Matthew Zachary is an American advocate passionate about putting the patient at the center of every conversation. Why? He is one. Diagnosed as a college senior with brain cancer, he wasn’t sure he’d make his next birthday. That was 27 years ago.
Hailed by People Magazine as “The People’s Voice in Healthcare,” Matthew is one of today’s most respected, influential, and visionary voices in healthcare with a storied career spanning entertainment, advertising, marketing, nonprofit, digital health, public policy, life sciences, and broadcast media.
As Founder of the award-winning nonprofit Stupid Cancer, Matthew started the young adult cancer movement in 2007 and was christened the “Podfather of Healthcare” for creating The Stupid Cancer Show, the first livestreaming healthcare podcast before podcasts.
He is a Founding Advisor to Google Health, Co-Founder and Chair of OffScrip Health, host of Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary, and the Executive Producer of the award-winning history series, “The Cancer Mavericks.”
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Matthew is currently writing his first book, “Permission To Be Pissed: A Practical Field Guide To American Healthcare,” to be published by Mayo Clinic Press in early 2025
He lives with his wife and twins in Brooklyn