Google Employee Comes Back from Life-Threatening Illness to Lead Conference on How to Be an Empowered Patient Well Known Patient Advocates - Dean Ornish, M.D., Carol Lin, CNN Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Steven Schneider - Speak at the Empowered Healthcare Conference in SF on May 16th, 2009. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2009 A Google employee who falls ill to a mysterious life-threatening illness takes matters into her own hands to find her correct diagnosis and recovers to start a non-profit organization to help empower patients who are marginalized by the healthcare system. The Empowered Healthcare Community is a new Bay Area non-profit that provides patients with information, strategies and skills to work in true partnership with their doctors and nurses to greatly reduce their chances of encountering mis-diagnoses and medical errors. The new organization, The Empowered Healthcare Community, will sponsor the Empowered Healthcare Conference 2009 at the UCSF Mission Bay center in San Francisco for all patients, caregivers, and advocates who want know now how to better navigate and succeed in today's health care world. The event will feature many expert speakers including Dr. Dean Ornish, entrepreneur Jay Tenenbaum, journalist Carol Lin formerly of CNN, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Stephen Schneider. Many other patient and provider speakers will also provide their tips, guidance and advice to conference attendees. "In today's world where patients' choices can have a direct and profound effect on their health, the Empowered Healthcare Conference provides a valuable forum for patients to learn from and support one another towards a path of lasting wellness," said Dr. Dean Ornish. "In healthcare, the patients are the only stakeholders who bear the consequences of our massive healthcare system--the treatments that work, don't work, preserving quality of life and the improvisation and ultimately wisdom it takes to be a successful patient. Conferences like the Empowered HealthCare Conference will focus attention on the most powerful, untapped resource in healthcare today--the successful patient," said Journalist & Advocate, Carol Lin The organization was started by the Google Employee Adriana Boden and Dr. Julia Hallisy, author of the book, "The Empowered Patient" a guide that enables patients and their loved ones to successfully navigate complex medical delivery systems. The conference will feature a series of expert speakers who will teach patients how to:
Tickets are $80 prior to March 30th, 2009, $95 before May 7th. To register for the conference please go to http://www.empoweredhealthcon.com. To learn more about our organization please go to http://www.ehcteam.org. For inquires, please e-mail empoweredhealthcon (at) gmail (dot) com. CONTACT:
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