Past Events

This is the archive of past events, through 2015.
More recent and upcoming events are on the Schedule page.

2008-2009

• October 2008, Boston: Connected Health (with Danny Sands): “Illness in the Age of ‘e'” Hosted by Mike Barrett.
• February 2009, Palm Springs: TEPR+ 25th Annual Conference (with Danny Sands): “Illness in the Age of ‘e’.” Hosted by Peter Waegemann.
• April 2009, Boston: Health 2.0 Meets Ix. Panelist and “balcony speaker.” Hosted by Matthew Holt and Josh Seidman.
• May 2009, Washington: Center for Democracy and Technology. Think-tank meeting in health data privacy and sharing. Hosted by Deven McGraw.
• June 2009, Washington: National eHealth Collaborative board meeting. 24 minute address (video on e-patients.net) to board. Invited by Steve Findlay, Consumers Union.
• June 2009, Washington: Privacy Committee of NCVHS, hearings on Meaningful Use. HHS committee meeting on definition of meaningful use. Hosted by Maya Bernstein, J.D., HHS Privacy Advocate
• July 2009, Washington: Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative annual consumer advocacy day. Hosted by Edwina Rogers, PCPCC president.
• Wednesday, Sept. 16, Toronto: HealthCamp Toronto (Unconference) Hosted by Carlos Rizo and Neil Seeman.
• Thursday-Friday, Sept. 17-18, Toronto: Medicine 2.0 Conference. Opening keynote address: “Gimme My Damn Data!” Hosted by Gunther Eysenbach.
• Monday, October 5, Oakland: HealthCamp SFBay (Unconference)
• Tuesday-Weds, Oct. 6-7, San Francisco: Health 2.0 Panelist. Hosted by Matthew Holt.
• Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 21-22, Boston: Connected Health Symposium. Co-presenting with Dr. Danny Sands: “Revisiting a Data Gaffe, Six Months On: What’s Been Learned, What’s Changed — and What Still Needs To.” Hosted by Mike Barrett and Joe Kvedar.
• Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 26-27, Philadelphia: ePatient Connections 2009. Presentation Monday afternoon. Hosted by Kevin Kruse, Kru Research.
• Monday, November 9, New York: Paley Center for the Media workshop on public media’s involvement in public health. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation’s Freedom of Expression program.
• Tuesday, Nov. 10th, Alexandria VA: 5th Annual World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT). Panel led by Ted Eytan MD: “Beyond the PHR: Promoting participation at all levels: internal and external; patient, family, community,” with cancer widow Regina Holliday and Holly Potter, Vice President for Public Affairs and National Stakeholder Management, Kaiser Permanente.
• Thursday, December 3, Boston: Medical Grand Rounds at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (with Danny Sands, MD, MPH)
• Monday, December 7, San Francisco: Quantified Self Show&Tell at Wired. Topic: “The Quantified Patient.”
• Tuesday, December 8, San Francisco: HIMSS regional meeting at Microsoft, 835 Market St, noon. $25 HIMSS members, $55 non-members, $35 HFMA members.
• Monday, December 14, Washington: CPeH (Consumer Partnership for eHealth) Patient Engagement Forum: How Access to Information Can Empower Patients and their Caregivers. At National Partnership for Women & Families .
• Tuesday, December 15: eHealth Initiative – Webinar on Participatory Medicine, 3 pm.

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 Health Roundtable 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); reservations required. Radisson Hotel, 3131 Campus Drive.
  • Visiting CaringBridge headquarters!
• Saturday, May 8, 2010: Mayo Clinic Medical Edge Radio with 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.”
• 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.

2011

• January 5, 2011, Boston area: Health IT meeting (private).
• January 15, Raleigh-Durham (via Skype): National Association of Science Writers Science Online conference. 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 Participatory 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 atRadboud 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.

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.
• February 2, Washington: Military Health System annual conference. Plenary panel on patient engagement.

