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speaking75x113Dave deBronkart is an accomplished international speaker on responding to challenges with optimism and resourcefulness. He earns top ratings by understanding each audience to deliver the host’s unique objective. More⇒

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book75x113Author of books and numerous articles in journals and magazines, Dave writes as a patient who got great care, an activist for the role of patients, and a voice of the patient’s perspective in the future of care. More⇒

Patient voice advisor

pondering75x113A cancer survivor and former high tech marketer, Dave serves on the BMJ patient advisory panel, was Mayo’s 2015 Visiting Professor in Internal Medicine, and advises on branding and product from the patient perspective. More⇒

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Recent posts

"Cracking the Code: The Real Cost of Health Care"

Do you understand your health costs? NOLA journalists dig in hard

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Regular readers know I’ve long been crusading for price transparency (I call it “visible prices”), so we can spend more wisely on our families’ care and so we can reward innovators who offer quality services at a better price.

That’s the norm in every other industry, but it hasn’t been in healthcare. A new series by investigative reporter Lee Zurik on New Orleans station WVUE, and another by Times-Picayune reporter Jed Lipinsky, are digging into the how and why, and crowdsourcing real-world price information. I appear in Lee’s first episode. Read on ⇒

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Latest Schedule

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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.

Delivering the opening keynote at Medicine 2.0, Toronto, September 2009
Delivering the opening keynote at Medicine 2.0, Toronto, September 2009. Photo: Gunther Eysenbach, Creative Commons BY-SA

Recent additions (details below)

  • May 17: added 10/7-8
  • April 5: added 5/1, 5/10, 5/16, 6/10, 6/25, 7/18, 8/14, 9/25
  • April 2: added 7/25
  • March 22: added 5/9

Spring 2019

Summer 2019

  • June 25, Rome: Private corporate event. Keynote.
  • July 7-11, DC: (not attending, but worth noting:) Alternatives 2019
  • July 18-20, Grantsville MD: #Cinderblocks6 – Regina Holliday’s annual gathering of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare
  • July 25, Pennsylvania: Lehigh Valley Health Network. Keynote with Dr. Danny Sands.
  • August 14-15, midwest: tentative.

Fall 2019

  • September 25-26, Europe: tentative.
  • September 25-27, Scandinavia: tentative.
  • October 7-8, Europe: tentative.
  • December 6, Northeast: tentative.

Past events

Earlier events, 2008-2015, are on the past events archive page.

Past Events – 2016

  • January 8, The White House: Dialogue on Men’s Health.  Panel.
  • January 13-15, Palo Alto: diaTribe Foundation. Executive Innovation Lab on Diabetes and Obesity. Participant.
  • February 16, New Jersey (via Web): The College of New Jersey, New Media and Health Communication Course. Guest lecturer.
  • February 17, Raleigh: ProPatient content production.
  • February. 25-27: Private retreat.
  • March 1-2, Alberta: Alberta Health Services, HPSP 2016 Healthcare Providers Conference.  Keynote.
  • March 5, Trento, Italy: IBA Proteus User Meeting. Keynote.
  • March 8, London: The BMJ Awards judging. Cancer Care Team of the Year category.
  • March 14, San Antonio: 2016 Parenteral Drug Association Annual Meeting. Keynote.
  • March 15, Austin: Dell’s Healthcare Think Tank. Panel.
  • March 24:  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Lecture.
  • March 29, Cambridge, MA: New England HIMSS regional meeting. Speaker. Open to the public; discount or free to SPM members.
  • April 1-2, DC: FHIR Code-a-thon. Part of 2016 Health Data Palooza.
  • April 4-7, London: Private event.
  • April 13, Ontario: eHealth Centre of Excellence, Partnerships in eHealth. Keynote.
  • May 1, Cambridge: MIT Hacking Medicine 2016. Judge
  • May 3, Boston: NEHI One Health Care Summit. Featured speakers Eric Dishman and Susannah Fox. Attendee.
  • May 8-10, D.C.: Health Datapalooza. Attendee.
  • May 11, Sacramento: Indian Health Services California Providers’ Best Practices & GPRA Measures Continuing Medical Education. Keynote.
  • May 12, Newport Beach, CA:  Compassionate Care Coalition of California 8th Annual Conference & Summit. “Ignite, Inspire, Innovate.  Taking Palliative Care to the Next Level.” Keynote.
  • May 18-19, SanDiego: Private event.
  • May 19-21, Grantsville, MD: Cinderblocks3. The Partnership with Patient Continues.  Speaker.
  • May 21, Webcast, live from Cinderblocks (above): IKF, Switzerland. Lecture and e-patient interviews.
  • June 2, Vic, Spain: 3rd University of Vic Health Meeting. Speaker.
  • June 3-5, Brussels: European Cancer Patient Coalition. Speaker.
  • June 10, VT:  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Communications & Marketing Team Retreat.Speaker.
  • June 11-14, New Orleans: American Diabetes Association 76th Scientific Sessions. Consultant to diaTribe.
  • June 14, Shanghai, via video: Private event. Speaker.
  • June 22, Boston: Harvard Medical School: Rogue Therapeutics. Closing Keynote.
  • June 26-29, Geneva Switzerland: Nursing Informatics 2016 Congress. Opening keynote – open to the public!
    • June 27: Health Information Technologies for Geriatrics: The Big Picture.Panelist.
  • June 28, Europe: Private event. Keynote.
  • July 14-15, D.C.: Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Steering Committee.  Advisory.
  • July 26, Southeast: Private event. Keynote.
  • August 8, Concord, NH: Foundation for Healthy Communities. Keynote speaker.
  • August 14, San Diego: AADE16 Pre-Diabetes Day (American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting)
    • Brief statement at end of Donna Ryan’s keynote
    • Panelist presenting on e-patient communities, 9:15
  • August 17-19, Orlando: IEEE EBMC ’16. The Quantified Self: Visions for the next decade of persistent physiological monitoring.
    • 8/18, 1:30 pm: panel presentation: “I Barely Survived Cancer and Nobody Knows Why”
    • 8/19, 8 am: session on e-health papers – co-chair
  • August 25, Boothbay Harbor, ME: Boothbay Region Health Center. Speaking, participating
  • September 3, Switzerland: Hirslanden National Academy, private event. Speaker.
  • September 13, Columbus OH: Aultman Hospital. Independent Hospital Network Board Retreat. Speaker.
  • September 20, Bretton Woods, NH:  New Hampshire Hospital Association. Speaker.
  • September 20, 8:30 pm ET: guest on the weekly #HCLDR (Health Care Leaders) Twitter chat! 
  • September 21, Boston: HealthXL Global Gathering: Behavior Change, Chronic Disease Management, Patient Engagement. Speaker.
  • September 25-28, Santa Clara: Health 2.0 10th Annual Conference. Participant in patient awards.
  • September 29, virtual speech, Spain.  Participant.
  • September 30, Newton, MA: 9th Annual Kidney Cancer Symposium. Participant.
  • October 18-19, San Diego: MedCity News. Engage, Innovation in Patient Engagement. Keynote.
  • November 2, Denver: Colorado Hospital Association. Keynote speaker.
  • November 15, Chicago: Private event. Keynote.
  • November 17-18, Amersfoort, NL: Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. 50th Conference of the Dutch Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Speaker.
  • November 23, via webcast: University of Southern California. Lecture.
  • November 23-27: Thanksgiving holiday.
  • November 28-29, Chicago: Insight Night at RSNA. Speaker.
  • December 1: Private advisory meeting.
  • December 6-7, Washington D.C.: National Integration Academy Council (NIAC) meeting (project of AHRQ). Participant.
  • December 6, Washington D.C.: Leapfrog Group Annual Meeting. Speaker.
  • December 12, Washington D.C.: RTI PCOR advisory meeting. Participant.

