Katie Niemeyer

Katie Niemeyer, Speaker LLC, United States

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Biography

Katie Niemeyer, speaker, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and CRNA

who relentlessly encourages others to overcome obstacles and

reach new goals. As a teen, Katie nearly died in a hospital burn unit

in St. Louis, Mo., where she suffered from an adverse reaction to

medication, a rare condition called Stevens Johnson Syndrome or

SJS.

Over the last thirty-five years, she has drawn on her lifetime

experiences as a SJS survivor, medical professional, and competitor

to inspire people to attain more out of life and cross their own finish

lines. After winning a competition from athletic apparel designer

Under Armour, Katie started a non-profit, where awareness and

funds are raised to develop new protocols and treatments for

patients facing SJS.

Katie shares not only her harrowing story of defying death at age

16, but the power of what one person can make in another’s life by

just showing up. She is honest and forthright about how personal

traumas propelled her into a career of caring for others with both

compassion and precision as a nurse anesthetist.

When new goals led her to design a product and later, to birth a

new enterprise, she also opened her eyes to a new opportunity

to champion new ways that SJS is diagnosed and treated, and to

inspire all of us to show up for those around us.

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