• February 3, San Francisco: The Leadership Institute. Private keynote.
• February 9-10, Charleston: Nursing and Physician Leadership Congress. Opening keynote.
• February 18-24, Las Vegas: HIMSS annual conference. Guest of the Dutch delegation and of MedSeek.
  • 2/19: addressing the Dutch delegation: “Bridging the Gap between IT and Participatory Health”
  • 2/21 & 22: speaking at booth 1345, SPM corporate member MedSeek – 3:30-4:00
  • 2/22: Lunch meet-up of SPM members at MedSeek booth, 12:30
  • 2/23: eCollaboration Forum, 1 pm: Venetian hotel, Casanova 502. Panel.
• March 5, Orlando: e-Patient Boot Camp #003, for attendees at Florida Health Care Coalition’s “(R)evolution” the next day
• 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. Closing plenary.
• March 15-16, Buffalo: P2 Collaborative of Western NY. Annual meeting. Keynote.
• March 19, New York: Private event.
• March 21, 1 p.m. ET: National Patient Safety Foundation webcast
• March 27-31, Lucerne, Switzerland: Four events with IKF

• April 1-2, Maastricht, Netherlands: TEDx Maastricht 2012. Not speaking – participating.

• April 3, Nijmegen, Netherlands: e-Patient “question & answer evening,” similar to last year’s.

• April 10-13, Washington DC: TEDMED. Patient Representative.

• April 16:
  • Boston Marathon – my daughter’s running for the first time!
  • New York: private event.
• April 19-20, Buffalo: P2 Collaborative of Western NY – work session and videotaping.
• April 21, Toronto: Kidney Cancer Canada. Keynote.

• April 24,
  • Houston: Methodist Hospital. Keynote.
  • eHI Webinar, 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET, Presenter.
• April 28, Oporto, Portugal: TEDx O’Porto.

• May 1, Madison: The Alliance annual seminar: “Getting to E: the e-Patient of the Future.” Opening keynote.
• May 3, online: ONC data quality webinar, 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET. Speaker.
• May 3-4, Greenville, SC: Greenville Hospital, opening a new medical school in the fall. Speaker.
• May 8, La Vista, NE: Nebraska Healthcare Quality Forum (hosted by CIMRO of Nebraska).Keynote.
• May 9, San Mateo, CA: Oracle Health Sciences Innovation Forum. Speaker.
• 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.
  • DC: Kanter Learning Health System Summit. Speaker.
• May18-20, Cambridge, MA: O’Reilly Media Health FOO Camp. Participant.
• May 23, St. Louis: SSM Healthcare Leadership Conference. Keynote.
• June 4:
  • Washington: The Walking Gallery meetup (Kaiser Permanente Total Health Center, Union Station). Participant.
  • DC: Private Event. Participant.
• June 5, Chicago: ASCO (oncology) convention. Panelist.
• June 5-6:
  • Washington: ONC’s Health Data Palooza III. Participant.
  • Washington: ONC’s Health Data Palooza III – 5:00 pm Happy Hour. Moderator.
• June 7, DC: Expert Roundtable: Patient Engagement in Cancer Care. Participant.
• June 7-10, Cambridge: 40th Reunion!
• June 13, Brooklyn Park, MN: Minnesota TIGER Nursing Collaborative: Engaging Consumers in Using Health Information Technology (HIT). Keynote.
• June 19-20, DC: National Integration Academy Council (NIAC) meeting (project of AHRQ). Participant.
• June 21-July 6: Vacation
• July 12, Chicago: The Leader’s Board Roundtable. Discussion Leader.
• July 22-26, Salt Lake City: Tribal Best Practices Conference. Keynote.
• July 28-31, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA: American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation Forum. Patient Participant.
• August 3, Salt Lake City: Assoc. for Utah Community Health (AUCH) Annual Conference. Keynote, via Skype.
• August 14-15, Cambridge: National Quality Colloquium, Harvard.
  • Chairing half day mini-summit on patient engagement
  • My talk: “What if Duane Smith Had a Shared Care Plan? Engaging Families in Safer Care.”
• August 16, Buffalo: Aligning Forces for Quality “Partnering with Patients.” Keynote.
• August 19-21, Orlando: VeHU (Veterans eHealth University) web seminar day. Presenter 9/21
• August 28, Columbus: Aspen Institute Health Innovation Project. Public forum to discuss paper published last spring. (Co-author; panelist)
• Sept. 6, So. Central PA: Aligning Forces for Quality “Partnering with Patients.” Keynote.
• Sept. 11, Seattle, WA: Puget Sound Health Alliance “Your Voice Matters.” Keynote.
• Sept. 13, Boston: Leadership Institute. Keynote.
• Sept. 14, DC: PCORI Patient Engagement Working Group face-to-face meeting.

