Regina Holliday Keynote Speaker from Grantsville, MD

Regina Holliday is an artist & international speaker. After she keynotes at an event, she often paints the conference content she hears. Ms. Holliday also facilitates art projects with nurses and doctors at conferences. When she is not presenting in healthcare, she works with people of all ages to reach their artistic potential. She lectures on the power of art to change health policy at universities. Her advocacy artwork has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, & NPR. Regina Holliday is a mother and a widow; she speaks about the benefits of health information technology and timely data access for patients due to her family loss. In 2009, she painted a series of murals depicting the need for clarity and transparency in medical records. This advocacy mission was inspired by her late husband Frederick Allen Holliday II and his struggle to get appropriate care during 11 weeks of continuous hospitalization at 5 facilities. Her paintings became part of the national debate on health care reform and helped guide public policy. She also began an advocacy movement called "The Walking Gallery." The Gallery consists of medical providers and advocates who wear patient story paintings on the backs of business suits. Paint and patients, pills and policy all come together within The Walking Gallery of Healthcare. This "walking wall" of 400+ individuals who wear personal patient narrative paintings on their backs is changing minds and opening hearts. They are attending medical conferences where often there isn't a patient speaker on the dais or in the audience. They are providing a patient voice, and by doing so, are changing the conversation.