A conference, summit, or workshop is the perfect opportunity to educate and inform a wide audience about the reality of the patient/family experience and the grounding that it brings to the medical community at so many levels.

You can bring this new learning to the forefront and have your conference incorporate and promote the much-needed perspective and input that the patient partners bring. Many from the medical and research community have incorporated this reality and are eager to further this. Getting together with patients and family members can be an invaluable opportunity to build on and with the people in attendance to integrate patient engagement and show that you are leading by example.

Here are some key ways you can ensure meaningful patient and family engagement at your next event. Our infographic gives tangible ways of incorporating the much-needed patient partner perspective from the inception of the conference to the debrief and in many creative and innovative ways in between.

Authors: Vivian Wong and Gillian Robinson

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