"I try to reassure everyone who has been affected by this disease that CF isn't the end of the world if you don't want it to be."
The experience of living with cystic fibrosis is markedly different today than it was decades ago. Thanks to the discovery of the CF gene, the availability of effective drug therapies and advances in technology, the 30,000 Americans who deal with the disease day in and day out are living longer and fuller lives. In a word, they are thriving.
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Podcast 80: Victor Roggli - Succeeding in the Career World with CF

Victor Roggli is 58 years old with cystic fibrosis. Victor lives in North Carolina, is married with a family, and works 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 and SUCCEEDING with CF in the career world and in life!

  • Victor was born in Winchester, Tenn., on a farm. He 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," Victor says.
  • Victor attended Rice University, where he majored in biochemistry. He then attended medical school at Baylor in Houston.
  • “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," Victor says.
  • Victor now believes in being open about his CF and does his aerosol therapies at work. “With the American With Disabilities Act, people cannot discriminate.”
  • “Know your limitations with CF and be realistic in what you do in the career world," Victor advises.
  • 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 adapt to CF, let it adapt to you.”

This “LIVING. BREATHING. SUCCEEDING.” Podcast/Vodcast series is the 2nd in a series of 12 made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from Genentech to the Boomer Esiason Foundation.

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