• Sept. 15-16, Boston: Medicine 2.0 Congress. Advisory board; closing keynote.
• Sept. 17-18, Maine: Athena Health “MDP” (More Disruption, Please!) Attending.
• Sept. 19, Manchester, Maine: Manchester, Maine: Aligning Forces for Quality “Partnering with Patients.” Keynote
  • Sept 20: Good Day Maine TV interview
• Sept. 21-23, Kansas City:
  • Sept 21, Kansas City: Aligning Forces for Quality “Partnering with Patients.”Keynote.
  • Sept 21-23, Kansas City: A new conference, to be hosted by Cerner: Regina Holliday’s“Partnership With Patients.” Speaking.
• Sept. 23, Arlington, VA: Diabetes Innovation 2012. Panelist.
• Sept. 26-28, Michigan:
  • Sept. 26, Grand Rapids: Aligning Forces for Quality “Partnering with Patients.”Keynote.
  • Sept. 27, Detroit: Aligning Forces for Quality “Partnering with Patients.” Keynote.
  • Sept. 28, Lansing: Cooper and Partners Worksite Wellness conference. Keynote.
• October 4-5, Las Vegas: Dignity Health. Keynote.
• October 7, Mayo Clinic: Midwest Medical Librarians Association. Keynote.
• October 8, Mayo Clinic: Patient Grand Rounds. Speaking.
• October 9, Portsmouth, NH: Disruptivate – my first keynote in the high tech / disruption space. Via GoToMeeting.
• October 9-10, Buffalo: P2 Collaborative of Western NY. Annual meeting. Keynote; moderator of day 2, with Lygeia Ricciardi.
• October 11, DC: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation OpenNotes forum. Discussant.
• October 12, Clinton, NY: Faxton St. Luke’s Campaign for Quality (Hamilton College). Keynote.
• October 19, Bangor, ME: PCMH Pilot Learning Session. Featured Speaker.
• October 24-25, Princeton NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 40th Anniversary.Panelist on new tools for patient decision making.
• October 26, Boston: Connected Health. Panel participant for Society for Participatory Medicine.
• October 29, Amsterdam:KPN Summit. Keynote.

• November 6, Europe:Private event

• November 8, Hamburg, Germany, 11th Annual Partnerships in Clinical Trials (conference).Keynote.
• November 13, San Francisco: Hospital Council of Northern and Central California’s Patient Safety First Exchange. Keynote
• November 15, Twin Cities: U of Minn. Consumer Engagement in Health IT. Speaker.
• November 19-20, Boston: PCORI Board Meeting.
• December 6, mHealth Zone Radio Show (12:00 – 12:30 pm EST; I’m on at 12:20)Guest.
• December 12, DC: AMIA Invitational.Attending.
• December 13-14, DC: National Integration Academy Council (NIAC) meeting (project of AHRQ). Participant.

