SPM in Real Life: Spring ’ 18

NEW MEMBERS: Spring ’18 Brief bios/plugs for new members (extracted from the Introduce Yourself Connect Community) Katherine Infantes-Cordova, a bilingual patient liaison passionate about improving the patient experience, is eager to take part in eliminating health inequities and empowering patients to be proactive in their health. Leah Jones has a background in consumer public relations and social media. Her company, Natiiv Facilitation, offers independent focus group moderation, event facilitation, and patient engagement projects. She advocates about fibroids and the challenges people struggling with their weight face in our healthcare system. Kistein Monkhouse, MPA founded Patient Orator to improve health care by raising the voices of those affected by health care inefficiencies. Currently, Ms. Monkhouse is working on a project to improve the patient experience via a mobile health application. Esther Schorr and her husband, Andrew, lead Patient Power, a growing online community that provides cancer patients and their loved ones with news that they can use to be active participants in their own healthcare decisions. Dana Deighton brings professional experience in marketing, membership, and corporate partnerships and personal experience as a caregiver, advocate, and unsuspecting patient as a consequence of cancer.   Tarah Knaresboro designs voice interaction at Emmi/Wolters Kluwer, where her responsibilities include engaging people in preventive health, helping pat...
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