Bring a Fresh Voice to the Healthcare Conversation
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Fresh perspective
Healthcare stories, systems thinking, and practical action.
Few speakers can connect the human stories of medicine with the larger forces shaping the future of healthcare. Garrett’s presentations challenge conventional thinking, inspire meaningful dialogue, and equip audiences with practical ideas for building a healthcare system that better serves patients, providers, and communities alike.
Garrett speaks with authenticity, credibility, and optimism. Whether addressing clinicians, executives, policymakers, students, or the public, he has a unique ability to make complex healthcare issues understandable, relatable, and deeply human.
His mission is simple: to educate, to challenge conventional thinking, and to inspire action.
His mission
- Educate audiences with clarity.
- Challenge conventional thinking.
- Inspire meaningful action.
Why Garrett?
Healthcare experience from nearly every angle.
Clinical Experience
- Frontline emergency and urgent care clinician.
- Fellowships: pediatric infectious disease, stroke, neurology, and obesity medicine.
- International medical experience in Malawi, Africa.
Leadership Experience
- Healthcare executive and entrepreneur.
- Regional clinical leader during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Founder of multiple healthcare organizations.
Movement Building
- Author of Flatlined: How Profit Broke American Healthcare.
- Founder of Patients Before Profit, a nonprofit organization and movement.
- A practical voice for reform that serves patients, providers, and communities.
Speaking Style
Compelling, practical, and deeply human.
Garrett’s presentations combine entertaining and compelling storytelling, real-world clinical experience, data-driven insights, PowerPoint and visual tools, audience Q&A, and practical solutions.
Audiences appreciate his ability to simplify complex healthcare issues without oversimplifying them. His talks are engaging, conversational, and grounded in firsthand experience, leaving attendees informed, inspired, and equipped to think differently about the future of healthcare.
Every presentation is customized to the audience and designed to spark meaningful conversations and action long after the event concludes.
Format strengths
- Storytelling grounded in frontline care.
- Data-driven insight without jargon.
- Audience Q&A and practical takeaways.
- Customized presentations for each event.
Ideal Audiences
Garrett speaks to a wide variety of audiences.
Healthcare & Education
- Healthcare conferences.
- Medical associations.
- Hospitals and health systems.
- Universities and medical schools.
- Physician assistant and nursing programs.
Leadership & Innovation
- Corporate leadership and executive teams.
- Healthcare startups and innovation summits.
- Government agencies and policy forums.
- Chambers of commerce and civic organizations.
Public Conversation
- Podcasts, television, and media interviews.
- Social movement events.
- Nonprofit organizations.
- Community and civic forums.
Signature Speaking Topics
Talks that connect the healthcare crisis to practical reform.
Flatlined: Why American Healthcare Costs More and Delivers Less
A thought-provoking look at the structural forces driving America’s healthcare crisis and the practical reforms that can create a more affordable, accessible, and patient-centered future.
Patients Before Profit
The founding of Garrett’s 501(c)(3), Patients Before Profit, and its mission to equip patients, providers, business leaders, and policymakers with practical tools they can use to advocate for change in the U.S. healthcare system.
Lessons from Malawi
Drawing on his experiences working in both one of the world’s poorest healthcare systems and the world’s most expensive, Garrett offers a unique perspective on their differences and surprising similarities.
Burnout Is a System Problem
An honest conversation about why healthcare professionals are leaving medicine in record numbers and what organizations can do to create healthier workplaces and better patient care.
The Future of Healthcare
How innovation, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and patient-centered design are reshaping the next generation of medicine.
Leading Through Crisis
Informed by years of leadership in emergency medicine, urgent care, and pre-hospital care, Garrett shares firsthand lessons in leading teams through high-pressure, high-stakes environments.
What Audiences Leave With
Every audience leaves with more than inspiration.
Renewed Optimism
A renewed sense of optimism about what is possible.
Deeper Understanding
A deeper understanding of today’s healthcare challenges.
Practical Reform Ideas
Practical, evidence-based ideas for meaningful reform.
Actionable Strategies
Strategies they can apply in their own organizations and communities.
Movement Energy
Inspiration to become part of a growing movement that puts patients before profit.
Clear Next Steps
A stronger sense of how to think differently and act boldly after the event.
Invite Garrett to Speak
Ready to bring Garrett to your event?
Whether your audience consists of healthcare professionals, students, executives, policymakers, entrepreneurs, or community leaders, Garrett delivers presentations that educate, inspire, and motivate audiences to think differently and act boldly.
We would love to discuss your audience, goals, and how Garrett can create a presentation tailored specifically for your conference or organization.