2013

• January 8, New Jersey: Private meeting.
• January 9, Derby CT: Planetree headquarters.
• January 10, Middletown CT: Community Health Center.
• January 16: Maine Health working group (by teleconference)
• January 24, Humboldt, CA: Aligning Forces for Quality “Partnering with Patients.”Keynote.
• January 29, Columbus, OH: Health Action Council of Ohio annual meeting. Keynote.
• January 30-Feb 1, Cambridge MA: MIT Media Lab Health & Wellness Innovation Workshop.Observer.
• February 6-8, Twin Cities: patient engagement work sessions with three groups
• February 15-16, Boise, ID: St. Luke’s Health System Summit. Closing keynote; staff workshop.
• February 18-19, Buffalo, NY: Special Media Event – to be announced.
• February 21-24: Private retreat.
• February 25-27, Washington:
  • 25-26: Institute of Medicine – patient engagement
  • 27: PCORI social media strategy meeting
• February 27, Washington: Private meeting.
• March 3-6, New Orleans: HIMSS 13 Conference
  • Sunday morning: Holland House, Sheraton – speech (private event)
  • Monday, 4pm: Interoperability Showcase Theater – featured speaker
  • Tuesday, 1-5:30: “Docent” tour guide in interop showcase
• March 7, Napa: California Society for Hospital Risk Management. Keynote speaker.
• March 12, Las Vegas: Dignity Health Patient Engagement Summit.
• March 19, Billings, MT: 2nd Annual Regional Telehealth Conference. Keynote.
• March 21-29, Lucerne, Switzerland:Institute for Communication & Leadership. Meetings, lecture Saturday.
• April 4, Brookline, MA: Harvard Medical School – “eHealth From the Patient’s Perspective.” Lecture in Charlie Safran’s course.
• April 6-8, Holland: TEDx Nijmegen – “The Future of Health” – “fire talk” at end of conference
• April 10-12, Saskatchewan, Canada: Health Quality Council – 2nd Annual Quality Summit. Keynote.
• April 15, Philadelphia: Wharton School of Business. MBA lecture on eHealth, with John Glaser.
• April 17-21, London: BMJ / IHI Quality & Safety in Healthcare 2013.Keynote.
• April 25, Dearborn: Michigan Hospital Association Patient Safety and Quality Symposium. Keynote.
• April 26, East Lansing: Michigan Healthcare Human Resources Association. Keynote.
• May 8, Cambridge, MA (Harvard Faculty Club): Health Policy Seminar for Hematologists.Guest Speaker.
• May 9-10, Kingston, Ontario: KGH Connect, 2013 Knowledge Exchange Conference – Transforming the patient experience. Keynote.
• May 15, Cary, NC: SAS Institute. Health Analytics: From Big Insights to Big Breakthroughs. Keynote.
• May 17, Huntington Beach, CA: St. Joseph Health. Keynote.
• May 17-19, San Francisco: Conference for Global Transformation. Participant.
• May 22: Patient Engagement Webinar. Speaker.
• June 3, Long Beach: 2013 PFCC Conference. Keynote.
• June 11, Virtual Conference: Modern Healthcare. Speaker.
• June 13, Iowa: Iowa Hospital Association. Keynote.
• June 20, Maine: Maine Hospital Association. Keynote.
