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Highly rated international speaker and author “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart delivers custom keynote addresses tailored to the needs of your audience. See videos of past speeches, testimonials, and contact information.

e-Patient Boot Camps: For workshops or seminars longer than a speech, see the e-Patient Boot Camp page. Response to the first US edition (NYC) has been great, and other city teams are lining up; I’m also offering private editions and would love to explore “special editions” with content customized to your audience. Send an email.

Recently added events
(see event details below)

• Added 1/30: Private events, 3/19 & 4/16
• Added 1/22: Rich Products, 5/15
• Added 1/20: Medicare Summit, 1/26
• Added 1/12: MedSeek, 2/23-24; Kidney Cancer Canada, 4/21; The Alliance, 5/1; SSM, 5/23
• Added 1/11: HIMSS 2/18-21; World Choir Games, July; tentative May 14–15
• Added 12/19: Boot Camp New York! 1/27/12; MIT Media Lab, January
• Added 12/15: Methodist Hospital, 4/24; Lucerne 3/31

Winter 2012

• January 30, Washington: Military Health System annual conference. Details TBD.

• February 2, Washington: Military Health System annual conference. Details TBD.

• February 3, San Francisco: The Leadership Institute. Private keynote.

• February 9-10, Charleston: Nursing and Physician Leadership Congress. Opening keynote.

• February 14, home: Singing Valentines in a barbershop quartet!

• February 18-24, Las Vegas: HIMSS annual conference. Guest of the Dutch delegation and of MedSeek.

• March 2, Washington: Aspen Institute healthcare innovation paper.

• March 6-7, Orlando: Florida Health Care Coalition annual meeting, “The Healthcare (R)evolution: Best Practices in Patient Engagement.” Keynote; event advisor.

• March 10, San Diego: AMGA (American Medical Group Association) Annual Conference. Keynote.

• March 9-13, Austin TX: South By Southwest Interactive. Title & blog post: “Let Patients Help: Why Healthcare Must Wake Up”

• March 13-16, Buffalo: P2 Collaborative of Western NY. Annual meeting. Keynote.

• March 19, New York: Private event.

Spring 2012

• March 31, Lucerne, Switzerland: Private event with IKF.

• April 1-3, Maastricht, Netherlands: TEDx Maastricht 2012

• April 4-8: Netherlands. Details TBD

• April 16:
  • Boston Marathon – my daughter’s running for the first time!
  • New York: private event.

• April 21, Toronto: Kidney Cancer Canada – Keynote

• April 24, Houston: Methodist Hospital. Keynote

• April 28, Europe: Reserved – TBD

• May 1, Madison: The Alliance

• May 2, Waltham MA: Harvard Medical School CME course: Patient-Centered Computing and eHealth: Transforming Healthcare Quality. Faculty

• May 3-4, Greenville, NC: Greenville Hospital - Details TBD

• May 8, La Vista, NE: Nebraska Healthcare Quality Forum (hosted by CIMRO of Nebraska)

• May 14-15, Buffalo: Rich Products Annual Health Fair. Keynote.

• May 17, Maine Health: Jack Wennberg and e-Patient Dave Talk Shared Decision Making. Informal live conversation.

• May 18-21, San Francisco: Conference for Global Transformation. Conference team.

• May 23, St. Louis: SSM Healthcare Leadership Conference. Keynote.

• June 4-5, Chicago: ASCO (oncology) convention. Panelist.

• July 6-11, Cincinnati: World Choir Games. Baritone. See blog post.

Summer 2012

• Sept. 20, mid-Atlantic: Reserved – details TBD

Fall 2012

• Oct. 7, midwest: Reserved – details TBD

• November, Hamburg, Germany. Confirmed; details to come.

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.
• 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 – Redefining Patient Centred Care: What Does It Really Mean? 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
• July 22, 2010, Washington: PCPCC Stakeholder Meeting. Patient advocate; attendance sponsored by PCPCC. See the archived presentations.
• 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.
• September 15, 2010, Montreal: Private event.
• September 20, 2010: Vertex Pharmaceuticals e-Patient Advisory Board, Cambridge
• September 22, 2010:
  • St. Paul: Private Event
  • Minneapolis: Private Event
• September 23, 2010, Rochester, NY: Worksite Health Alliance of Greater Rochester, Keynote. See event summary and registration.
• September 24-25, 2010, San Diego: Proleukin Patient Summit. Advisory Board member and keynote speaker.
• September 28-29, 2010, Philadelphia: e-Patient Connections 2010, Keynote and book signing.
• September 30, 2010, Boston: US Army Medical Department Physician Champion Conference. Plenary address to physicians deeply committed to electronic medical records.
• October 6-8, 2010, San Francisco: Health 2.0. Patients 2.0 panelist.
• 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 – 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 21-22, 2010, Boston: Connected Health Symposium.
  • 10/21, 10-11: Panel discussing opening keynote by BJ Fogg.
  • 11-12: Book signing at Harvard Coop exhibit.
  • Noon ET: ONC Webcast on Patient & Family Engagement.

