Testimonials for Dr. Gazelle’s public speaking:

Kudos for Dr. Gazelle

"Dr. Gazelle’s workshop on empowering patients was great! Out of the entire conference, hers was the most lively, humorous, thought provoking and full of insights. To see a doctor this impassioned about treating people as partners rather than simply as patients is very inspiring. Dr. Gazelle has a lot to share and she does so in a way that draws the audience right in. I highly recommend her!"

“I have had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Gazelle speak on many occasions. She has a gift for connecting with her audience, mastering the subject matter and conveying it in a way that is enjoyable and memorable. When listening to and learning from Dr. Gazelle It is apparent that she is very knowledgeable about and committed to patient advocacy and palliative care

“Dr. Gazelle's recent presentation to the Brookline community highlighted every patient's need - really every person's need - for an advocate in our increasingly complex medical system. With a physician's mind and with a clear passion for excellence, Dr. Gazelle demonstrated the challenges that clinicians themselves face, so that we, as consumers, understand that it is the system, not the individuals treating us, that need repair. With her words, body language, humor, and compassion, Dr. Gazelle provided guidance for patients so we can enter the system armed with information, skills, questions, and whenever possible, an advocate by our side. The audience was so engaged that we had a hard time getting them to leave at the end!”

“Dr. Gazelle is at the cutting edge of encouraging the public to inform themselves, to ask the proper questions, and become partners in their care. She has the credentials and experience to understand the problems patients experience firsthand and a level of credibility that is huge. She is a gifted and engaging public speaker. Hearing her speak gave me a whole new sense of the power that patients can have. She really motivated the group in a wonderful way.”

“Dr. Gazelle is a wonderful speaker with deep resources of competence, compassion and passion who empowers her audience to move to new heights in their daily practice and in their advocacy for their field.”

“I have yet to meet a more skillful, knowledgeable, and impassioned practitioner and teacher of palliative care than Dr. Gail Gazelle.  She engages the audience on many different levels: intellectual, emotional, spiritual.  Her presentations are always clear-headed, backed with solid research, and enriched with vignettes from her extensive practice.  I would recommend her most highly.”

"Dr. Gazelle gives wonderful talks about care which she can make suitable for patients and relatives or professionals in the field. She has a confident relaxed manner that makes her easy to listen to. What she says is informed both by state-of-the-art technical knowledge and a deep apprecitaion for old fashioned kindness and common sense. Her suggestions for patients and family members go well beyond her specialty and provide wisdom for all of us who will see our own doctors."

“I would like to formally thank you for your presentation on End of Life Care for the Core Curriculum Course.  Your presentation was very well received, mostly 5 on a scale of 1 to 5 (excellent) in terms of quality of the presentation. The major feedback, in terms of how primary care providers will change their practice as a result of the presentation, was that they will refer earlier, and consider referral for noncancer patients more frequently.”

"Dr. Gail Gazelle is such an inspiring and engaging speaker! Her commitment to patient care and her passion for excellence shines through. The conference participants were energized by her clear, and sometimes humorous, presentation. If you are looking for an excellent guide through a complicated area,Dr. Gazelle would be a great choice."

“Gail Gazelle demonstrates a wonderful ability to deliver very important information framed beautifully around their underlying conceptual basis.  I have been fortunate to watch her on many occasions and have never been disappointed.  As an experienced clinician she understands the subtleties of the physician-patient interaction and is able to apply her knowledge to more clearly portray complex topics in healthcare.”

“Thank you kindly for your wonderful presentation to the hospitalist group at Newton Wellesley Hospital. Your extensive experience in hospice and palliative medicine provided a framework for hospitalists to begin to think about the broader role that hospice can provide. The specific topics you covered, including issues related to hospice reimbursement, hospice eligibility criteria, and the skill that hospice providers have in order to relieve suffering were very helpful in arming hospitalists with a better overall understanding of hospice. Additionally, by demonstrating to the group your non-threatening, supportive manner in speaking to patients about hospice for the first time, the hospitalists began to develop a more successful approach to speaking with patients in the future about hospice. We thank you very much for providing such a wonderful introduction to an important topic with which we wrestle every day in our clinical practice.”

“great speaker, excellent expertise on the topic”
“excellent, wonderful, full of information”
“huge success”

Overall rating based on 371 evaluations: 4.56 out of 5.0
Sample comments:
“this was the best teleseminar NHPCO has ever provided”
“the presenter was excellent and made a very complex topic easy to understand. This will help with further education of nurses and physicians who may not have heard the seminar”
“the presenter was outstanding in her ability to clearly transmit this relevant but complicated material”