Long time Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF) Advocate and Board member Christina Fuhrman and her daughter Pearl are both C. diff survivors. Interviewed in early December by the Washington Post, Christina talks about how unnecessary antibiotics cause harm. She recalls her daughter’s struggle with an infection, as it placed her into …
April 2020 marked a decade since we lost Peggy Lillis to a community-acquired C. difficile infection and founded the Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF) to combat this disease. It also marked our fifth National C. diff Advocacy Summit. Initially planned to once again be held in Washington, DC, due to COVID-19 PLF …
The Peggy Lillis Foundation is delighted to be honoring New York State Senator Marty Golden with its 2016 Advocate Award. We recently spoke to Sen. Golden about what got him involved in public service and how New Yorkers can work with elected officials to tackle public health issues like C. …
This post was written by Gary H. Hoffman, MD, a colon and rectal surgeon with more than 35 years of experience in Beverly Hills, CA. Dr. Hoffman is the Clinical Chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He has written extensively about Clostridium difficile …
