Marie-Maxime Bergeron

Marie-Maxime is a registered dietitian and a patient partner. Her lived experience as a septic shock survivor was a catalyst to seek ways that she could contribute to improving healthcare. She became involved in advocacy, steering committees, working groups and knowledge transfer. Marie-Maxime’s engagement experience drove her to pursue a master’s degree in healthcare education, become a trainee and patient partner for Sepsis Canada, a national multidisciplinary, collaborative research network, and collaborate on a patient engagement case study within the University of British Columbia Action on Sepsis Research Cluster. After her discharge from intensive care, she felt it was important to share her story to raise public awareness about sepsis as well as to deepen her understanding of what had happened to her; becoming engaged in these activities was an opportunity to voice the needs of sepsis patients, and in doing so, shape needed changes in healthcare processes and outcomes.