From Patient to StopAFib: Health Equity Action Plan

Dave Craig is a two-time cancer survivor, oncology researcher and patient experience champion. After 10 years of struggling to see his own cancer journey in the patient experience research he led for the pharmaceutical industry, he left to use his survivor heart and researcher brain to help other patients. In 2016, he co-founded Gryt (“grit”) Health, a digital oncology solutions company that empowers people to be in charge of their own health through connection, education and advocacy. At Gryt Health, he and his team of fellow survivors and caregivers, use their expertise and personal experiences to improve medicine development and access, while creating platforms to learn from and support the lived experiences of facing a diagnosis.

Mellanie True Hills brings an atrial fibrillation (afib) patient perspective (now 15+ years afib-free). She is an internationally-known author and speaker and founder/CEO of StopAfib.org, a global afib patient advocacy organization. Successes include creating Afib Awareness Month, co-creating MyAFibExperience.org with AHA, co-chairing global advocacy task forces, convening the National AF Health Policy Roundtable, and hosting the annual Get in Rhythm. Stay in Rhythm. Atrial Fibrillation Patient Conference.