Kate Lorig, RN, DrPH is the Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center , Professor of Medicine in the Stanford School of Medicine and a William Ziff Fellow at the Center for Advancing Health.

Patient Engagement: Expert Kate Lorig Talks about Challenges

Kate Lorig | October 11, 2011
This interview with Kate Lorig is the fifth in a series of brief chats between CFAH president and founder, Jessie Gruman and experts - our CFAH William Ziff Fellows - who have devoted their careers to understanding and encouraging people's engagement in their health and health care.

Thoughts on Life, Death and Facebook

Kate Lorig | June 14, 2011
For more than three weeks I have been hanging around the ICU. Lara, my friend and colleague, is poised between life and death, having rejected her five-year-old transplanted lungs. She awaits the gift of a chance for life from another donor. Lara wants so much to live. During her last conversation with me before being placed on a ventilator, she talked about her fear. Now breathing and most everything else is done for her. Drugs keep her oblivious to the suspense.

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