Too Good to Be True: Reflections on a Down Syndrome Clinical Trial
Ph.D. candidate Anna Moyer reflects on the bittersweet outcome of a clinical trial in children with Down syndrome.
Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Ph.D. candidate Anna Moyer reflects on the bittersweet outcome of a clinical trial in children with Down syndrome.
Anna Moyer ⋅ Perspectives in Research clinical trial, down syndrome, pharmaceuticals, Research ⋅
The Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Mental Health Grad Network honor winners of the Meyer-Beers essay contest, which aimed to raise awareness about the high prevalence of mental health conditions and neurodiversity in academia.
Anna Moyer ⋅ Events and Happenings, Honor Roll Academia, essay contest, mental health, neurodiversity ⋅
While some grad students enjoy rock climbing or running marathons, others prefer the quiet pleasures of a night in. Read how Ph.D. student Anna Moyer uses knitting to show her Baltimore, science, and Hopkins pride.
Anna Moyer ⋅ A Day in the Life activities, Baltimore, knitting ⋅
Nothing spells summer in Baltimore like the smell of hot asphalt, the sulfurous haze of backyard fireworks and the sweet siren’s call of a faraway ice cream truck. But if the weather’s heating up and you’re feeling down, take a day to get outside, explore the city and experience its thriving frozen dairy dessert scene […]
Anna Moyer ⋅ A Day in the Life activities, Baltimore, fun, ice cream ⋅
“We often use illness to disparage a way of being, and identity to validate that same way of being. This is a false dichotomy … Many conditions are both illness and identity, but we can see one only when we obscure the other.” Andrew Solomon’s Far from the Tree Elena Schwartz was born with rosehips […]
Anna Moyer ⋅ A Day in the Life disability, disability resources, living with disease, POTS ⋅
Photo credit: Kelly Valeri When my younger brother, Sam, was 14 years old, he went outside, stripped to his white, Fruit of the Loom underwear, tipped over a plastic wagon and yelled, “Uh-oh!” He was re-enacting a scene from the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, though no one in my family knew it […]
Anna Moyer ⋅ A Day in the Life down syndrome, genes, Genetics ⋅