Lisa Saunders

Lisa Saunders, parent representative of the Congenital CMV Foundation, has been raising CMV awareness since the death of her 16-year-old daughter Elizabeth in 2006. Born severely disabled by congenital CMV, Elizabeth was unable to walk, talk, sit up, roll over or feed herself. Cortically blind, she was beginning to lose her hearing at the time of her death during a seizure. Lisa recounts Elizabeth's life with her big sister and a series of dysfunctional pets in her memoir,