Christina’s Journey as a Patient

As an active Bahai’ and Mother to her one son, Christian, Christina DiArcangelo believes that listening, learning, and growing are everyday values that can change the world by impacting our own hearts, homes, and communities. Professionally, Christina wears the hat of a clinical research pioneer, entrepreneur, contracts negotiator, and business owner. Personally, Christina’s journey as a patient began with a need to address her autoimmune diseases that were a bi-product of domestic abuse. Domestic and mental abuse took its toll on the biotech executive who had been instilled with hard-working, driven, and tough blue-collar DNA since day one, with depression and anxiety that amplified the severity of her autoimmune diseases, made it difficult to maintain a healthy weight, and much more.

Christina stepped foot on the path to recovery once she realized she couldn’t go at it alone, and for her son’s benefit she knew she had to get better. Many of us, especially in leadership positions, operate under a notion that reaching out for help and support makes us weak. However, it was once Christina realized that reaching out to others for help was the key, she regained her strength and slowly but surely began seeing improvements in the quality of her life.

The willingness to seek help from therapists, trusted doctors, nutritionists, and many other healthcare professionals was the positive tipping point for Christina’s journey as a patient. Today, Christina has found a health and wellness regiment that works for her and she continues to make improvements each day with her lifestyle choices that include things like diet, exercise, sleep, and rest and recovery. 

If there’s one thing that Christina hopes her work and patient advocacy will do, it’s to show others that we are all the same. We all need help from time to time, and we should never be ashamed or afraid to ask for it when we feel like we need it. Christina’s work through Affinity Bio Partners, Affinity Patient Advocacy, and Spectral Analytics Precision Tele-Monitoring plays an important role in providing patients a sense of hope through access to the latest and greatest in clinical treatments, research, trials, medicine, and resources to advance their progress.