Clients & Partners

Here’s what our clients and partners are saying about us:

“Claire possesses a unique skill set to inform and educate about public health policy. Combining her extensive policy analyst expertise with her vast personal experiences as an individual living with a chronic illness, provides her exceptional insight essential to conveying complex concepts to a patient community that is often overwhelmed with information.  The result is an educated community engaged and prepared to best advocate both individually and collectively.”

— Amy Blum, COO National Gaucher Foundation

“During biochemistry class with first-year medical students, Claire has provided an invaluable view of what they may encounter in communicating with patients that have diabetes, even those who are contentious, unresponsive, or uncooperative. She has helped prepare the future physicians to understand their future patients; that is, the students learn the patients’ concerns and the problems they must confront and, most importantly, start thinking about how to earn their trust. And this she does with plenty of humor and candor.”

— Dr. Hiroshi Nakai, Georgetown University Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

“Claire’s lived experience and policy expertise has given her a unique lens through which she evaluates our healthcare system and its challenges. She can identify potential stumbling blocks in both the policy language and policy itself, and consistently makes practical, candid recommendations that avoid these pitfalls. Her insight and willingness to share has provided a window into some of the less understood aspects of healthcare, such as complex health needs, child-to-adult transition, and how mental health is woven into every aspect of chronic and autoimmune disease. She is an excellent, effective communicator, even on complex or sensitive topics. Claire throws all her creativity and drive behind her work, and will excel at any project she approaches.”

— Venice Haynes, PhD, Director of Research & Community Engagement, United States of Care

“As the Director of Patient Engagement for the Chronic Disease Coalition, I have worked closely with Claire as one of our most engaged ambassadors for the organization. Claire is one of the most thoughtful and knowledgeable people I know. She is always willing to contribute her ideas and expertise to the organization as well as to fellow ambassadors. She also is very well versed in healthcare policy, as well as patient experience. Both have been invaluable to our organization."

-- Tatiana Skomski, Director of Patient Engagement, Chronic Disease Coalition