Episode #0080 Victor Roggli – Succeeding in the Career World with CF

Title: Victor Roggli – Succeeding in the Career World with CF
Victor Roggli, 58 years old with cystic fibrosis, living in North Carolina, married with a family, and working full time in the medical research field. Victor, a professor of pathology, focusing on lungs, spends his workday teaching, doing research, and consulting. Victor is LIVING BREATHING SUCCEEDING with CF, the career world, and life!
-    Victor was born in Winchester, Tennessee on a farm and was diagnosed at 12 years of age.
-    “Growing up I was always very active playing touch football, softball, and basketball. I am very thankful to my parents for letting me play sports and be a real boy” states Victor.
-    Victor attended Rice University where he majored in Bio Chemistry and then attended medical school at Baylor in Houston, Texas.
-    “If I had a chance to do something differently when I was growing up with CF I would have been more open about my CF and not put up so many walls…” states Victor.
-    Victor now believes in being open about his CF and does his aerosol therapies at work. “With the American Disabilities Act people cannot discriminate”
-    “Know your limitations with CF and be realistic in what you do in the career world,” states Victor.
-    Victor loves singing in the shower and has become a BIG fan of karaoke at least twice a week.
-    Victor’s advice to others with CF; “Do not adopt to CF, let it adopt to you…”
This “LIVING. BREATHING. SUCCEEDING.” Podcast/Vodcast series is the 2nd in a series of 12 made possible through and unrestricted educational grant from Genentech to The Boomer Esiason Foundation.