• October 22-23, Cambridge MA: MIT Alumni Association. Addressing alumni luncheon; receiving service award.
• October 25, Durham, NC: Duke University Institute on Care at End of Life. Keynote.
• October 26 – 29, San Diego: TEDMED. Analyst for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (Can I say “Woot”?)
• November 2, Portland OR: OCHIN (Oregon’s Regional Extension Center). Keynote.
• November 3, Los Angeles: Zocalo Public Square. Panel.
• November 4, Boston: Medically Induced Trauma & Support Services (MITSS) annual dinner and auction. Opening speaker; auctioning copies of my book.
• November 6, Austin: American Academy of Private Physicians.
• November 8-9, Boston: Eye For Pharma, Boston – eMarketing. Panelist; signing books.
• November 8, Weston MA (evening): “The Regis Lectures: Current Topics in Health Professions.” Opening speaker in a new lecture series.
• November 15-16, 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.
• November 23, Boston: Aligning Forces for Quality Consumer engagement framework. Attending.
• December 3, Wellesley: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. HPHC was my insurance company when I was sick, and treated me great. I’ll be addressing an internal employee meeting.
• December 7 – 8, Orlando:Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Forum. Special Interest Keynote with Dr. Danny Sands.
• December 9, Brentwood, Tennessee: Aegis Healthcare (private meeting). Keynote.
• December 12-17, Salzburg, Austria: Salzburg Global Seminar: “The Greatest Untapped Resource? Informing and Involving Patients in Medical Decision Making.” Participant; gave a short talk.

