Grounded in lived experience and health-system insight, Emily provides advisory support to help healthcare and research organizations design more inclusive, patient-centred strategies, programs, and communications.
Examples of Services Provided:
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Retained patient advisor for hospitals, research teams, and digital health startups
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Review and provide feedback on patient-facing materials, policies, and strategic plans
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Participation in advisory boards, co-design initiatives, and facilitated working sessions
Areas of Expertise and Audiences:
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Patient engagement, inclusive care design, and health equity
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Hospitals, research teams, digital health companies, and nonprofit organizations
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Advisor to CAMH, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the Canadian Immunocompromised Advocacy Network, and the U of T Department of Family & Community Medicine, with contributions including:
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Access to Clinical Notes in Canada — featured on CAMH’s Digital Mental Health Lab platform
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Quoted patient partner in CIHI’s Annual Report, contributing lived-experience insight to national health data and engagement priorities
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Judge, Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) Right Care Challenge Awards, supporting initiatives focused on improving access to care and easing pressure on emergency departments
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Featured in Patient Voice: “The Hidden Toll of Chronic Illness and Medical Dismissal: Emily’s Story” — sharing personal experience navigating complex chronic illness as part of a national patient storytelling platform
💬 Bring lived experience into your work with care, clarity, and intention.
Emily crafts clear, compassionate content that bridges clinical language and real-life experience—helping teams communicate with empathy, accuracy, and impact. Her work draws on lived experience, communications expertise, and course design within healthcare education settings.
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Writing and ghostwriting for blogs, op-eds, reports, and thought leadership
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Inclusive language reviews, audits, and editing for patient-facing materials
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Course and curriculum content development for healthcare, advocacy, and education initiatives
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Content strategy for advocacy campaigns, toolkits, and learning resources
Areas of Expertise and Audiences:
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Chronic illness, mental health, stigma, accessibility, and health equity
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Communications teams, healthcare organizations, medical publishers, advocacy and nonprofit organizations
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Course designer with CAMH, supporting education and learning initiatives that translate complex systems into accessible, patient-informed content
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Co-lead writer, CAMH’s Clear & Inclusive Writing Guide, shaping organization-wide approaches to respectful, person-centred language — published in Healthy Debate
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Contributor to CIHI and the University of Toronto’s Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) health communication initiatives
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Published in national outlets and public-facing health platforms, including Healthy Debate
✏️ Tell stories that educate, connect, and resonate.
Emily shares powerful, personal narratives about navigating the healthcare system, living with complex chronic illness, and driving culture change through inclusion, storytelling, and advocacy. Her talks blend lived experience with systems insight, offering audiences both reflection and practical takeaways.
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Keynote presentations at conferences, healthcare events, and corporate wellness programs
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Panels, fireside chats, and lectures on patient partnership, inclusion, and culture change
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Workplace and community talks on mental health, resilience, and navigating complexity
Areas of Expertise and Audiences:
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Rare and chronic illness, mental health, patient engagement, and inclusive communication
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Healthcare professionals, academic institutions, research teams, and wellness audiences diseases, mental health, patient engagement
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• Featured speaker at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, sharing lived experience with medical learners to support more patient-centred practice
• Speaker at CAMH, presenting on patient partnership, stigma, inclusion, and the role of lived experience in system change
• Panelist at the “Where’s the Patient Voice in Health Professional Education?” conference (British Columbia), contributing to national conversations on embedding patient perspectives in education
• Speaker at the UHN PiPER Conference, presenting on OpenNotes and patient access to clinical notes
• Presenter at SIMposium, sharing insights from the DOORS-adjacent digital literacy and patient education work
• Speaker at March.ai, sharing her diagnostic odyssey and the implications for AI, diagnostics, and patient trust
• Published and featured in Healthy Debate, CP24, The Kit, and NOW
🎙️ Inspire your audience through lived experience, insight, and lasting impact.
With a thoughtful, values-driven approach, Emily partners with wellness and lifestyle brands to create authentic, accessible content rooted in storytelling and lived experience. Her collaborations prioritize care, creativity, and alignment over promotion.
Examples of Services Provided:
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Sponsored blog posts, reels, and lifestyle storytelling
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Content creation with a wellness, accessibility, or floral focus
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Creative partnerships that uplift inclusive values and lived experience
Areas of Expertise and Audiences:
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Wellness, beauty, floristry, home, and lifestyle
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Inclusive marketing, accessible design, and brand storytelling
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Lifestyle and storytelling collaborations with Cirque du Soleil
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Creator partnerships with NatureMary in the wellness space
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Featured storytelling with Osteo Tuina across blog, newsletter, and social media
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Content that bridges wellness, accessibility, creativity, and lived experience
🌟 Collaborate on content that feels good and does good.
