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I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

I've started the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. The big focus is helping people get the correct diagnoses.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.

Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease.