Wendy Sue Swanson

Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson is leading the way to a new age in medicine, in which innovations in digital, social media, and prevention leverage the combined wisdom of clinicians, patients, and researchers to help build stronger relationships. Dr. Swanson was the founder and Chief of Digital Innovation at Seattle Children's Hospital in 2013, a community pediatrician, a weekly TV reporter, blogger, and has continued to be an important thought leader online for over a decade. Dr. Swanson speaks to digital health, innovation in public health, prevention, and healthcare advocacy. She provides pediatric advice to the press weekly.

Dr. Swanson has been a pioneer in supporting patients' engagement in their own health, improving patient education, and the patient experience. Dr. Swanson has proposed solutions for better online resources to help patients look for medical information to ensure the quality of information. She also helps physicians embrace patients' access to personal health data and shows physicians how to partner with patients using this health data, and also how to see trends across patient data, improving public health. She explains how we can embrace digital tools to scale messaging so that time spent with each patient is more meaningful and to improve much-needed efficiencies in clinical settings.