Dr. Soania Mathur is a patient and a physician. She was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson disease at age 28. She continued her family practice, while growing her family, for 12 more years, before the burden of living with the disease required her to resign clinical practice. She now focuses her time on Parkinson’s disease advocacy. She is the cofounder of PD Avengers, a global network of Parkinson’s disease patients and organizations. Dr. Mathur is also involved with many other Parkinson’s research and advocacy groups.
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is a family physician living outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada who resigned her clinical practice twelve years following her diagnosis of Young Onset Parkinsons Disease at age 28. Now she is a dedicated speaker, writer, educator, and Parkinsons advocate. Her platform, UnshakeableMD (www.unshakeablemd.com) serves as a resource for patient education as well as an outlet for her personal experiences with this disease.
Dr. Mathur is an active speaker in Canada and internationally, serves on committees and boards for several organizations and has authored a number of published papers and online pieces that focus on patient education, empowerment, and the vital importance of involving patients in all areas of clinical research. Recently she co-founded PD Avengers, a self-funded, global alliance of Parkinson’s advocates dedicated to unifying the global PD community to add urgency to the areas of wellness, research, and advocacy, to end Parkinson’s (www.pdavengers.com).
