Gel Health 2009 Conference, 10/22 in NYC

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Gel Health will explore the patient experience - how to improve it, and who's doing it, in a variety of organizations and companies. Like any Gel conference, we'll tackle the theme from a broad array of perspectives.

Gel Health will explore the patient experience - how to improve it, and who's doing it, in a variety of organizations and companies. Like any Gel conference, we'll tackle the theme from a broad array of perspectives.

A good primer on patient experience is this video of Bridget Duffy's talk at Gel 2008

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

Gel Health tickets are available at for $499.

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.

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