Roi Shternin

How to Start a Revolution from Your Bed

How can we turn a bad situation around? Why is it that situations of uncertainty are the ones that shape and strengthen our character the most?

A real-life medical mystery, doomed to a life of loneliness, bedridden and no prospects, Roi turned the tables around. He was diagnosed, rehabilitated, and taught himself to walk and talk again at 27, starting a medical revolution from his bed and empowering others to do the same, leaving their beds, comfort zones, and fears behind.

Lifesaving storytelling

The story Roi Shternin told his doctors saved his life.Of course, this radical use of storytelling skills is not always the case, but there is no doubt that a well-told story can turn a situation in a positive, helpful direction and even change your life.

After seven years of being sick in bed, Roi taught himself to walk again, and since then, he hasn’t stopped running. The story he wove from the pieces of information he had saved his life. Being able to do the same could be just as crucial to you.

Why is it so important to tell your story well to an audience, your boss, your banker? And what does it have to do with entrepreneurship and making the world a better place

Why Patients may be our best entrepreneurs

Patients are the most underutilized resource in healthcare. The journey chronically ill patients undergo, dealing with their illness, bureaucracy, budgeting, and self-management, has many parallel lines with running a startup.

In this inciting talk, Roi asks to shine a spotlight on an untapped, underutilized resource that might bring us the following significant health innovation, policy, or change the way we think about healthcare as we know it.

Why Patients should lead healthcare

Roi’s incredible story and the following groundbreaking work in patient empowerment led him to come up with a new job Title: “Patient in residence.” This successful attempt to make patients the captains of their fate led to a cascade of events that are bringing the patient to the front of healthcare systems around the world.

In this inciting talk, Roi illustrates the importance, morality, and economic sense behind patient empowerment as a whole and patient leadership in particular and shows that when patients are in charge, better outcomes, decisions, and service choices are made.

Roi was the first-ever Patient in residence for a national health organization and is serving at Sheba medical center, Tel-Aviv Patient in resident and senior advisor for patient empowerment, centricity, and engagement; he is writing his dissertation on Patient empowerment as a tool to improve healthcare outcomes and have written a book and several medical articles on the matter,

Patient empowerment is not a choice; it is a moral obligation.

Patient centricity has become a buzzword in healthcare in recent years. But instead of joining a trend, healthcare leaders must understand their moral obligation for their patients to revise better care and be fostered as the core of healthcare.

This talk teaches leaders in healthcare, pharma, and biotech that empowering patients is not only a nice thing to have, but it may revolutionize their financial outcomes, health outcomes, and prosperity.