Dave Bjork's guest appearances

Dave Bjork

The Health Design Podcast

Bump In The Road

Life Science Success

Chris Lewis

Yan Leyfman

Michael Bungay Stanier

David DuChemin

BJ Miller

Mark Lewis

Cheryl Janis

Mark Gordon

Ronald Epstein

Chris Yeh

Bernie Siegel

Ray Price

Tom Cronin

Erik Weihenmayer

Tama Kieves

OwlTail

Dave Bjork was a healthy young man pursuing his banking career when he came down with what seemed like pneumonia. But it was lung cancer. Medicine saved Dave’s life, but that life was forever changed. The experience led to a change of careers and his podcast, The Research Evangelist, which covers medical professionals who are “Brilliant but not famous.” This is a great story, celebrating research, people, and most of all, life. The full story at BumpInTheRoad.us Special thanks to CVS Health

Dave Bjork was a healthy young man pursuing his banking career when he came down with what seemed like pneumonia. But it was lung cancer. Medicine saved Dave’s life, but that life was forever changed. The experience led to a change of careers and his podcast, The Research Evangelist, which covers medical professionals who are “Brilliant but not famous.” This is a great story, celebrating research, people, and most of all, life. The full story at <a href="http://BumpInTheRoad.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BumpInTheRoad.us</a> Special thanks to CVS Health

Dave Bjork: Research Evangelist

This week's guest is Dave Bjork the Research Evangelist. He is a Patient Advocate, Lung Cancer Survivor, Speaker and Advisor. His career spans more than 20 years of progressive experience in nonprofit marketing, patient advocacy and fundraising leadership roles including Vice President of Development, National Foundation for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MD. In this role, He launched several fundraising and advocacy programs and became known as the “Cancer Research Evangelist” because of his dedication and commitment to basic scientific research. He also hosts the Research Evangelist Podcast.  

<p>This week's guest is Dave Bjork the Research Evangelist. He is a Patient Advocate, Lung Cancer Survivor, Speaker and Advisor. His career spans more than 20 years of progressive experience in nonprofit marketing, patient advocacy and fundraising leadership roles including Vice President of Development, National Foundation for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MD. In this role, He launched several fundraising and advocacy programs and became known as the “Cancer Research Evangelist” because of his dedication and commitment to basic scientific research. He also hosts the Research Evangelist Podcast.  </p>

Dave Bjork is a patient advocate and research evangelist with more than 20 years of progressive experience in nonprofit advocacy, community-building and fundraising leadership roles. He is currently a consultant on the Patient Driven Design team at Medidata Solutions advising on bringing the patient voice to the clinical trial experience. Dave is also host of the Research Evangelist podcast and blog where he interviews people in life sciences that are doing brilliant work in cancer research. Previously Dave served 4 years as Director of Development and Community Relations at FRAXA Research Foundation where he was responsible for building relationships between the Fragile X community and biopharma companies to help advance treatment development in Fragile X syndrome. Before FRAXA Dave spent 4 years as Vice President of Development for National Foundation for Cancer Research where he was responsible for all fundraising and advocacy efforts. A lung cancer survivor, Bjork has made it his life mission to connect patients, biopharma companies, academic institutions and other key influencers to forge strong partnerships to focus on research. He also advocates for and builds bridges between patient groups and the biopharma industry. Bjork earned a BS in Economics and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dave Bjork is a patient advocate and research evangelist with more than 20 years of progressive experience in nonprofit advocacy, community-building and fundraising leadership roles. He is currently a consultant on the Patient Driven Design team at Medidata Solutions advising on bringing the patient voice to the clinical trial experience. Dave is also host of the Research Evangelist podcast and blog where he interviews people in life sciences that are doing brilliant work in cancer research. Previously Dave served 4 years as Director of Development and Community Relations at FRAXA Research Foundation where he was responsible for building relationships between the Fragile X community and biopharma companies to help advance treatment development in Fragile X syndrome. Before FRAXA Dave spent 4 years as Vice President of Development for National Foundation for Cancer Research where he was responsible for all fundraising and advocacy efforts. <br><br>A lung cancer survivor, Bjork has made it his life mission to connect patients, biopharma companies, academic institutions and other key influencers to forge strong partnerships to focus on research. He also advocates for and builds bridges between patient groups and the biopharma industry. Bjork earned a BS in Economics and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.