Committees and Councils

Janet Gunderson

Janet Gunderson is the Consumer Advisory Council representative for Saskatchewan. She and her husband Grant live in Glaslyn and have a grown son and daughter.

Janet taught elementary school for twenty years. In 1999 she was diagnosed with small vessel vasculitis, an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of blood vessels. She has been unable to teach since 1999 due to this disease and she remains on disability. Unrelated to the vasculitis, Janet has been diagnosed with widespread osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease.

Since going on disability Janet has used her time to volunteer within many groups. Janet has been an active volunteer with the Arthritis Society since 2002 by teaching Arthritis Self-Management classes, Chronic Pain workshops, and is a part of the Speakers Bureau. She has also acted as a consumer reviewer with the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group and is a member of the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance (CAPA).

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