STAFF
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Pat Anson is an award winning journalist who has worked as a reporter, producer, writer, and anchor at TV and radio stations in Los Angeles, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Iowa. He was a correspondent for Nightly Business Report and HealthWeek on PBS.
You can contact Pat at editor@painnewsnetwork.org.
Board of Directors
Crystal Lindell is senior editor and chair of PNN’s board of directors. After five years of unexplained rib pain, Crystal was diagnosed with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
You can reach Crystal at clindell@painnewsnetwork.org.
Carol Jay Levy has lived with trigeminal neuralgia, a chronic facial pain disorder, for over 30 years. She is the author of “A Pained Life, A Chronic Pain Journey.”
Carol is the founder of the Facebook support group Women in Pain Awareness.
Contributors
Barby Ingle is a reality TV personality living with multiple rare and chronic diseases. She is a chronic pain educator, patient advocate, motivational speaker, and best-selling author on pain topics. Barby has received over 25 awards for her advocacy efforts over the years. You can follow her at www.barbyingle.com
Forest Tennant has retired from clinical practice but continues his groundbreaking research on the treatment of intractable pain and arachnoiditis.
Forest’s research is made possible by the Arachnoiditis Research and Education Project of the Tennant Foundation, which also sponsors PNN’s Patient Resources section.
Cynthia Toussaint is the founder and spokesperson at For Grace, a non-profit dedicated to bettering the lives of women in pain. She has lived with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and 15 co-morbidities for nearly four decades.
Cynthia is author of “Battle for Grace: A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love.”
Ann Marie Gaudon is a registered social worker and psychotherapist in the Waterloo region of Ontario, Canada with a specialty in chronic pain management. She has been a chronic pain patient for over 30 years and works part-time as her health allows.
For more information about Ann Marie's counseling services, visit her website.
Mia Maysack lives with chronic migraine, cluster headache and fibromyalgia. She is a healthcare reform advocate and founder of Keepin’ Our Heads Up, a support network; Peace & Love, a life coaching practice; and Still We Rise, an organization that seeks to alleviate pain of all kinds.
Madora Pennington lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and writes about EDS on her blog, LessFlexible.com.
Madora graduated from UC Berkeley with minors in Journalism and Disability Studies.
