Patient advocate · Writer · Speaker · Communications partner
Emily works with health care organizations, researchers and educators to translate lived experience into more inclusive communication, meaningful co-design and practical systems change.
Selected organizations
CAMHUniversity of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM)Healthcare Excellence CanadaUHNAwareness continues · MCAS advocacy
An international network of landmarks, organizations and advocates helped shine a light on MCAS. Keep the momentum going by writing to a health minister or registering your interest in MCAS Canada.
New at CAMH · Personal story
Emily reflects on recovery, patient partnership and how co-leading the Clear and Inclusive Writing Guidelines helped her bring lived experience and communications expertise into the same meaningful work.
Read Emily's CAMH story
Just launched · Inclusive communication
CAMH's Clear and Inclusive Writing Guidelines are here. Co-created with more than 70 contributors, with Emily as patient partner and co-lead writer.
Explore the guide
In development · Digital literacy program
Emily is helping adapt DOORS Canada, a digital literacy program for people with serious mental illness. Her work includes shaping accessible course materials and practical, game-based learning experiences.
About
Emily's experience navigating complex chronic illness changed how she thinks about communication. In health care, language shapes trust, access, outcomes and how people experience care.
Today, she combines lived experience with more than 15 years in communications and strategy, contributing patient insight to health care education, research, digital health and engagement.
Selected work & impact
A selection of work across inclusive communication, digital literacy, patient partnership and health care education.
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Inclusive health communication
Co-wrote a co-produced resource shaped with more than 70 contributors across CAMH.
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Digital literacy program
Course developer at CAMH for the Canadian adaptation of a digital literacy program for people living with serious mental illness, originally developed through Harvard-affiliated digital psychiatry work.
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Transparent communication
Contributing lived-experience insight to an international movement for transparent communication and patient access to clinical notes, including testimonial and education work at CAMH.
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Health-system contribution
Bringing practical patient insight to health care education, engagement and digital health initiatives with system partners.
Areas of work
Writing & research
Emily writes about the language of care, chronic illness, patient partnership and the systems that influence whose knowledge counts.
Speaking
Emily speaks with health care teams, researchers, educators and public audiences about lived experience, inclusive communication and meaningful patient partnership.
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If you're working in health care research, education or communication, let's talk about where Emily's perspective could help.
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