Rookie of the Year Archives

Presenting the 2019 WEGO Health Awards Winners

Each year, the WEGO Health Awards program aims to shed light on the advocacy work of Patient Leaders across all condition areas, platforms, and continents. This year, the eighth cycle of the program, proved to be the biggest celebration yet. With over 6,000 nominations and 130,0000 endorsements, we were able to recognize more Patient Leaders…

Top 3 Tips for Patients Facing a New Diagnosis

Facing a new diagnosis may bring fear, anxiety and a search on Dr. Google (only to reveal the worst possible scenarios of course). Fortunately, there are hundreds of patient communities and leaders online ready to embrace and support you as you begin your patient journey. WEGO Health Awards Best Kept Secret Patient Leader, Amber Wallace,…

2018 Top 10 Rookies of the Year

There are thousands of Patient Leaders working day in and day out to educate, raise awareness and support their patient community. The WEGO Health Awards give us the chance to recognize Patient Leaders across all condition areas and platforms, to ultimately find the top Patient Leaders in each space. To recognize the Patient Leaders community…

5 Tips for Sharing Your Story

Sharing your story can be scary and intimidating. You may wonder why would anyone ever want to hear what I have gone through? What makes what I have to say important? Will I be laughed at or criticized? Well, I’m here to tell you I was in that phase of hesitancy but decided to…

My Story, My Journey

Every year more and more patients are stepping out and sharing their story with the world. These newbies deserve to be recognized for their courage and inspiration. Help us give these new Patient Leaders, just like Cindy, the encouragement they need to keep putting in the hard work. Nominate them for the WEGO Health "Rookie…

Announcing Health Activist Award Finalists: Rookie of the Year

Before we announce the winners of the Health Activist Awards - we want to announce who made the cut and were selected as Finalists for each award. Let's look at the Rookie of the Year Award Finalists. One of these will be the winner - but all are incredible Health Activists that you should…