Ms. Buckley has been a Health/Patient Advocate for over three decades while living with a chronic pain condition. She works with individuals and their family/caregivers to access appropriate healthcare services to address their most pressing needs. Maintaining a robust network with other Health Advocates enables her to refer clients to specialist Advocates as needed. She has served on the boards of several non-profit patient and professional organizations. On the subject of healthcare, she has testified at local, state and federal policy hearings, spoken at conferences and in the media, written articles, and coached hundreds of people to self-advocate for better care written articles. Conditions that Buckley is familiar with include Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, angiodysplasia of intestines, arthritis, asthma, cancer, celiac sprue, chronic pain, concussion, costochondritis, depression, diverticular disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Loeys-Dietz Syndrome, Marfan Syndrome, end of life care, endometriosis, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, GEED, hypothyroidism, irritable bowel syndrome, migraine, Reynauds, spinal stenosis, stroke, vulvodynia.