Deb Gordon
Deborah D. Gordon has spent her profession making an attempt to stage the enjoying area for healthcare shoppers. She is co-founder of Umbra Health Advocacy, a market for affected person advocacy providers, and co-director of the Alliance of Professional Health Advocates, the premiere membership group for impartial advocates. She is the creator of “The Well being Care Client’s Manifesto: Easy methods to Get the Most for Your Cash,” primarily based on client analysis she carried out as a senior fellow within the Harvard Kennedy Faculty’s Mossavar-Rahmani Middle for Enterprise and Authorities. Deb beforehand spent greater than 20 years in healthcare management roles, together with chief advertising and marketing officer for a Massachusetts well being plan and CEO of a well being know-how firm. Deb is an Aspen Institute Well being Innovators Fellow, an Eisenhower Fellow and a Boston Enterprise Journal 40-under-40 honoree. Her contributions have appeared in JAMA Community Open, the Harvard Enterprise Overview weblog, USA Immediately, RealClear Politics, The Hill and Managed Care Journal. She earned a BA in bioethics from Brown College and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Enterprise Faculty.