• July 10-11, National Integration Academy Council (NIAC). Virtual Participant.
• July 25, online: Private webinar.
• August 3-6, Vancouver BC: ABIM Foundation Forum. Participant.
• August 14, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Quality Institute. Keynote.
• August 15, Rhode Island: National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Keynote.
• August 16, Minneapolis-St. Paul: LSS Data Systems (a wholly owned subsidiary of Meditech)Practice Management Forum. Keynote.
• August 22, Wichita: Kansas Hospital Association. Keynote.
• Sept. 4, New Bern, NC: 5th Annual Eastern Regional Patient Safety and Quality Symposium co-sponsored by Vidant Health and Carolina East Health System, Private Event.Keynote.
• Sept. 11-12, Bretton Woods, NH: Orion Health 2013 North American Healthcare Collaborative (open to Orion Health clients only). Keynote.
• Sept. 13, Cambridge MA: Healthcare of the Future Colloquium. Participant.
• Sept. 16, Washington DC: HHS Consumer Health IT Summit.Opening keynote.
• Sept. 17, Hartford: CT Partners for Health (Qualidigm) – Better Health: Everyone’s Responsibility. Keynote.
• Sept. 18, Toronto: Trillium Health Partners. Keynote.
• Sept. 19-20, Cincinnati: Schulman Associates HSP Conference. Keynote with two related sponsored visits.
• Sept. 25, private webinar.
• Sept. 27-29, Palo Alto: Medicine X, Stanford Speaker and moderator.
• Sept. 29-Oct. 1, Santa Clara: Health 2.0.Role TBD.
• Oct 3, Boston: NEHI Innovation Conference.Opening keynote
• Oct. 4, Montreal: World Parkinson Congress. Keynote.
• Oct. 9, Washington, D.C.: Private event. Keynote.
• Oct. 11, Pennsylvania: Hospital & Healthcare Association of Pennsylvania. Keynote.
• Oct. 15, Birmingham MI: National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Keynote.
• Oct. 16-17, Washington, D.C.: Partnership For Quality Care. Keynote.
• Oct. 18-20, Portland, ME: Personal – chorus competition
• Oct. 24, Minnesota: Mayo Clinic Social Media Residency. Participant; possible faculty.
• Oct. 25, Nebraska: Nebraska Hospital Association. Keynote.
• Oct. 26, Boston: SPM Board
• Oct. 31, Boston: Harvard Clinical Informatics Course. Guest lecturer.
• Nov. 1, Tennessee: Tennessee Hospital Association. Keynote.
• Nov. 2-11: “Let Patients Help” Euro Tour 2013
  • Budapest, Nov. 5: Lecture in @Berci’s course at Semelweiss University
  • Athens, Nov. 8-9: Patients In Power conference.
  • Tour continues Nov. 22-25
• Nov. 14, San Antonio, TX: Experian Healthcare. Keynote
• Nov. 17, Washington DC: American Medical Informatics Association annual conference.Opening keynote.
• Nov. 22-25: “Let Patients Help” Euro Tour 2013, continued
  • Nov. 22, Amsterdam: Vintura Annual Life Sciences Event – “Patient Centricity and Engagement.” Keynote and panel.
  • Nov. 25, Belgium: government event.
• Dec. 2, Washington: RWJF Price Transparency Conference. Panelist.
• Dec. 6, California: Dr. Orme Annual Symposium. Speaker.
• Dec. 8-11, Orlando: IHI National Forum. Participant.

