55. The Future of Interstitial Cystitis Research

In this episode of The Women's Pelvic Health Podcast I am joined by Mike Greenwell, the chair of the Interstitial Cystitis Association (ICA), who has over 25 years of extensive involvement with health and risk communications across the U.S. Federal Government and the private sector. Mike is responsible for offering a wide range of services to health-related contracts, especially with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he served for 14 years as the communications director for two large centers. He serves on numerous boards, including the American Heart Association and the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, and has served as a senior consultant to the Arthritis Foundation, Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Syndrome Association, as well as the ICA.

We discuss the research that is currently being done on Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome, the greatest obstacles in funding this research and why IC/BPS is so poorly understood.

Thank you for listening and I wish all of you health, healing and happiness.