PHOTO: By Channa Vance
In Starbucks the other morning I ran into a woman I hadn't seen in more than a year.
She said, "Oh, Liz! How are you? ... You look great!"
I wish that meant I had a cute haircut or was looking especially fit.
But it meant, "You are the best looking person with brain cancer I have ever seen."
Liz Salmi is Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Over the last 15 years Liz has been: a research subject; an advisor in patient stakeholder groups; a leader in “patient engagement” research initiatives; and an innovator, educator and investigator in national educational and research projects. Today her work focuses on involving patients and care partners in the co-design of research and research dissemination. It is rumored Liz was the drummer in a punk rock band.
