Speaking and keynotes
A patient perspective your clinical audience cannot dismiss
I speak to medical directors, clinical teams and researchers at conferences, symposia and company meetings, in English or Dutch, across the globe.
What you are booking
Your audience has been discussing the patient perspective in meetings for years, usually in the abstract. I am the patient in the room who also knows what an endpoint is, why they chose the one they did, and what it will fail to capture.
That combination changes how the room listens. It is quite hard to file a story away as merely moving when the person telling it is also describing your protocol back to you.
I am not there to make anyone feel guilty. Guilt does not improve a study, and I like these people, because they are the ones who can actually fix this. I am there to give an audience something specific that stays with them the next time they write an inclusion criterion. There is warmth, and there is some dry humour, because a room that is enjoying itself is a room that is still listening.
I speak plainly, I will make you laugh, and most of my material happened to me.
Lived patient experience with the technical understanding underneath it
Warm and direct, fun rather than sentimental, never a lecture
Aimed at decisions the audience is actually responsible for
Comfortable in senior, expert and sceptical rooms
English and Dutch, across the world
Themes I speak on
There is a treatment. There is not a treatment for you.
What happens to patients who fall outside the reimbursement line, and how that line was drawn inside a protocol years before anyone considered access. The clearest available case for thinking about access at design stage.
When measured is not the same as real
My own treatment story, where the formal scores recorded nothing and my life changed considerably. What that gap means for endpoint selection, and for who receives a medicine as a result.
People over protocols
Why the person has to come before the protocol in acute care, and what happens when they do not. Two stories from inside the system, including the night a protocol nearly cost me my life.
Accessibility beyond compliance
What genuine accessibility feels like, in healthcare, in travel and in daily life. Drawn from the accessibility working group at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, and a considerable amount of personal experience on the road.
Fairly often, someone finds me after a talk and mentions, more quietly, that they think one of their own studies has this problem.
That is usually where working together more closely begins.
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