Ensuring Patient-centered Care: Partnering with Patient Advocacy

Track:
Professional Development

Day & Time:
June 26, 4:00PM - 5:30PM

Session Number:
384

Room Number:
103

Level:
Intermediate

Type:
Session

Title:
Ensuring Patient-centered Care: Partnering with Patient Advocacy

Chair(s):
Vicki Breitbart
Director, Health Advocacy Program
Sarah Lawrence College, United States

Description:
Focusing on patient-centered care, these experts promise an up-to-date discussion of the essential role of patient advocates and why the demand for their skills is increasing in research, hospital, community, industry and policy making settings.

Learning Objective(s):
Describe the practice and code of ethics of patient advocacy; Define the different roles of patient advocates in health care, biomedical research and drug development; Identify how patient advocacy can be utilized to increase patient empowerment, safety and satisfaction.

Presentation(s) & Speaker(s):
Collaborating Through Volunteer Patient Advocacy
Stephen Pew, PhD
Professor
Bethel University, United States

Panelist
Barbara Winrich, MA
Senior Clinical Research Program Manager
Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

Panelist
Karleen R. Habin, MSN,RN
Nursing Supervisor, Clinical Research Program Breast Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital, United States