to 10 million by 2050. AMR occurs when disease-causing pathogens evolve to resist our current arsenal of antimicrobial treatments.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
pharmacytimes.com | Christian John Lillis
Sep 13, 2023Failing to protect the elderly from disease has consequences beyond nursing homes. My grandmother Dorothy Daly died in August 2016 at aged 93 years. Though she had dementia for the last few years, it felt too soon. Well into her 80s, my grandmother, whom we called Nanny, was the sharp, funny, and loving matriarch of our large Irish Catholic family. Her life was one of immense contributions and devastating losses. Though Nanny had dementia, that wasn’t what killed her.
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Aug 6, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Robert Pearl |Christian John Lillis |Kenneth W Lin |Julie Craig
For decades, research studies and news stories have concluded the American system is ineffective, too expensive and falling further behind its international peers in important measures of performance: life expectancy, chronic-disease management and incidence of medical error. As patients and health care professionals search for viable alternatives to the status quo, a recent mega-merger is raising new questions about the future of medicine.
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Christian John Lillis |Michael Fine |Eva Feder Kittay |Jean Paul Brutus
I’ve spoken at many medical conferences since co-founding the Peggy Lillis Foundation for C. diff Education & Advocacy following my mother’s death from a C. difficile infection in 2010. Unfortunately, I am often the only patient advocate. The pressure of representing patients in a group of hundreds of clinicians, scientists, and administrators can be intimidating. But for the most part, I have always felt welcome and valued.
