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In the summer of 2025, patients, caregivers, advocates, and clinicians came together to form LifeLineBC after the BC Government announced changes to MSP that would significantly hamper the delivery of virtual group medical care. With real lived experience on the effectiveness and quality of virtual group care, our aim is to fight to protect and preserve the care that many of us rely on for the treatment of a variety of conditions, including chronic pain and complex chronic diseases such as Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia. We are a collective of patients, allied health professionals, doctors, lawyers, advocates, and researchers. Interested in helping? Contact us; we're happy to have more people on the team!
Team Leads
Team Leads
barbara findlay
barbara findlay KC was as co-founder of LifeLineBC. As an activist, barb worked to address injustices including sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. She empowered marginalized people by organizing her communities: she founded numerous advocacy groups, provided hundreds of unlearning oppression workshops, and forged alliances across society. A brilliant legal theorist, litigator, and legal strategist, she was one of the most consequential lawyers to practice law in Canada. She won numerous precedent-setting cases that advanced equal rights under the law for all Canadians.
She described herself as “a fat old white cisgender queer lawyer with ME and fibromyalgia.” barb was an ME/CFS patient for 8 years. She created art about living with her ME/CFS disability. barb believed strongly that unless we work as hard on the ways we are privileged as we do on the ways we are oppressed, equality will never come.
(Left: oil painting by Rojina Farrokhnejad)
Amanda Kanuka
Amanda is a LifeLineBC mega worker bee and organizer with MLA letter writing campaign experience. She organized and helped lead BC-CLMF patient self directed virtual neuroplasticity practices, all while maintaining her decades of award winning Household CEO skillz. She has participated in all of Dr. Arseneau's offerings since 2014, having been sick on and off for 30+ years.
Kate Holley
Kate Holley is a coordinator extraordinaire, bringing people and information together wherever they’re needed. With a background in communications, advocacy, and community building, she has become a unique asset to the LifeLineBC team. After developing disabling Long COVID symptoms, Kate experienced first-hand just how life-changing the BC-CLMF clinic’s support can be – it has saved her many times over. She is deeply passionate about fighting for its future so that thousands more like her can continue to access the life-saving, high-quality care they deserve.
Kayli Jamieson
Kayli (she/her) is a Long COVID Research Fellow at SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences and a Communication Master’s student living with Long COVID & ME since Dec ‘21. She is also a science communicator and advocate.
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