Now more than ever healthcare systems are striving to offer their patients compassionate and empathetic care.
PRHSB offers carefully curated programs presented by leading experts, powerful personal storytellers, and the latest bestselling authors dedicated to empowering patients and supporting positive change.
Dr. Thomas Fisher
Emergency room physician and author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
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- Inequities in patient care and care accessibility
- First-hand accounts and fresh visions for change
Dr. Michele Harper
Emergency room physician and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Beauty in Breaking
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Societal and racial issues impacting patient experience
- Bringing empathy into the emergency room
Elisabeth Rosenthal, M.D.
Award-winning reporter, former physician, and author of An American Sickness
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Empowering patients to navigate the healthcare system and have a voice
- Redefining the doctor-patient relationship with transparent disclosure
Victoria Sweet, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, prize-winning historian, and author of God’s Hotel and Slow Medicine
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Rethinking what it means for a healthcare system to be efficient
- How current regulations and imperatives affect doctor-patient relationships
Dr. Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize-winning medical journalist and author ofFive Days at Memorial, M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- How health care reform is impacting the patient experience
- Powerful stories of patients during Hurricane Katrina
Pauline Chen, M.D.
New York Times columnist and physician, author of Final Exam
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
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- Doctors as compassionate leaders
- Lost in translation: Improving the patient experience by healing the (language) rift between doctors and patients
