Speaker: Casey Quinlan -
Casey Quinlan gave herself the title “Mighty Mouth” on the theory that if you can’t hide it, hang a flag on it.
After getting a breast cancer diagnosis just days before Christmas in 2007, she wrote the Amazon best seller Cancer for Christmas: Making the Most of a Daunting Gift, which tells her story of managing medical care and exhorts everyone to become their own patient advocate.
She’s a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, produces audio and video content for the Society of Hospital Medicine’s The Hospitalist Magazine, and is one of the Disruptive Women in Health Care, an online community of women dedicated to serving as a platform for provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in health and medicine. She has also been named an ePatient Scholar to MedicineX 2013 at Stanford University, and is a member of a federal workgroup on consumer engagement and health IT.
Casey is a former network news field producer who helped cover breaking news across the globe for over two decades, learning all about what makes a great story. She talked her way out of police custody in Saudi Arabia, and did standup comedy in New York for several years – “fear” is not a word in her dictionary.
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