12 Ways To Become A Stronger Advocate: A Month-by-Month Guide to Achieving Your Advocacy Goals in 2024
As we begin a new year, now is an ideal time to review your advocacy goals and determine how to make a bigger impact in 2024. This article outlines 12…
Mastering Instagram for Patient Advocacy: 10 Tips for Success
Boasting more than two billion active users, Instagram provides an excellent platform for patient advocates to reach a wide audience and inspire change. Here are 10 tips to help you…
Navigating the Dual Nature of Social Media: A Patient Advocate’s Guide
As an early adopter of social media, I readily embraced its power to amplify patient advocacy and connect with others with shared interests and goals. From sharing stories online to…
Finding Your New Normal: 7 Steps To Navigating Life After Cancer
A cancer diagnosis can turn your life upside down, challenging you physically, emotionally, and mentally. It takes a lot of strength, resilience, and support to get through cancer treatment. However,…
Transforming Your Social Media Presence: 5 Steps to Foster Inclusivity and Advocate for All
In the realm of patient advocacy, inclusivity and accessibility are critical to ensuring everyone’s voice is heard, respected and empowered. With a few simple steps, you can transform your social…
Patient-Centric Care
Tailoring Information to Meet the Changing Needs of Patients Along Their Healthcare Journey Being diagnosed with cancer can be a frightening experience. The diagnosis can bring up a range of…
Patient Advocacy: How To Boost Your Visibility on LinkedIn
In my previous post, I shared with you tips to optimize your LinkedIn profile. Recall that I recommended LinkedIn as the best social network for enhancing your professional online presence…
Patient Advocacy: How To Increase Twitter Engagement
While Twitter might not be as popular as other social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube, it nevertheless has a large following among healthcare professionals and patient communities. Twitter…
Mind the Gap: How to Handle a Cancer-Related Absence in Your Work History
Are you looking for a new job after cancer treatment? Perhaps you left your last employment after your diagnosis, or maybe you are still in your current job but want…
Ten Things You Should Never Say To A Person With Cancer…And One Thing You Should
I get it. People so often just don’t know what to say to someone with cancer. It’s a shock when someone you care about has received a life-changing diagnosis. Our…
12 Best Practice Tips To Design Helpful Patient Information Materials
As a patient advocate, you may be asked to help review or co-design patient information materials. Or you may wish to create the information yourself because you’ve noticed a gap…
Patient Advocacy: 7 Ways To Access Medical Journal Articles For Free
Has this ever happened to you? You come across a tweet with a link to a new study in your disease area and you eagerly click on it only to…