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An Introduction to our new Executive Director, Randy Houk

An Introduction to our new Executive Director, Randy Houk

I am so honored and excited to introduce myself to you, SPM Blog readers, SPM members and friends, and to share with you a preview of coming attractions. By that I mean that since I’ve been the new Executive Director for SPM for a day and a half, my vision for what...
Moving Forward to Make SPM Stronger

Moving Forward to Make SPM Stronger

As you know over the past year we at SPM have been involved in rethinking our organization. How can we make it stronger? More sustainable? More impactful? And more meaningful to our members and corporate partners? As part of this we are restructuring the organization...
Marketing & Communications Rockstars Wanted!

Marketing & Communications Rockstars Wanted!

The Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM) is looking for some rock stars to join our Marketing committee and to help change the world. If you would like to volunteer or know someone who may be interested, please take a look. We are a fun, high energy team committed...
SPM member Jeanne Pinder on TED home page

SPM member Jeanne Pinder on TED home page

The famous TED Talks site TED.com is the holy grail of many evangelists. Aside from the extraordinary visibility it gives your message, and aside from the validation of your message (the site’s tagline is “Ideas worth spreading”), it means...
Sara Riggare is Swede of the Year in medicine

Sara Riggare is Swede of the Year in medicine

Sara RIggare, one of the earliest members of our Society, has just received a great honor: Fokus magazine (“Sweden’s Time”) has named her “Swede of the Year” in medicine. In the photo from the award ceremony she seems appropriately...

So, about this “big data” thing …

On Facebook last Friday our member Carla Berg Nelson posted briefly about a new Psychology Today blog post, Data: the New Window into Humanity, by John Nosta. She tagged a number of other members (and non).  I know and respect Nosta from his days creating a LinkedIn...

New Participatory Medicine Resources for Providers

Ever since the formation of the Society for Participatory Medicine we have discussed curating and sharing resources about participatory medicine. The resources might be videos, websites, blog posts, tutorials, and other online resources that could benefit patients,...

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