Jan Geissler

CEO, Patvocates

Jan Geissler has been a cancer survivor, patient advocate and patient engagement expert for 23 years. He is founder and CEO of Patvocates, a think tank and social consultancy on patient advocacy and patient engagement, as well as founder and managing director of the European Patient Advocacy Institute. He acted as Director of the European Patients Academy (EUPATI). Jan co-founded the patient organisations LeukaNET, European Cancer Patient Coalition, CML Advocates Network, Acute Leukemia Advocates Network and WECAN (the network of pan-European cancer patient organisations). Jan is a committee member e.g. of the European Cancer Organisation PAC, the European Hematology Association PAC, the strategy board of the German National Decade Against Cancer, and he serves as a lay member of the Ethics Committee of the Bavarian Chamber of Physicians. He is a trustee of the HARMONY Foundation and Leukemia Patient Advocates Foundation and is involved in the EU/IHI-funded projects SafePolyMed, T2EVOLVE and SYNTHIA. In 2016, he was awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his work as a patient advocate.

Updated: October 2024