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Exploring the Patient Experience At Gel Health 2009

The Gel (Good Experience Live) conference series, a seven-year-old event curated by Mark Hurst, is launching a new healthcare event - Gel Health - a conference focused on the patient experience.

Speakers from Johns Hopkins, Beth Israel Deaconess and The Cleveland Clinic, among others, will offer their insights into the patient experience - how to improve it, and who's doing it, in a variety of organizations and companies.

Gel Health will be held on Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23, 2009 at Scandinavia House, Park Avenue and 38th Street in Manhattan. Tickets are available at for $499.

Confirmed GEL Health 2009 speakers (so far):

* Dr. Bridget Duffy, Chief Experience Officer, Cleveland Clinic
* Dr. Robert Martensen, Author, A Life Worth Living; lecturer, Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Cathy Salit, Working with Johns Hopkins oncology nurses via Performance of a Lifetime
* Dan Ford, Patient advocate
* Dr. Javette Orgain, Family physician; Chairperson, Illinois State Board of Health
* Dr. John La Puma, Author, ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine
* Dr. Jim Withers, Founder, Operation Safety Net
* Dr. Mark Pochapin, Director, Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health
* Michael Christensen, Co-Founder and Creative Director of the Big Apple Circus and founder of Clown Care
* Olie Westheimer, Founder, Brooklyn Parkinson Group; cofounder, "Dance for PD" with Mark Morris Dance Group
* Dr. Sharon Krumm, Director of Nursing, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
* Dr. Sigall Bell, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
* Bill Brownstein, Founder, Kids RX

It looks like an interesting two days on a topic deserving more attention and focus.


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