Past events – 2011

• January 5, 2011, Boston area: Health IT meeting (private).
• January 15, Raleigh-Durham (via Skype): National Association of Science Writers Science Onlineconference. Participating in panel with e-patients.net co-founders Joe & Terry Graedon, 2-3 pm.
• January 19, Boston: Northeast Home Health Leadership Summit. Closing address for day 1, 4pm. Sponsored by Home Care Association of New York State.
• January 24: Visiting Nurse Association of Care New England annual meeting, Warwick, Rhode Island.
• January 26, Washington: Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Research and Policy Forum.Participant.
• January 26, Washington: Military Health System Conference: The Quadruple Aim: Working Together, Achieving Success. Gaylord National Conference Center. Keynote, 3 pm 1/26.
• January 31: Society for Particpatory Medicine quarterly board meeting.
• February 4, Boston: Private meeting.
• February 7-9, New York: e-Pharma Summit (book signing with Klick Pharma); panel 2/8
• February 14, home: delivering Singing Valentines with my quartet.
• February 15-16, Washington: National Integration Academy Council meeting (project of AHRQ).
• February 18, Orlando: Prova Education symposium “Integrated Management of Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma”at ASCO conference.
• March 3-4, Washington: Institute of Federal Health Care policy meeting. Participant
• March 9, Boston:
  • Recording an interview (with Dr. Danny Sands) for People’s Pharmacy radio show to be aired later.
  • Massachusetts General Hospital – Patient Safety Awareness Week. Keynote.
• March 13, Philadelphia: “Authors and Experts” dinner, Thomas Jefferson University. Featured author; book signing. In association with Population Health Colloquium.
• March 24, London: Announcement of the Salzburg Statement on Medical Decision Making. British Medical Journal, Tavistock Square. Participant.
• March 25, Copenhagen: Seminar on Common Strategy for IT support for Patient Empowerment. Keynote.
• March 26, Boston: New England Quality Care Alliance. Keynote.
• April 4, Netherlands: TEDx Maastricht “Fueling the next revolution in Medicine & Health” - keynote
• April 6, Jerusalem, Israel: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas of Online Medicine. Speaker.
• April 7-9, Lucerne, Switzerland: Institute for Communication & Leadership (IKF). Meetings, lecture Saturday.
• April 11-12, Copenhagen: Danish Society for Patient Safety Conference. Keynote Monday with Dr. Danny Sands. Program here(PDF).
• April 14, Austin: Texas Library Association Annual Conference. Keynote.
• April 15, Seattle:
  • Ragan Communications / Swedish Hospital Social Media conference. Closing keynote, 11 a.m.
  • Mayo Clinic Social Media Advisory Board Meeting, afternoon
• Thursday, April 21, Washington: Health IT Certification/Adoption Workgroup hearing on usability of EHRs. Public meeting (as are all HHS policy meetings) at Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW. 9am to 5pm.
• April 25, Philadelphia: National Board of Medical Examiners – meeting to discuss Participatory Medicine. With Dr. Danny Sands and NBME staff.
• April 27, Derby, CT: Patient Centered Accountable Care - live event & webcast, hosted by Griffin Hospital and Planetree. Attending.
• May 3, New Jersey: Private client event with my client Klick Pharma.
• May 10-15, Stanford: FutureMed (Singularity University). Faculty, 5/13.
• May 14, Stanford: TEDx Silicon Valley. Attending.
• May 16-18, St. Paul: Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement annual colloquium. Workshop leader on 16th.
• May 20-22, San Francisco: Conference for Global Transformation.Conference production team.
• June 7, Washington (evening): Regina Holliday’s Walking Gallery.
• June 8, Washington: Healthcamp DC. Unconference for health IT innovation.
• June 9, Natcher Library, Bethesda MD: HHS Health Data Initiative Forum. Attending, hope to participate.
• June 10, Washington: HHS Healthcare Innovation Summit. Invited participant.
• June 14, Washington: Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference. Panelist, 3:45-5:15
• June 15-17: private meeting
• June 19-22, Maastricht, Netherlands: 6th International Shared Decision Making conference. Speaker and research partner panelist.
• June 27-28, Denver (via phone): National Integration Academy Council meeting (project of AHRQ).
• July 5, Bilbao, Spain: Pacientes y profesionales en la Web 2.0(Patients and Professionals in Web 2.0)
• July 6-7, Barcelona: Private meeting.
• July 12, San Francisco: MIT Alumni Club, University Club.
• July 13-14, Oakland: Kaiser Permanente National Quality Conference. Keynote.
• July 15-17, Cambridge: O’Reilly Media Health FOO Camp. Participant.
• July 19, via Skype: HCA - internal meeting: mini-kickoff speech
• July 20-21, Atlanta: National Coordinator for Health IT – Meaningful Use workshop. Plenary speaker.
• July 27, 1 p.m. ET, online: TED Conversation (live one-hour event; click for archive)
• July 30 – August 2, Lake Tahoe: American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation Forum. Patient participant.
• August 3-4, Twin Cities: National Coordinator for Health IT – Meaningful Use workshop. Plenary speaker and panelist.
• August 9, Washington: NeHC Consumer Consortium full meeting. Steering Committee.
• August 10-11, Los Angeles: National Coordinator for Health IT – Meaningful Use training. Plenary speaker.
• August 16-17, St. Louis: Health Literacy Missouri. Consultation on consumer engagement.
• August 30: Dartmouth Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice. Patient advisor, speaker
• September 8, Cleveland Clinic: Aetna Leaders Conference. Keynote.
• September 9, Boston: Best Doctors, Inc. – private meeting
• September 11-13, Rochester MN: Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation - Mayo Clinic Transform 2011 symposium. Plenary speaker and panelist.
• September 14: Mayo Clinic School of Dental Specialties. Grand Rounds.
• September 14, evening: Private event – guest speaker on national sales team call.
• September 15, Cincinnati: Care About Your Care – Cincinnati. Keynote.
• September 19-20, Philadelphia:
  • SxSH - Shwen Gwee’s social media health care unconference. Keynote.
  • Digital Patient Bill of Rights – one of 20 patients in dialog led by Klick Pharma, HealthCentral, and Digital Health Coalition
  • e-Patient Connections 2011. Gave opening welcome statement.
• September 21, Bethesda: AHRQ National Meeting. Panelist as part of NIAC team.
• September 24-30, Nijmegen (Wikipedia):
  • Tuesday morning: Video interview (post here)
  • Tuesday evening: e-Patient Workshop (post here)
  • Wednesday: e-Patient Boot Camp EU. Full day seminar, part of REshape Academy at Radboud University Nijmegen (UMC St. Radboud).
  • Thursday: departmental meetings about patient engagement and social media
• October 6, Chicago: Merge Healthcare “Merge Live” user conference. Keynote.
• October 7, Columbus: The Ohio State Medical Center P4 Conference. Panel moderator.
• October 14, Buffalo: P2 Collaborative of Western New York. Keynote: “Patient-Centered Health and Health Care.”
• October 17-21, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN:
  • 17-19: Ragan / Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. Closing keynote.
  • 19-20: Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media (MCCSM) meeting. Advisory board member.
  • 20-21: MCCSM Residency. Faculty / advisor.
• October 25-28, San Diego: TEDMED. Participating (in audience) as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation “Pioneer” observer.
• October 31, Denver: University of Colorado Division of Family Medicine – Levitt Distinguished Speaker Series.
• November 7, online radio: Stupid Cancer Show. Guest at 8:45 pm ET.
• November 9-11, Washington: Aligning Forces for Quality annual conference. (A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project.) Keynote and closing panel.
• November 10, Salt Lake City (via satellite): Beacon Community Learning Session.
• November 16: St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition Annual Meeting. Keynote.
• November 29: WNPR radio interview for broadcast in early December.
• December 6-8, New Orleans: National Integration Academy Council meeting (project of AHRQ). See post here.
• December 9, Buffalo: Private event.
• December 11, 4 pm (Sunday): WNPR Conversations on Health Care (Twitter @CHCRadio). Radio interview
• December 15, Washington:
  • Aspen Institute health innovation team – private meeting
  • ONC advisory panel meeting.
• December 16, Cambridge: Patients Like Me journal club. Lunch address.

Past events – 2012

• January 13-14, Buffalo: Two special events with P2 Collaborative of Western New York.
• January 17, Cambridge: MIT Media Lab - Health and Wellness Innovation Workshop. Mentor.
• January 23-24, Birmingham: MedSeek Consulting.
• January 26, Washington: Medicare Innovation Summit. Attending.
• January 27, New York:  e-Patient Boot Camp #002, Manhattan! Register here.