#WeAreLilly - 35,000 global employees #PoweredbyPurpose “I began working in healthcare communications in the early 1990s, following a 12-year career as a television news anchor/reporter. Over the last 25 years, I have held roles across the healthcare landscape, communicating how a new treatment, test or medical device would improve patients' lives. The chance to tell those stories at Lilly is the opportunity of a lifetime. It is a life challenged twice by cancer. I was diagnosed with stage 1 B-cell lymphoma at age 36. Three rounds of chemo and a month of radiation therapy seemed to do the trick. But in 2014, when I had been in complete remission for more than 18 years, I began suffering acute abdominal pain. That's when I was diagnosed with five tumors caused by a rare lymphoma called PTCL – peripheral T-cell lymphoma – in my small intestine. Chemo and a medicine that Lilly developed half a century earlier killed the tumors. But then a small intestine perforation resulted in overn...