Leilani Schweitzer
Leilani Schweitzer is a Medical Harm Response Expert and co-founder of CommsCorps, helping health systems and insurers respond to medical harm with compassion, transparency and responsibility.
She came to this work because of her son’s death after a series of medical errors.
For 12 years she worked at Stanford Health Care, where her son died, collaborating with patients, their loved ones, clinicians and attorneys after harm events.
Her lived experience, work at Stanford and hospitals around the US, has given her a unique view of challenges facing healthcare, including harm, disclosure and apologies.
Leilani’s work has been discussed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, on CNN, the Ted Radio Hour and RadioLab podcasts.
Her TedX talk has been viewed more than 240,000 times and is used in curricula around the world.