Past Events – 2014

• Jan. 15, San Antonio: A2E Annual Conference. Keynote.
• Jan. 16, Virtual Conference: Heartland Kidney Network. Speaker.
• Jan. 20: London. British Medical Journal Partnering with Patients project. Patient Advisor.
• Jan. 27, Kansas City, MO: Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute: PCORI Decision Aid project meeting. Participant.
• Feb. 13-14, D.C.: National Quality Forum Annual Conference. Participant.
• Feb. 19, D.C: The Brookings Institution.Panelist.
• Feb 22, Modesto: Cardiac Symposium – Cardiovascular Update for the Practitioner. Keynote.
• Feb. 23-25, Orlando: HIMSS 14
  • 2/23: Consumer and Patient Engagement Symposium. Keynote and closing remarks.
  • 2/24: Interoperability Showcase. Opening speech (30 min).
  • 2/24: Orion Health “Lunch & Learn” – room 321B.
• Feb. 27-28, Canada: Quality Forum 2014: Inspire. Collaborate. Act, BC Patient Safety & Quality Council. Keynote.
• March 6-9, New Orleans: American Medical Student Association National Convention.Keynote.
• March 14, Massachusetts: DF/HCC Kidney Cancer Survivor Symposium. Attendee.
• March 17, Philadelphia: Wharton School of Business. MBA lecture on eHealth, in John Glaser’s class.
• March 20, Webinar: Krames StayWell. Speaker.
• March 28-30, Fort Worth: High Reliability Organizations. Panelist.
• April 4, D.C.: National Board of Medical Examiners, 100th Annual Meeting. Keynote.
• April 7-8, D.C.: National Quality Forum: Person Centered Care Outcome Measures. Participant.
• April 10-11, Virginia: 2014 VHREF Spring Conference. Keynote.
• April 17-18, Philadelphia: National Board of Medical Examiners task force meeting on Patient-Centered Assessment. Participant.
• April 26-27, Santa Monica: Dignity Health, private event. Keynote.
• May 1-2, San Francisco: Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit by Vendome Healthcare Media. Keynote.
• May 14, Cambridge, MA (Harvard Faculty Club): Health Policy Seminar for Hematologists. Guest speaker.
• May 15-18, San Francisco: Conference for Global Transformation. Participant.
• May 19, Phoenix: Arizona Hospital & Healthcare Association Care Improvement Symposium. Keynote.
• May 28, Dartmouth: New event! TDI Seminar Series at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. Academic seminar: presentation followed by debate and discussion.
• June 2-4, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Medical Center. Speaking.
• June 5, Point Clear, AL: 
  Mississippi Health Association. Keynote.
• June 7-14, Switzerland: IKF’s annual Swiss tour. Multiple keynotes and private meetings; launch of the German edition of “Let Patients Help.” 
• June 17-18, Nashville: American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Keynote.
• June 20, Elkhart Lake, WI: Wisconsin Hospital Association Rural Health Conference.Keynote.
• June 24, Iowa: Telligen (Iowa REC and Quality Improvement Organization). Keynote.
• June 26-27, New Hampshire: Dartmouth Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice.Speaker.
• July 7-8, Victoria, British Columbia: Vancouver Island Health. Keynote and Board Workshop.
• July 13-19, Boothbay Harbor, Maine: vacation and talk on July 17: Boothbay Health & Wellness Foundation “Third Thursday” forum. Guest speaker.
• July 23, Providence, R.I.: Patient Centered Medical Home conference, sponsored by NCQA and Rhode Island Quality Institute. Keynote.
• August 11-14, Melbourne, Australia:
  • August 11: Participatory Health Conference 2014. Keynote and discussion panel.
  • August 12: Health Informatics Conference. Keynote, with Dr. Danny Sands
• August 25-26, Stockholm: Digital Health Days. Keynote.
• August 27, Stockholm: Let Patients Help! – in healthcare and research” – half day workshop with researchers at Karolinska Institutet. Sold out – see event details on EventBrite page.
• September 3-4, Washington: National Integration Academy Council meeting (project of AHRQ).
• September 9, Burlington, Vermont: Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) Summit. Keynote.
• September 17, Nashville: HIMSS Summit of the Southeast. Keynote and workshop!
• September 18, Europe: special event – to be announced
• September 24, Seattle, WA: Seattle Rotary. Speaker – largest Rotary Club in the world.
• September 25, Billings MT: Montana Hospital Association Annual Meeting. Keynote.
• September 27: ESMO european cancer conference – session co-leader.
• October 9, Arkansas: Arkansas Hospital Association Annual Meeting. Keynote.
• October 15, Philippines (via video): The 2014 Bernardino Agustin Lecture, Philippine Society of Medical Oncology
• October 18, DC: American Academy of Nursing Annual Conference. Panel.
• October 20, DC: Community Health Workers: Getting The Job Done in Healthcare Delivery. Workshop conducted by NEHI.
• October 21-23: Mayo Clinical Center for Social Media Summit. Participant.
• October 29, Twitter: #QualityChat tweetchat, with British Columbia Patient Safety & Quality Council (noon Boston time)
• November 1, Kansas City: Cerner Physician Community Meeting. Keynote.
• November 2-3, Los Angeles: Healthcare IT Summit produced by The Channel Company. Opening keynote.
• November 8, Chicago: Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting. Thought Leader session.
• November 9-11, San Diego: Exponential Medicine (formerly FutureMed). Workshop and speech (with surprise)
• November 12: Charlotte, NC. North Carolina / South Carolina Rural Hospital Association. Sponsored by the Duke Endowment.
• November 24, via webcast: Irish Platform for Patients’ Organisations, Science and Industry (IPPOSI). Web chat.
• December 8 & 9, Providence, RI: Brown University’s Executive Master of Healthcare Leadership. Speaker.
• December 16-17, Bethesda: National Integration Academy Council (NIAC) meeting (project of AHRQ). Participant.

