Grace Cordovano, PhD
Role:
Board Certified Patient Advocate
Enlightening Results
Dr. Grace Cordovano, BCPA, founder of Enlightening Results and co-Founder of Unblock Health, is dedicated to providing personalized patient advocacy services, specializing in the oncology space. With over 25 years of advocacy experience, she strategically guides patients through survivorship or end-of-life care planning with empathy, ensuring they are armed with the most pertinent, medically credible, easy to understand information to make informed decisions about their care. Through her advocacy work, she is humbled to witness the challenges, barriers to access, unmet needs, grief, financial toxicities, joys, and losses patients face in the midst of a diagnosis. Dr. Cordovano is an advocate for leveraging digital technologies to enhance treatment of the whole person in the context of life-altering diagnoses as well as for digital health to give patients a competitive advantage over their diagnosis.
A recognized authority on Patient Administrative Burden (PAB), Dr. Cordovano's co-founded Unblock Health, the master key to unlocking all access to patient health information while enabling patients to exercise their right of access. Her policy work is far-reaching, contributing to the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Taskforce, HITAC Interoperability Standards Work Group, HIMSS Public Policy Committee, the Sequoia Project’s Consumer Voices Workgroup, and the National Academy of Medicine’s AI Code of Conduct Project. Her advisory role at CancerX reflects her passion for equitable, affordable cancer care for all patients.
Dr. Cordovano completed her Master’s 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 been repeatedly recognized as Patient Advocate of the Year. She has been featured in StatNews, Medscape, KevinMD, Tincture, The Health Care Blog, U.S. News & World Report, Kaiser Health News, etc.
Follow her on X at @GraceCordovano.