About Me

My name is Suzanne Tierney. I am the CEO/President of the Lupus Foundation of America, Greater Ohio Chapter (LFA,GOC). I am also a lupus patient. I have faced countless challenges throughout my life with lupus, which fuel my passion and commitment to those whose lives have been affected by lupus. I am driven to surpass all the challenges and demands the LFA, GOC meets in its efforts to fulfill its mission. My perseverance in helping lupus patients will not falter until a cause or cure is found.

Ultimately, my hope is that this blog will empower all my fellow lupians to have a better quality of life with lupus. Most of us already know that this is a very complicated illness. Living with lupus is not an easy task.  Frankly, it is very challenging.  Still… I am confident that most of you can have a full and robust life.

It has been my privilege to be the CEO of the Lupus Foundation of America, Greater Ohio Chapter. I am embarking on my 25th year with the LFA.

It is this  journey with lupus that inspires me to write to you.

Since I have this chronic illness myself,  I have embarked on a journey with thousands of others through the years.  Each journey different.  This is a mysterious and complicated illness.  This is partly what makes it so hard to diagnose and treat.

 This is very important: I need you to understand that the LFA is the nation’s leading health organization that is dedicated solely to lupus.  It is the driving force behind the cause and cure for lupus. Together with its many affiliates, it has the power to make change and bring down barriers that have stifled the world of lupusl

I can tell you first hand that you and your family will learn more from the LFA than you will from most of your physicians about lupus. It is through the peer support that you will become most knowledge about lupus.  Lupus is kind of like pearls in the sense that no two pearls are alike nor are lupus patients.  This is not a cookie cutter illness.