Our Advocates

NAVOCATE Health is built on a network of advocates who have personally navigated serious medical journeys themselves or alongside someone they love.

Because of that experience, they understand what it feels like to face complicated diagnoses, difficult treatment decisions, and healthcare systems that are not always easy to navigate.

Each advocate brings both personal experience and training in patient advocacy to help individuals and families approach these moments with greater clarity and preparation.

What Makes Our Advocates Different

NAVOCATE advocates bring something that is rarely found in traditional healthcare support: both lived experience and advocacy training.

Lived Experience

Every NAVOCATE advocate has personally navigated complex healthcare as a patient or caregiver.

They have sat in waiting rooms, faced difficult decisions, and learned firsthand how confusing the healthcare system can feel when the stakes are high.

Advocacy Training

In addition to lived experience, NAVOCATE advocates complete training focused on helping patients navigate healthcare systems and prepare for important medical conversations.

That training includes:

• understanding how healthcare systems operate
• helping patients organize questions and information
• supporting thoughtful, informed decision-making
• maintaining independence from hospitals and healthcare institutions

Together, this experience and training allow advocates to provide guidance that is practical, thoughtful, and grounded in real experience.

Personal Investment

NAVOCATE advocates understand that behind every medical decision is a real life, a real family, and often a moment where everything feels uncertain.

Because they have faced those moments themselves, they approach every situation with the care, urgency, and attention they once needed for their own loved ones.

A Growing Network

NAVOCATE Health continues to expand its advocate network so that more patients can connect with someone who understands what navigating serious healthcare actually feels like.

The advocates featured here represent only a small part of the NAVOCATE community.

Interested in Becoming an Advocate?

NAVOCATE welcomes individuals who have personally navigated serious healthcare experiences and want to help others do the same.

Advocates in the network bring both lived experience and a commitment to supporting patients as they move through complex medical systems.

If you are interested in becoming part of the NAVOCATE advocate network, we invite you to begin the application process.