Christine is a passionate health advocate, who has been living with Parkinson’s for over 10 years. Her story has impressed doctors and physiotherapists around the world. Christine got back her movement through intense exercise. Her video Handstand for Parkinson’s was shortlisted in World Parkinson’s Congress video competition in 2019. Inspired by her experience at the World Parkinson’s Congress, she didn’t stop there and pushed herself further physically and made a before and after video.
Far from stopping her, Parkinson’s has given her a passion for health promotion and addressing preventable health issues early.
She is driven her to raise awareness of the lack of services or knowledge about the benefits of exercise. She lived in Peru for the first 8 years of her diagnosis and started a local association and then launched an International Alliance of Parkinson’s for Spanish Speakers to work together. She is an Alumi (2023) Ambassador for the World Parkinson’s Congress, a PD Avenger, an amateur film maker and now she is a co-principal investigator for an project concerning Parkinson’s epidemiology in Latin America.
She is soon to be a published author as a result of this research. That’s the short version but the beauty and inspiring nature of this story is in the details. Please sign up for the newsletter/blog or to simply keep in touch.
She invites you into her world though videos: Link to channel
She loves public speaking and inspiring others so is open to speaking engagements.
Reasearch and patient engagment are her passions professionally too. She now works in public Health Patient Enducation, and a gymnast, mother, wife and advoate the rest of the time.
*Christine Jeya is short for Jeyachandran which I use as my youtube channel- the name she gained through marriage to her wonderful husband David.