Schedule

Recently added
(see event details below)

• Added 8/30: Swedish Medical Center, 10/11;
• Added 8/30: Ohio State, 10/15
• Added mid-August: Private events, 9/22, Twin Cities
• Added 8/10: Cleveland HeartLab, 8/15
• Added 8/3: Private event, Montreal, 9/15

Summer 2010

• September 15, 2010,  Montreal: Private event.
• September 16, 2010, Boston MA:  Lucian Leape Institute annual workshop and dinner. Attending.

Autumn 2010

• September 22, 2010:
  • St. Paul: Private Event
  • Minneapolis: Private Event

• September 23, 2010 ,  Rochester, NY:  Worksite Health Alliance of Greater Rochester, Keynote.
  

• September 28-29, 2010, Philadelphia: e-Patient Connections 2010, Keynote and book signing.  Register with my discount code “epat300″ to get $300 off.

• October 11, 2010, Seattle: Swedish Medical Center’s 100th anniversary – pre-conference “Heathcare Innovation in the Age of Social Media.” Opening Keynote.

• October 14, 2010, Las Vegas: Blog World Expo – their first-ever healthcare track! Opening Keynote

• October 15, 2010, Columbus: Ohio State University Medical Center -  Advancing Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory Medicine. Panel led by Michael Milllenson.

• October 18-19, Bridgewater, NJ: Digital Pharma East. Faculty.

• October 21-22, 2010, Boston: Connected Health Symposium.  Attending.

• October 23, Cambridge MA: MIT Alumni Association. Receiving service award.

• October 25, Durham, NH: Duke University Institute on Care at End of Life. Keynote.

• October 26 – 29, San Diego: TEDMED. Analyst for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

• November 4, Boston: Medically Induced Trauma & Support Services (MITSS) annual dinner and auction. Opening speaker; auctioning copies of my book.

• November 8, Weston MA: “The Regis Lectures: Current Topics in Health Professions.” Opening speaker in a new lecture series.

• November 13-16, Washington: American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium. Panelist with Charles Safran MD, Tom Delbanco MD, and Patti Brennan of Project HealthDesign, 10:30-12 on 11/16: “Patient Power from the Clinician’s Perspective.”

• November 17, Danvers, MA: NAMI – patient advocate workshop. (Invitation only.) Keynote, 8:30 a.m.
  

• December 8 – 9, Orlando: Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Forum. Keynote with Dr. Danny Sands.

Winter 2011

• January 19, 2011, Boston: Northeast Home Health Leadership Summit. Closing address for day 1, 4pm. Sponsored by Home Care Association of New York State.

• February 10-11, Houston TX: First annual Patient Participation Conference:  “How to be an e-patient or an e-patient caregiver.”

Spring 2011

• April 4, 2011, Netherlands:  TEDx Maastricht “Fueling the next revolution in Medicine & Health” – opening keynote

• May 17-19, 2011,  Durham, NC: Duke University Institute on Care at End of Life. Participant.

