the afternoon nap society: Keep Calm and ePatient On

09 April 2012

Keep Calm and ePatient On

This blog post is part of WEGO Health's Health Activists Writer's Month Challenge (#HAWMC). Prompt: create your own "keep calm and carry on" poster.

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Love it. Mine would be 'Keep Calm and Stress Dose On'
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." — Buddha

AfternoonNapper is a consultant, public speaker and advocate fostering the patient voice in medicine through storytelling, social media and design thinking for innovation. Her professional experience includes 17 years in public relations, news reporting, magazine writing, and editing for print and online publications. She has a B.A. in journalism, a M.A. in liberal studies, and a certificate from Columbia University's Narrative Medicine program. Her special interests include narrative medicine, patient engagement, the patient experience, the doctor-patient relationship, the patient-caregiver relationship, chronic illness, clinical trials, health literacy, and social media's ability to connect for peer-to-peer support and medical education.

She is Coordinator of ePatient Programs for the emerging technology and healthcare innovation conference Medicine X at Stanford University and CEO/Chairman and Founder of FMD Chat, a nonprofit medical organization. Additionally she serves on the Rare Disease Advisory Board for Collaborations Pharmaceuticals and Morehead Planetarium's Alumni Council at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is involved as an advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's planning committee for provider engagement and was part of a small team of healthcare professionals selected from across the country to create a RWJF-sponsored guide to using narrative in medicine.

She has been a keynote speaker at Planetree's International Conference on Patient-Centered Care and Connect AU's Future Health Summit. Her solo presentations and panel contributions have been featured at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week, Doctors 2.0 & You, BC Kidney Days, Medicine X and MedCity News' ENGAGE among others. As an ePatient leader and workshop facilitator, she has partnered with medical school faculty at Stanford and UC Irvine to speak to students about the ePatient experience, led design-thinking sessions with cardiac health providers at Bon Secours Richmond, and explored storytelling to redefine a changing institution with staff at Johns Hopkins' Sibley campus.

Her work has been recognized with a RARE Champion of Hope Nomination for Collaborations in Advocacy among other awards and scholarships.