Join MSAA’s Kate Durack along with three special guests for this hour-long webinar discussing navigating the challenging terrain of contraception, family planning, pregnancy, and delivery with multiple sclerosis (MS). Guests will share their lived experience merged with the latest research as support for these important stages in one’s MS journey.

About the Presenters

Alyx Rossi, FNP-BC is a certified family nurse practitioner at the UT Health Austin Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center. She specializes in neurology care, specifically neuroimmunology, and multiple sclerosis. She is actively completing her doctoral degree in nursing practice at the University of Nevada Reno with a focus on policy and applied research.

Lisa Doggett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, DipABLM is a board-certified family and lifestyle medicine specialist at UT Health Austin’s Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center. Diagnosed with MS in 2009, she now provides lifestyle and preventive care consultations to others with MS. Her award-winning memoir, Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis, was published in 2023 and chronicles her journey with MS as a mother and doctor turned patient. She is also one of MSAA’s Art Showcase artists for 2024.

Kimberly Carter, MD, MPP is an assistant professor at the Dell Medical School Department of Women’s Health. Dr. Carter is also an active member on several professional committees and currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Texas Medical Association Select Committee on Medicaid, CHIP, and the Uninsured and also the Co-Chair of the Task Force on Health Care Coverage, among many others.