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Past events, 2010

• Monday-Tuesday, January 25-26, 2010: eHealth Initiative’s annual conference, Washington. Panelist.
• Tuesday, January 26: “Health 2.0 Stat- rapid fire presentations from healthcare leaders.” Silver Spring, MD. Presenter.
• Monday-Wednesday, January 25-27, 2010: Medical Device Plug-n-Play workshop, Silver Spring, MD. Plenary speaker.
• February 8-10, Philadelphia: ePharma Summit.Speaking Tuesday 2/9. Sponsored by Klick Marketing
• February 23, Wellesley MA: Rotary Club dinner speaker. Topic: “How I Survived My Death Sentence.”
• February 25, Washington: Health IT Policy Committee,Adoption/Certification Workgroup: hearing on Health IT Safety issues. Omni Shoreham Hotel.
• March 1-4, Atlanta: HIMSS 10th annual congress(Healthcare Information Management Systems Society). Speaking with Kate Christensen MD of Kaiser-Permanente on “Inviting Patients to the Party: Patient Advisory Boards in an IDN.” (Session #128, Tuesday, 2:15-3:15.)Sponsored by KP.
• March 8-12, Boston: Annual Quality Improvement Workshop at Beth Israel Deaconess. My first foray into Lean methodology.
• March 12-16, 2010, Austin, TX: South By Southwest Interactive. Panelist.
• Monday, March 22, Philadelphia: Center for Business Intelligence, 9th Annual Forum on eMarketing for the Bio/Pharmaceutical Industry. Workshop leader.
• Tuesday, March 30, DC: Cultivate the Patient-Centered Medical Home - PCPCC stakeholders meeting.
• Monday, March 29 and Wednesday, March 31: DC Policy Days. Available to schedule meetings; see contact page.
• Tuesday, April 6: Person Centered HealthRoundtable via Cisco Telepresence. Speaker. (Will be in the DC office.) Free to the public, in person or via Webex.
• Tuesday-Wednesday, April 6-7, Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine / FNLM event “The ePatient: Digital and Genomic Technologies for Personalized Health Care”. National Institutes of Health, Natcher Conference Center. Twitter hashtag: #eNLM.
• Thursday, April 8: DC Policy Day.
  Available to schedule meetings; see contact page.
• Thursday, April 15, Waltham MA: Healthcare and Life Sciences 7th Annual Industry Forum,Babson College. Panelist on “The Impact of Social Media on Health Information.”
• Saturday, April 17, Weston MA: Guest lecturer, Regis College Nursing Informatics program. Associate professor Kathleen Donaher.
• Tuesday, April 20, Washington: Meaningful Use Workgroup policy meeting (agenda(PDF)). Public meeting (as are all HHS policy meetings) at Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW. 9 am to 3:30.
• Book launch and jazz show! Join me for a magical musical interlude: April 22, Boston: my sister jazz/blues singer SUEDE at Scullers Jazz Club, 8 pm. As always, the show is about the diva; we’re using the occasion to also celebrate my book, due out in June. Join us!
• Monday, April 26: Webinar “Becoming an e-Patient” (free) – WEGO Health
• Thursday-Friday, April 29-30, Cary, NC: PALS Patient Advocacy Leadership Summit. (PALS is a program of GlaxoSmithKline.)
• Monday-Wednesday, May 3-5, 2010, St. Paul: Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement annual colloquium.
  • May 4: Panelist, “evidence-based medicine vs. experience-based medicine”
  • Keynote May 5: “What e-Patient Dave Wants from Doctors, Hospitals, and Health Plans in a Time of Health Care Reform and Economic Uncertainty.” Hosted by Kent Bottles.
  • Thursday, May 6, 2010
    • 7 a.m.: Lecture to clinicians, Park Nicollet Frauenshuh Cancer Center, St. Louis Park, Minnesota. (Private event.
    • Noon: Plymouth (MN) Rotary Luncheon. Guests welcome ($14); reservationsrequired. Radisson Hotel, 3131 Campus Drive.
    • Visiting CaringBridge headquarters!
• Saturday, May 8, 2010: Mayo Clinic Medical Edge Radiowith Tom Shives, MD.
• Tuesday, May 11, 2010, Toronto: private client event.
• May 13, 2010, Washington: Aligning Forces for Quality national meeting. Panelist: “Using Health Information for Decision-Making: The Consumer Perspective.” (AF4Q is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative.)
• May 17-19, 2010, Orlando: National Patient Safety Foundation’s Annual Patient Safety Congress.Speaker at pre-Congress program (May 17) titled “Community Engagement from the Patient and Family Perspective.”
• May 20, 2010, Boston: Capstone Partners Patient-Centered IT investor event. Speaking with author Jim Champy and others at Microsoft NERD, Cambridge.
• May 22, 2010, Washington: Medical Library Association e-Patient Symposium. Speaking with “73 Cents” artist Regina Holliday on “Participatory Medicine and Consumer Advocacy.”
• May 25 – 27, 2010, Amsterdam: World Congress on IT 2010 – The Challenges of Change.
  • May 25, Keynote speaker in eHealth track’s Transformation Day.
  • May 27, Closing panel on “Declaration of Amsterdam.”
• May 28 – June 2, Europe: second honeymoon / 10th anniversary. Do not disturb. (Yes, the cats have a housesitter.)
• June 3, Washington, DC:  AHRQ Annual Health IT Grantee and Contractor Meeting.  Keynote speaker.
• June 4, New York: private event. (Krames Patient Education’s Health Plan Summit)
• June 7, Waltham MA: Course in Health Law and Business Ethics, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. MD/MBA Dual Degree Program offered in collaboration with Tufts University School of Medicine. Guest Lecture.
• June 15, Boston: Liberty Lectures – Liberty Hotel. Lecture with Dr. Danny Sands: “The New World of Doctor-Patient Partnerships.” Free, but RSVP required: libertylectures@libertyhotel.com.
• June 17, Toronto:  Ontario Hospital Association - Enterprise Risk Management: A “How-To” for Health Care Organizations. Keynote speaker.
• June 18, Newton, MA: Free Kidney Cancer Symposium sponsored by Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center. Details and how to submit questions here.  Speaker, patient coordinator.
• June 26, 2010, Kiawah Island, SC: American Academy of Private Physicians, Regional Summit.  Closing speaker
• Wednesday, July 28: Campaign for Better Care special forum on Improving the System for Delivering Health Care to Older Adults and Their Families, National Press Club. 8-11 a.m. Attending.
• July 28-29, 2010, Philadelphia: Center for Business Intelligence, Bio/Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Forum on Patient Centered Marketing: “How Does the Patient Want to Interact with You?” (Panelist, 9 am Thursday)
• July 29, Washington (evening): “e-Patient Ephemera” showing of Regina Holliday’s paintings at Clinovations, Georgetown.
• Sunday, August 15, 2010, Cleveland: Cleveland HeartLab Summer Symposium. Speaker.
• August 17, 2010, Cambridge: 9th National Quality Colloquium, Harvard. Keynote, 11:15-11:45: “How Engaged ‘e-Patients’ Are Improving Balance in the Patient-Provider Relationship.”
• August 18-19, 2010, Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media. Plenary panel.

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