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Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. The patient advocate may be an individual...

as ProHealth's "2017 ME/CFS Patient Advocate Of The Year." In 2015 she co-founded #MEAction, a global network of patients living with ME. MEAction went...

businessman, lawyer, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research and patient advocate. He became known for his activism after being diagnosed with ALS in...

health care in communities and the larger public. Advocates support and promote the rights of the patient in the health care arena, help build capacity to...

former firefighter and actor who founded Surgical Eyes in 1999 to help patients with complications from LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) and...

"Adv. Sir Alberico Gentili". "Advocate" also has the everyday meaning of speaking out to help someone else, such as patient advocacy or the support expected...

MedGift's objective is to help patients obtain support from family and friends while in treatment. She was also a patient advocate, speaking and appearing on...

Whitaker OBE (born 1963) is a British psychiatrist, immunologist, and patient advocate. He is one of Europe's longest-surviving people with HIV, having contracted...

Julia Thorogood, is an English writer, editor, book publisher and patient advocate. Julia Jones was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1954. When she was...

and cancer patient advocate. She worked as a hospital catering chef before her metastatic breast cancer diagnosis in 2016. Geib advocated for legislative...

(February 4, 1949 – March 7, 2017) was an American non-profit leader and patient advocate. After being diagnosed with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, he co-founded...

diagnostic laboratories, pathology clinics, residential health facilities, patient advocates or other allied health professions. In addition, according to industry...

research. He is a colon cancer survivor and serves on the Board as a patient advocate. He is also a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California...

Trisha Torrey is an American advocate of patient empowerment and patient advocacy. Torrey became an activist after she was misdiagnosed with a rare form...

representativeness in patient participation has had a long history of critique. For example, advocates highlight that claims that patients in participatory...

factors in her death. Her brother Mike, on a fundraising page for Patient Advocate Foundation Inc., related that she had been long suffering from a chronic...

Howser's mother. Originally a housewife, she later returns to work as a patient advocate at her son's hospital. Lawrence Pressman as Dr. Benjamin Canfield,...

medical personnel from outside the group, and each patient also was assigned a Patriot as a patient advocate who would provide home visits and accompaniment...

Compare, California Healthcare Foundation, California Office of the Patient Advocate, and The Leapfrog Group. Sutter Health-affiliated hospitals and medical...

industrialist Susanna van Tonder (born 1988), disability rights activist, patient advocate and blogger Jean-Claude Biver (born 1949), watchmaker, cheese maker...