Geri Baumblatt

Geri Lynn Baumblatt is an industry expert on shared decision making and patient engagement. For the past 11 years she’s overseen the creation of a large library of multimedia patient engagement, education, shared decision making, and behavior change Emmi programs and interactive phone calls. These programs have won numerous awards including Freddie Awards, the IHA Health Literacy Award, the Frank Netter Award, ClearMark Plain Language Awards, and the 4th Annual Leonard G. Doak Health Literacy Innovator Award.
She also hosts an annual Health Literacy Month blog series on Engaging the Patient. She regularly speaks and serves on health literacy and shared decision making panels for organizations like AHRQ, the Institute for Healthcare Advancement, Health Literacy Missouri, and the Center for Plain Language and recently joined the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Experience. She works with decision scientists, behavior change experts, patients, and clinicians; they draw on their research and experience to create content that helps patients engage in their care. She holds a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Denver.