Past Events – 2015

• January 7, London: BMJ patient panel meeting
• January 29, Miami: Private corporate event.
• February 9, Washington D.C: DNV GL and Sustainia roundtable on the Future of Healthcare in the US. Participant.
• February 23, Philadelphia: Wharton School of Business. MBA lecture on eHealth, with John Glaser.
• February 26, Las Vegas: Private event: Keynote.
• March 6, Vermont: Private event
• March 9, Orlando: InterSystems Healthcare Leadership Conference. Keynote.
• March 18-19, Augusta, ME: Maine Quality Counts
  • 18: Healthcare Town Meeting
  • 19: Patient Provider Partnership Learning Session. Keynote.
• March 19, Boothbay Harbor, ME: Boothbay Region Health Center Community Evening. Speaking, participating
• March 23-25: Mayo Clinic – Visiting Professorship in Internal Medicine. Announcementhere.
• March 26 Video Conference: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Lecture.
• March 29 – April 4, Switzerland: Ufficio del Medico Cantonale – Sanita Elettronica e Oltre, “e-Health & Beyond”. Keynote.
• April 12-13, Chicago: HIMSS15; InterSystems
  • 12: Private Event: 7:00pm-10:00pm Shedd Aquarium
  • 13: Book Signing: InterSystems booth 961 1:00-3:30pm
• April 18, Newark: International Kidney Cancer Coalition. Keynote and panelist.
• April 23, Toronto: Society for General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. Panelist.
• April 30-May 1, DC: GetWell Network. Roundtable.
• May 7, Toronto:
  • MaRS HealthKick. TED-style talk on innovation.
  • Health Technology Forum: evening chat.
• May 8, Massachusetts: BIDMC/DF/HCC Kidney Cancer Survivor Symposium. Attendee.
• May 12-13, Bethesda: National Integration Academy Council (NIAC) meeting (project of AHRQ). Participant.
• May 15-17, San Francisco: Conference for Global Transformation. Workshop leader.
• May 27, DC: NEHI Advancing Value in Oncology: Opportunities and Challenges for Innovation.Speaker.
• May 28, DC: ANA Healthly Nurse Grand Challenge. Participant.
• June 1, Toronto: eHealth Conference: InterSystems. Speaker & book signing.
• June 2, New Hampshire: Private event. Speaker.
• June 4-6, Grantsville, Maryland: Regina Holliday’s “Cinderblocks” event
• June 7-13, Lucerne, Switzerland: IKF’s annual Swiss tour. Multiple keynotes and private meetings.
• June 16-17, Chicago: National Healthcare Innovation Summit.  Attending.
• June 17, London (via web): The King’s Fund, Digital Health Days Congress. Speaker.
• June 26, Webcast: Rebels At Work, Corporate Rebels United and Change Agent Worldwide,Rebel Jam. Speaker.
• June 29, London: Private event.
• July 17, Boston area: Private corporate event
• July 22, 1 pm ET, web: Phreesia webinar (free registration): Let Patients Help – 45 minutes + 30 minutes Q&A
• August 13-14 D.C.: RWJF National Leader Summit on Integration of Behavioral Health & Primary Care. Participant.
• August 30-Sept. 02, Nijmegen, Netherlands:
  • REshape Hacking Health 2015 hackathon. Judge
  • “Grand Inaugural Rounds” at RadboudUMC Medical School. Speaker
• September 10, Lancaster PA: Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, 2015 Patient Safety & Quality Symposium. Keynote.
• September 11-19, Alaska: multiple events in Anchorage and Soldotna.
• September 23-27, Palo Alto: Medicine X. Speaker at Medical Education event.
• October 1, Webinar: Experience Innovation Network. Speaker.
• October 5, Toronto: Bayshore Healthcare 2015 Leadership Conference. Keynote speaker.
• October 7, online: HealthSparq webinar. Participant; details TBA.
• October 12, New York: Medicine X Pop-Up event. Free – join us all!
• October 20, PA: Private Event. Keynote. 
• October 28, mid-Atlantic: Private Event. Keynote.
• October 29, Wallingford, CT: Connecticut Hospital Association 2015 Nurse Leadership Forum.  Keynote.
• October 29, Boston: Connected Health Symposium. SPM member reception Thursday night.
• November 5, D.C.: American Psychological Association Presidential Innovation Summit. Closing keynote.
• November 10, Sacramento:
  • CalOHIII Transforming Healthcare Summit 2015. Keynote.
  • Health 2.0 Sacramento meetup. Featured speaker.
• November 24, via Skype: @Berci’s meetup in Budapest: Let’s Create Digital Healthcare!Featured speaker.
• November 30, midwest: Private event.
• December 2, Texas: Texas Hospital Association. Keynote.
• December 3, Texas: LaVerne Gallman Distinguished Lectureship in Nursing at University of Texas School of Nursing.
• December 14, Keene, NH: Antioch University New England. Guest Lecture.