Who is Margo Corbett?

Margo Corbett is uniquely qualified to teach you How To Be A Savvy Patient. All of her education, professional experiences and personal experiences have come together in her books and now in the Savvy Patient School. It is as though she has been preparing for it all of her life. It is her life mission.

Margo is the author of Lead Your Way to Better Healthcare and the secular 2^nd edition version The Savvy Patient's Toolkit.

She has appeared on radio stations and spoken to a variety of groups and at regional & national conferences throughout the US.

She has a BS in Medical Technology and Masters in Storytelling with extensive training in Total Quality Management, Knowledge Management and Systems Thinking.

Personal experiences include surviving cancer and three life-threatening medical errors. She has been a patient advocate for her husband since the medical crisis in 2003 that spawned her first book Lead Your Way to Better Healthcare; that was the day he was told he might not life through the night because he was in kidney failure. The doctor told him, "My first job is to save your life, the second to keep you off dialysis as long as possible!" That was the night the first form of her "personal health record" system was developed.

She continued as a patient advocate for her husband, an elderly neighbor for the next two years. She has also been a patient advocate for other friends and  family members on numerous occasions. All of the forms in her books were created at the point of need from a patient's perspective. With her education and background, she quickly realized people need more than a "personal health record" or forms to use; they need to know how to use the information compiled in them to obtain better health care and prevent medical errors. And, as they say - "The rest is history."

Most recently, she has volunteered for CareSpark, a non-profit organization in NE Tennessee & SW Virginia. CareSpark is building one of the premier Electronic Medical Record Systems to link and make patient records available at all times to all providers. She is also an observer / advisor to the Consumer Perspective Workgroup of the National Health Information Network (NHIN), which is building the system, to link medical records nationally. She spoke at the ARC National Convention in Albuquerque, NM in November, 2008.

Margo is married with seven children and nine grandchildren with another on the way.