4th Annual WALKTOBER Makes Strides

By all measures, Birdshot Uveitis Society of North America‘s fourth annual WALKTOBER event was a great success! Many thanks to our birdshot uveitis community for stepping up, both literally and figuratively, and upping your fitness game. You encouraged each other as you impacted your wellness!

In all, 73 people registered for the month long event and many logged in with their weekly progress. Prizes were awarded throughout the month. Congratulations to our 8 winners!

Many participants also joined a BUSNA WALKTOBER private Facebook group and shared pictures of some of the amazing places that they walked, hiked, swam, and bicycled. There were so many beautiful settings for the walks from Florida to British Columbia and everywhere in between. Some even checked in from destinations in Europe. It was fun keeping up with the hundred-plus posts and thanks to those who wore their BUSNA WALKTOBER T-shirts.

BUSNA also thanks the birdshot uveitis specialists and researchers in the USA and Canada for joining in on our fun. Dr. Marie-Josee Aubin (Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital/Univ of Montreal); Dr. Larissa Derzko-Dzulynsky (Vista Eye Center/Univ of Toronto); Dr. Lynn Hassman (University of Colorado Anschutz); Dr. Lucia Sobrin (Mass Eye & Ear); and Dr. Jennifer E. Thorne (Wilmer Eye Institute), sent in pictures from their walks. Dr. Hassman’s group also created a motivational kick-off video filled with birdshot facts and spectacular Colorado scenery.

We thank our event sponsors, ANI Pharmaceuticals and Genentech, who supported WALKTOBER, the ’Thriving with Birdshot’ educational webinar series and the ‘Gathering’ virtual meetups. The sponsored T-shirts and prizes were a big hit and encouraged us on our fitness journeys.

Thank you to each member of our birdshot community for helping to make this event a success!