Our Mission
The Unsilenced Movement includes individuals from many diverse walks of life, including former patients, parents, healthcare workers, and mental health professionals.
We’re not here to vilify or condemn healthcare providers. Our mission is the exact opposite: to unify medical organizations and families in hopes of providing better, trauma-informed care to pediatric patients.
Who We Are
Unsilenced is committed to closing the knowledge gap and establishing an equal power balance between pediatric providers and VUR families by highlighting the need for alternative diagnostic measures, standardized protocol for VCUG and legally enforceable standards for obtaining informed consent from pediatric patients and parents.
Join the Unsilenced Movement
Since 2023, our grassroots organization has been dedicated to achieving our five-part mission:
01
Establish standardized protocol for VCUG performance, including consistent criteria for referrals, medical necessity, frequency, and follow-up.
02
Officially retire VCUG as the alleged "gold standard" by consistently establishing safer, equally effective alternatives in pediatric urology, such as ceVUS.
03
Hold healthcare providers accountable for disclosing ALL reasonable information to meet their ethical obligations under the informed consent doctrine.
04
Inform pediatric patients and guardians of alternative care measures when medically appropriate to limit unnecessary trauma, such as VUR corrective valve surgery and other alternative treatments.
05
Prevent unethical providers from advocating AGAINST alternative measures of care that are perfectly appropriate and medically beneficial in many circumstances.