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The talk your audience
hasn't heard before.

27 countries. 500+ talks. Audiences from hospital boards to medical school cohorts to pharmaceutical executives to patient advocacy summits. I bring the lived patient perspective into rooms that need it most.

Based in

US (travels internationally)

Lead time

8+ weeks preferred

Keynotes

Most requested

The Invisible Patient

What Healthcare Gets Wrong About the People It Serves

Healthcare systems · Medical schools · Health conferences

The defining talk. Built from 15 years inside the patient experience — not observing it, living it. This keynote gives clinical and administrative audiences a direct window into what patients actually experience versus what the system believes they experience. The gap is wider than you think, and more fixable than you fear.

Outcomes

  • ›Understand the concrete failure modes of clinical communication
  • ›Recognize patterns of medical gaslighting and how to interrupt them
  • ›Leave with a framework for building patient trust that isn't performative
KeynoteWorkshopHalf-day training

45–60 min

Constraint is Compass

Building Innovation Within Limitation

Health tech · Pharma · Patient advocacy · Innovation teams

Everything I've built has been built under constraint — of energy, time, physical capacity, and resources. This keynote reframes limitation as a design condition rather than an obstacle. Practical, honest, and grounded in the actual experience of building products when you are also the user.

Outcomes

  • ›Reframe resource constraints as innovation drivers
  • ›Apply constraint-based thinking to product and organizational decisions
  • ›Understand what chronically ill users actually need from products
KeynoteWorkshop

40–55 min

The Algorithm Will See You Now

AI, Medicine, and the Patients Getting Left Behind

Health AI · Digital health · Hospital systems · Policy

Healthcare AI is being deployed at scale. Most of it was built without meaningful input from the patients it will affect most — the chronically ill, the complex cases, the rare disease communities. This keynote examines the risks, the missed opportunities, and what it would actually take to build AI that serves everyone.

Outcomes

  • ›Understand AI bias in clinical datasets and what it means in practice
  • ›Identify the patient populations most at risk from biased health AI
  • ›Develop a framework for patient-inclusive AI development
KeynotePanel moderationAdvisory sessions

45–60 min

Patientpreneur

Why the Best Healthcare Builders Are the Patients Themselves

Health startup ecosystems · VC · Pharma · Patient advocacy

The best products for patients are built by patients. Not because of motivation — because of epistemic access. You cannot fully understand what it feels like to be gaslit by a system, to have 40-minute appointments for 20-year conditions, to manage five specialists who don't talk to each other, unless you've lived it. This talk makes the case — and the practical path.

Outcomes

  • ›Understand the competitive advantage of lived experience in health product development
  • ›Learn how to identify and fund patient-led innovation
  • ›Map the structural barriers patients face when building in healthcare
KeynoteFireside chatPanel

35–50 min

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