Join us as we share the hope with Diane Pickles.
This is our second interview with Diane Pickles, especially to discuss Additional Ventures and Source which can be found here: svsource.org
Diane Pickles is the Program Director of Project Singular at Additional Ventures, a large-scale genetic sequencing effort to fuel single ventricle heart disease research. Prior to joining Additional Ventures, Diane was the American Heart Association’s Program Director for One Brave Idea, an adult coronary heart disease research initiative based in Boston. Diane’s work in cardiovascular research follows two decades spent advancing policy solutions for a wide range of nonprofits in public health, education, criminal justice, and other public interest issue areas. Diane has deep expertise in patient advocacy, stakeholder engagement, project management, community organizing, media advocacy, coalition building, lobbying, and fundraising and development. A long time volunteer in the single ventricle community, Diane is a member of the Executive Leadership Team of the Fontan Outcomes Network, a longitudinal registry of single ventricle patients. Diane and her husband have two adult sons, one of whom has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.