Cinderblocks 2016: Bring on the Patients!

Regina Holliday
The irrepressible Regina Holliday is doing it again. This week will be the third time the mighty patient advocate, author and founder of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare is holding the “Cinderblocks” conference, a patient-led art and medical forum which has become sort of a revival meeting for patient advocates. Among headliner presenters is our friend and colleague, patient engagement advocate and kidney cancer survivor e-Patient Dave deBronkart. But the force behind the conference is Regina. (Read a recent USA Today profile of her work here.)
I remember attending the very first Cinderblocks conference in Kansas City, Missouri, and finally getting a chance to know Regina, whom I’d spotted during a previous conference in her customary venue – bellied up to her easel, clad in a smock, paints splayed in front of her. Labeled “Little Miss Type-A personality” by one of the doctors who treated her late husband, she proudly sports a big letter “A” she painted on the back of her own signature red jacket, as a key reminder of her own health care journey. For the uninitiated among us, Regina leverages her passion for storytelling and artistic talents to paint wildly expressive paintings on the back of business jackets.
The coveted jackets are worn at medical conferences and other events, where they’re guaranteed to prompt conversations. 44 artists have since participated, but most of the jackets (about 350 out of more than 400) were painted by Reg...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Patients Patients' Rights Uncategorized Source Type: blogs