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Integrative Health Summit 2026 Speaker
Matthew Zachary
Founder and Author
Primary area of expertise
Patient Advocacy
Session
We the Patients
In this provocative, darkly funny talk, Matthew unpacks how American healthcare became a system where patients are expected to navigate complexity, bureaucracy, and misaligned incentives precisely when they are least equipped to do so.
Drawing on 30 years as a cancer survivor and 25 years challenging the system, he shows audiences how to understand the machinery behind their healthcare experience, reclaim their agency, and turn individual frustration into collective power.
About Matthew
Matthew Zachary survived brain cancer at 21 and spent the next thirty years refusing to let American healthcare off the hook.
He is the author of We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America's Healthcare Nightmare (Wiley), the founder of We the Patients, a national movement organizing patients into collective civic power, and the host of Out of Patients, healthcare's longest-running independent podcast.
Join Matthew on October 30
Register free to watch live, or upgrade to VIP to keep learning from every session after the event.
Free Pass
$0
- Live access to Matthew's session on October 30
- Every live session of the summit, 12 to 6 p.m. Eastern
VIP Access
$49one time
- Everything in the Free Pass
- Replays of available recorded sessions for a limited time
- The first chapter of We the Patients
- Additional VIP perks from the summit
Speaker gifts are shared with registered attendees.
Integrative Health Summit 2026, presented by Health-E-Media