The expert
who survived
your system.
Thirty-three doctors. Seven years bedridden. Self-diagnosed, self-rehabilitated — then made Patient-in-Residence at two world-class institutions. I know exactly how systems break people. And how to fix them.
Represented by AAE Speakers Bureau ↗
Radical honesty.
Not inspiration theater.
Most speakers with chronic illness tell you how they overcame it. I'm the one who spent ten years performing recovery while secretly relapsing every few months. What changed wasn't my body. It was my willingness to stop performing.
Revolution
from My Bed
33 doctors. 7 years. No answers. So I built a new system. This talk on radical self-advocacy and patient power became the foundation of everything that followed.
Five ways to
work with me.
Every engagement is bespoke. No off-the-shelf programs. I work with organizations ready to stop performing transformation and start building it.
A talk that doesn't let the room off the hook. Radical honesty about the cost of systemic exclusion — and a structural path forward that leadership can actually use. Works for any industry, any audience size.
- Signature keynote — 60–90 min
- Short talk — 20–30 min
- Fireside chat or panel
- English · Hebrew · German
See You Now
AI is already practicing medicine. The question isn't whether to use it — it's whether it will understand the patient in front of it, or only the data about them. A talk built on lived experience and hard research, for audiences navigating AI's arrival in healthcare, pharma, and patient-facing services.
- Healthcare AI strategy conferences
- Pharma digital transformation summits
- MedTech product & policy teams
- Hospital leadership & C-suite
- 60–90 min · Fireside available
Multi-month engagements and 12-month advisory retainers. Audit, co-design, and sustained implementation — not reports that gather dust. I stay until the change is structural.
- 4-week inclusion systems audit
- 3-month transformation sprint
- 6-month strategic partnership
- 12-month C-suite retainer
- Patient-in-Residence appointment
Max 2 active engagements at any time. Enquire to check availability.
Enquire →Most inclusion programmes don't reach the people they were designed for. Chronic illness is the proof case — invisible, fluctuating, and sitting inside every other identity your DEI work is trying to reach. This workshop uses it as a diagnostic: a stress test that reveals what your inclusion infrastructure can actually hold. Your team leaves with a concrete gap analysis and three structural shifts — not a feeling, not a pledge.
- DEI & inclusion leads who want sharper tools
- HR leadership teams auditing what's not working
- Half-day — up to 30 people
- Full-day intensive with inclusion audit
- Repeatedly the highest-rated session of the day
For clinical teams, patient experience leads, and digital health decision-makers navigating AI implementation. We examine what AI can do, what it cannot, and how to close the gap between algorithmic output and genuine human care. Practical. Evidence-based. Unsettling in the right ways.
- Half-day workshop — clinical or leadership teams
- Full-day with AI empathy audit of existing tools
- Patient Data vs. Patient Experience
- Designing AI That Listens
- When the Algorithm Is Wrong About You
A workshop for teams that have learned to perform fine. We examine the organizational cultures that make honesty about struggle impossible — and rebuild the conditions for genuine psychological safety. Not a feelings circle. A structural intervention with lasting tools. Regularly the session participants reference months later.
- Half-day — teams of up to 40
- Full-day with leadership debrief
- The Cost of Performed Wellbeing
- When "I'm Fine" Is a Policy Problem
- Building Cultures That Can Hear the Truth
30-minute call.
Every engagement starts with a no-commitment conversation. Bring your context — event brief, org challenge, or just a hunch that something needs to change. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.
- No sales pitch — a real conversation
- Workshops, keynotes, or consulting
- Available in English, German, Hebrew
7 Books.
One unflinching voice.
Seven books spanning chronic illness, patient rights, healthcare AI, and organizational systems. An eighth is on the way.
The book that started everything. Seven years. Thirty-three doctors. No answers. This is what happens when a patient stops waiting for permission to understand their own body — and what it means for every person navigating a system not built for them.
Not what they ask for in the appointment. What they are actually trying to say. A practitioner's guide to the gap between clinical language and human experience — and the cost, in outcomes and trust, of leaving it unclosed.
AI is already practicing medicine. Most patients don't know it. Most clinicians don't either. An unflinching examination of how algorithmic systems are reshaping diagnosis, trust, and the patient-physician relationship — from the perspective of someone who has been on the wrong end of both.
The practical companion for clinicians who know something is missing in the room but cannot name it yet. Concrete communication strategies rooted in the reality of what it feels like to be a patient — not a case file.
What most public speaking books teach is performance. This one teaches presence. The difference between a speaker who moves a room and one who merely fills it — written by someone who had to learn how to speak again from scratch.
Remember that thin, silvery film you have to peel off a chicken breast? For centuries, anatomists treated its human equivalent the same way — as inconvenient packaging to be discarded before the real work began. They were catastrophically wrong. This is the book that tells you what they missed.
whole team
Takeda, Boehringer Ingelheim, and AOP Health have purchased copies for hundreds of employees. Bulk orders come with personalized bookplates, custom forewords, and optional virtual Q&A sessions with Roi.
Three interconnected
platforms.
Professional practice, media movement, and education — each reinforcing the others.
Trusted by the
organizations that matter.
Hundreds of keynotes across 27 countries. Retained by global pharma, government ministries, and leading health institutions — not for inspiration, but for structural change.
Clinical training and hands-on healthcare experience — not a researcher looking in from outside, but someone who has operated inside the system as both patient and practitioner.
Featured in major international news outlets across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. The work lands because it is real — and journalists recognize that.
Speaker. Author of 7 books. Founder of 8 organisations. Appointed Patient-in-Residence twice. Certified in organizational development and mental health awareness training.
Let's build
something real.
I don't take every engagement. I take the right ones — organizations genuinely ready to transform, not just perform. If that's you, let's talk.