198: An Interview With New Mexico Patient Ambassador Karen Smoot of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Barry Byrne, MD, PhD, an expert on Pompe disease and director of the University of Florida's Powell Gene Therapy Center.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Eric Matteson, MD, of the Mayo Clinic and winner of the American College of Rheumatology's 2025 Presidential Gold Medal.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Karen Smoot, a resident of New Mexico who has both idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Karen is a patient ambassador for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Gabriela Romanow, founder of Boston, Massachusetts-based Rare Vision. The charity showcases works by artists with rare neuroimmune diseases such as NMOSD, MOGAD and transverse myelitis.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Lisa Shea, director of global patient advocacy and engagement for immunology at Johnson & Johnson, about the experiences of patients affected by HDFN and FNAIT.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Nicole Lamanna, MD, a leukemia physician specializing in CLL treatment at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews May Lee Tjoa, PhD, senior global medical affairs leader for Johnson & Johnson’s nipocalimab and maternal-fetal immunology division.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews John Mascarenhas, MD, a professor with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, on advancing care in myelofibrosis.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Catherine Miller, PharmD, global medical affairs lead for hereditary angioedema (HAE) at Intellia Therapeutics, on an experimental gene editing therapy known as lonvo-Z.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Shoshana Revel-Vilk, MD, director of the Gaucher unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel.