The Fast Company Impact Council features leaders and experts discussing essential insights, and highlights the Exceptional Women Alliance's focus on peer mentorship among women. This month, Roslyn Schneider, MD, shared her journey in healthcare, emphasizing human-centered design. Influenced by personal healthcare experiences, including misdiagnosis as a child and practicing during the AIDS epidemic, Schneider advocates for patient involvement in medical development processes. Her work illustrates the necessity of partnership between patients and healthcare providers to enhance treatment outcomes and ensure that patient voices shape medical innovations effectively.
My personal and family encounters with our healthcare system, clinical practice during the height of the AIDS epidemic, and seeing the value of partnerships with patients as lived experience experts, have been my greatest influences.
As a child I was misdiagnosed, in large part, because physicians dismissed concerns from my parents who were immigrants with little formal education, but who knew there was something wrong.
I practiced and taught at a New York City hospital in the 1980s and 90s when we had limited treatments for HIV infection. The community challenged the pace of medication development and access.
I saw the power of their advocacy and the importance of including patient perspectives in medical product development as a way to improve outcomes.
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