Advocating At The Doctors With Ragen Chastain

Advocating At The Doctors With Ragen Chastain

In this practical session, learn how to advocate for your own weight inclusive health care with Ragen Chastain, a tireless advocate for eradicating weight stigma in medical settings. Bring along your real-life issues with self-advocacy in medical situations, and under Ragen’s expert guidance you’ll learn exactly what to do to in order to ensure that you’re getting top notch health care, no matter what the situation!

Meet Your Presenter Ragen Chastain

Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, researcher, Board Certified Patient Advocate, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, health, and healthcare. Utilizing her background in research methods and statistics, Ragen has brought her signature mix of humor and hard facts to healthcare, corporate, conference, and college audiences from Kaiser Permanente, to Amazon and Google, to Dartmouth, Cal Tech and canfitpro. Author of the Weight and Healthcare newsletter, co-author of HAES Health Sheets, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size, Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in print, radio, television, and documentary film. In her free time, Ragen is a national dance champion, triathlete, and marathoner who holds the Guinness World Record for Heaviest Woman to Complete a Marathon. Ragen lives in LA with her fiancée Julianne and their adorable dog.