Matthew Zachary
Matthew Zachary: A True Original
Matthew Zachary
Keynote Speaker
Host, "Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary"; Founder, Stupid Cancer; Founder and Chair, OffScrip Health
With a 20+ year career in entertainment, advertising, marketing, nonprofit, digital health, public policy, life sciences, and broadcast media, Matthew is considered one of the industry's most respected, influential, and visionary voices. Diagnosed as a college senior with brain cancer, Matthew wasn't sure back then he'd make it to his next birthday. That was 27 years ago.
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Matthew Zachary is an American advocate passionate about putting the patient at the center of every conversation. Why? He is one. Diagnosed as a college senior with brain cancer, he wasn’t sure he’d make his next birthday. That was 27 years ago.
Hailed by People Magazine as “The People’s Voice in Healthcare,” Matthew is one of today’s most respected, influential, and visionary voices in healthcare.
As Founder of the award-winning nonprofit Stupid Cancer, Matthew started the young adult cancer movement in 2007. He was christened the “Podfather of Healthcare” for hosting The Stupid Cancer Show, the first streaming healthcare podcast before podcasts.
Matthew is also co-founder and chair of OffScrip Health, a prestige documentary podcast studio where he hosts “Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary,” a Top-10 Healthcare Podcast.
A provocateur with an authentic passion for disruption, Matthew will share his lived experience of personal empowerment and self-advocacy and his divergent thoughts on challenging convention wisdom about survivorship with attendees at JADPRO Live.
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Permission To Be Pissed
Ten years after his brain cancer diagnosis, in 2007, Matthew Zachary founded Stupid Cancer out of his second bedroom with a dollar and a dream. Broadband and smartphones were years away, this so-called Facebook raised our eyebrows, and “Young Adult Cancer” did not exist in the lexicon of advocates, researchers, or policymakers. The next generation of cancer patients looked to the past for cues to channel their anger toward action and force the hands of government and medicine to enact critical policy and practice reforms. The Young Adult Cancer Movement was born. In this talk, Matthew takes audiences on a journey back in time to the origins of patient movements that brought us to today’s narrative. Now in his 27th year in remission, Matthew shares his personal story and lessons learned by way of his hodgepodge lived experiences, including but not limited to: concert pianist, Madison Avenue executive, Google advisor, nonprofit leader, digital health startup guy, patient advocate, fertility rights activist, futurist, GenX spokesperson, and 80’s pop culture nerd.
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Patient v. Consumer
Trust and empathy are central aspects of improving healthcare. While their importance is receiving recognition, systemic risk aversion and groupthink complacency have impeded implementation. The result is an increasing erosion of trust between patients and “the system,” especially in healthcare marketing and communications. The country’s topmost honest and ethical professions are doctors, nurses, grade-school teachers, and pharmacists (Gallup,) and yet, 91% of all patients believe industry prioritizes people over profits (Harris). Consumer brands understand trust and empathy as social science guides their tactics with end-user consumers. In healthcare, the provider is the end-user. What if it were possible for healthcare communications to utilize the same tactics as consumer brands? In this talk, Matthew sheds light on how we might innovate our way out of this by learning from CPG use cases, nonprofit communications, digital health solutions, shifting trends in consumer media consumption, shared accountability, and increased federal protections.
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