Margo Corbett is uniquely qualified to teach you how to be a Savvy Patient. All of her education, professional and personal experiences have blended together in her books and in the Savvy Patient School in preparation for this life mission – “Helping you become an empowered patient / family caregiver”

Margo is the author of Lead Your Way to Better Healthcare and the 2nd edition The Savvy Patient’s Toolkit She has appeared on radio and spoken to a variety of groups and at regional & national conferences throughout the US. She has a BS in Medical Technology and Masters in Storytelling with extensive training teaching and consulting on the use of Total Quality Management, Knowledge Management, and Systems Thinking.
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Personal experiences include: Surviving cancer and three life-threatening medical errors including a misdiagnosis. She has been a family caregiver and patient advocate for her husband since his crisis in 2003 – the day that he was told he might not live through the night because he was in kidney failure — that inspired the first edition of her book Lead Your Way to Better Healthcare.

Patient Advocate

She continues as a patient advocate for her husband, friends and family. While doing so, all of the health record forms in her books were created at the point of need and from a patient’s perspective because she quickly realized people need more than just health record forms to use. They need to have the forms capture information in a meaningful way and know how to use the information compiled in them to obtain better medical care and prevent misdiagnosis and other medical errors.

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She has also volunteered for CareSpark, a non-profit organization in NE Tennessee & SW Virginia. CareSpark is building one of the nation’s premier Electronic Medical Record Systems to link and make patient records available at all times to all providers. She was an observer/advisor to the Consumer Perspective Workgroup of the National Health Information Network (NHIN), as part of the national electronic medical records effort.  Currently she is working with the North Carolina’s Consumer Advisory Council for Healthcare Information (CACHI). She spoke at the ARC National Convention in Albuquerque, NM in November 2008.

She was one of fifty patient advocate / activist invited to attend the First Summit for Patient Advocate / Activist and Partners in Quality and Safety held at the 22^nd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando, FL December, 2010.

She belongs to the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine and the National Speakers Association.

Margo is married with seven children and ten grandchildren.

Page Last Updated on March, 2011