Dr. Grace Cordovano, BCPA

Upon recognizing significant unmet needs and challenges in patients’ experiences throughout their cancer diagnosis, Dr. Grace Cordovano, BCPA, founded Enlightening Results in 2010. Dr. Cordovano is dedicated to fostering personalized patient advocacy services, specializing in oncology, rare, and catastrophic cases. She has been likened to the “House” of patient navigation, internationally recognized for “navigating the unnavigable”. She strategically guides patients & their carepartners through survivorship or end-of-life care planning with empathy, ensuring individuals are armed with the most pertinent, medically credible, easy-to-understand information, tools, and technology to make informed decisions about their care.

Dr. Cordovano is a champion for palliative care, digital health, clinical trials, and harnessing the power of AI in navigating life with a cancer diagnosis. She amplifies the message that treatment planning must focus on treating the whole person, not just a clinical diagnosis, and that patient care strategies must give the competitive advantage to the patient, not their diagnosis. With over 25 years of patient advocacy experience, she thoroughly understands the barriers patients face due to data siloes, excessive Patient Administrative Burden (PAB), poorly designed, fragmented workflows, and lack of transparency and trust in digital health. Dr. Cordovano co-founded Unblock Health to empower patients and their carepartners with modernized tools to request their all their electronic health information (EHI) as well as to request corrections to their EHI. Dr. Cordovano completed her Masters and Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY). She is a board-certified patient advocate via the international credentialing of the Patient Advocate Certification Board. She served as one of 5 national e-patient ambassadors for the Coalition of Compassionate Care of California, a PCORI research project funded by the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award.

Dr. Cordovano has served on the HITAC United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and Interoperability Standards Workgroup (ISWG), co-chairs The Sequoia Project Consumer Voices Workgroup, is a member of the HIMSS Public Policy Committee, a member of the HLTH Foundation Techquity Coalition, a CancerX Fellow, serves as Patient-In-Residence at Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences AI Code of Conduct project. Dr. Cordovano is an internationally recognized, award-winning patient advocate that has been featured in StatNews, KevinMD, Tincture, The Healthcare Blog, MobiHealthNews, US News & World Report, Kaiser News, and Politico. Follow her on X @GraceCordovano.

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