Physician Mom & Child Advocate with Dr. Heather Gatcombe

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On this episode we have the caring and insightful Dr. Heather Gatcombe:

• Board Certified Radiation Oncologist at Emory University
• Assitant Professor and Vice Chair of Community and Belonging
• Board of Trustees: United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation 

She shares her story:

• Receiving a call from the school nurse that her then 2nd grade child had partial paralysis with concern for stroke
• His journey from heart failure to heart transplant
• 5 year diagnostic delay of her son's DNA mutation
• Mitochondrial Disease
• Physician couple parent guilt
• Giving up control and trusting healthcare professional experts
• Trusting your gut and advocating for your child
• Finding and sculpting your own path
• How to care for yourself while caring for a child
• Now 17 y.o. son's desire to help other children
• Celebrating the now

She is  passionate about:

• Amplifying the needs of patients and families within the mitochondrial disease and pediatric heart transplant communities
• Filling in the mitochondrial disease medical education gap

Resources:

United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
Mito U

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