Christina DiArcangelo is a global healthcare executive, clinical research leader, patient advocate, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and humanitarian whose career and personal mission have been built around one fundamental belief: no one should have to suffer in silence.
For more than two decades, Christina has worked at the intersection of clinical research, pharmaceutical and biotechnology development, healthcare innovation, technology, and patient advocacy. As Founder and CEO of Affinity Bio Partners, she has helped advance clinical development programs while championing an approach to research that places patient safety, access, integrity, and the real-world patient experience at the center of innovation.
But Christina's commitment to advocacy extends far beyond the boardroom.
As Founder, CEO, and Board President of Affinity Patient Advocacy, she has dedicated herself to helping patients and families navigate some of life's most difficult circumstances. Her work is rooted not only in professional expertise, but also in lived experience—including the devastating reality of elder abuse within her own family.
That experience became the foundation for Rescuing Mom.
Rescuing Mom is Christina's deeply personal account of a daughter's fight to protect her mother while confronting elder abuse, mental illness, caregiving challenges, and failures within systems that are supposed to protect vulnerable people. More than a memoir, the book examines what happens when love requires action—and when an ordinary person is forced to find extraordinary strength to protect someone who can no longer adequately protect herself.
Through Rescuing Mom, Christina transforms an intensely personal experience into a broader call for awareness, accountability, compassion, and change. The book challenges families, caregivers, healthcare professionals, community leaders, and institutions to recognize the warning signs of elder abuse, listen when something is wrong, and refuse to allow silence to become a shield for harm.
Her advocacy surrounding Rescuing Mom has grown beyond the pages of the book. The story now serves as an extension of her work to raise awareness of elder abuse prevention, caregiving, mental health, patient protection, and systemic accountability.
Christina's broader work reflects the same philosophy. Across clinical research, healthcare technology, patient advocacy, media, speaking, and humanitarian initiatives, she brings together professional expertise and lived experience to challenge systems, protect vulnerable people, and create meaningful change.
She is also a survivor, a single mother, and a woman who has learned firsthand that advocacy sometimes begins at the moment when remaining silent is no longer an option.
For Christina, Rescuing Mom is therefore more than the story of one mother and one daughter.
It is a call to recognize abuse. A call to protect the vulnerable. A call to hold systems accountable. And, above all, a reminder that one person's decision to speak up can become the beginning of change.