Past events – 2017

    • January 6, Las Vegas: Digital Health Summit at CES: “Confronting the Sleep Epidemic Head-on.” Speaker and panelist.
    • January 9, webcast: Rotman School of Management. Lecture.
    • January 27, Orlando: Society for Simulation in Healthcare – “Patients: The Heart of Simulation” Research Summit. Opening keynote.
    • January 28, Dallas: Commission for Case Manager Certification New World Symposium. Final day’s keynote.
    • January 31, NH: Dartmouth Giesel School of Medicine. Guest lecture.
    • February 19-22, Orlando: HIMSS 2017
      • Monday 2/20 1:00pm: Dell Meetup at the Tweetup, Healthcare Consumerism. Participant.
      • Monday 2/20 4:00pm: Connected Health forum in the Philips Booth. Speaker.
      • Interoperability Showcase. Participant.

Past events – 2018

Past events – 2019

  • January 24, York, PA:  WPN LIFT Collaborative Meeting. Keynote.
  • January 31, UMC Gröningen, Netherlands: All About Data. Closing keynote.
  • February 1-2, Switzerland: Private meetings
  • February 5, Vienna: DIA Europe 2019. Opening Keynote.
  • February 7, Budapest: Consulting and social media work day with Medical Futurist Dr Bertalan Mesko.
  • February 10, Ft. Lauderdale:  Pri-Med Annual Conference South.  Keynote with Dr. Danny Sands.
  • February 11-14, Orlando: HIMSS Interoperability Showcase.
    • Feb. 13, 9:45am – 10:15am HL7 booth 4849. Speaker.
    • Feb. 14, 11:10am HL7 booth 4849.  Speaker.
  • February 21, Webinar: National Network of Libraries of Medicine. CE Lecture.
  • March 27 & 28, D.C.: Health Datapalooza. Participant.
  • April 2, Berlin: Private event. Keynote.
  • April 13, Hyannis: Competing with my chorus in the Northeast District barbershop harmony society competition
  • April 18, Boston: Tufts Medical Center Speaking Series. Keynote.
  • May 1, Boston: Patient Experience Symposium – co-leading SPM pre-conference workshop on participatory medicine
  • May 3, Houston: Pri-Med Annual Conference Southwest. (continuing education for primary care) Keynote (and song!) with Dr. Danny Sands.
  • May 7, Scottsdale, AZ: NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs) Annual Technology & Business Conference. Keynote.
  • May 9, Boston: Private corporate event. Keynote.
  • May 10, Boston: Our Bodies Ourselves, 50th anniversary event. Participant.
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