As founding ambassador, Marie has funded the #TALKEndo women’s health care awareness  campaign and knows only too well the impact of endometriosis.

Marie had experienced pain since she was 14, but endometriosis wasn’t diagnosed until she underwent an emergency operation at the age of 30, which lead to a hysterectomy,  and diagnosis of endometriosis and ovarian chocolate cysts. Medication was then proscribed to shrink the remainder of endometriosis.

Marie has only recently shared more on the impact that the debilitating disease has had both on her professional and personal life.

“It’s now time to TALKEndo and do all that we can to support, Professor Andrew Horne and his wonderful team here at Edinburgh University – drive forward this pioneering research that will transform the lives of millions of women here at home and abroad.”