Speaking & Media
Practical education that bridges the gap between patients and the healthcare system.
Victoria Killian, BCPA, is a Board Certified Patient Advocate, educator, speaker, and founder of Chronically Advocating. Through engaging virtual presentations, she helps healthcare professionals, employers, nonprofits, patient communities, and advocacy organizations better understand the realities of navigating today’s healthcare system.
Drawing from both professional advocacy experience and lived experience navigating complex chronic illness, Victoria delivers practical, evidence-informed presentations that combine real-world stories with actionable strategies audiences can immediately apply.
Why Invite Victoria?
Healthcare is often discussed from the perspective of providers, insurers, or policymakers. Victoria brings another essential perspective: someone who has spent years navigating the healthcare system both personally and professionally.
As a Board Certified Patient Advocate, Victoria works directly with patients and families facing complex medical conditions, insurance barriers, fragmented care, and healthcare systems that can be difficult to navigate. She also understands these challenges firsthand through her own experience living with multiple chronic and rare conditions.
Rather than focusing only on the problems, Victoria helps audiences better understand why these barriers exist and what patients, healthcare professionals, employers, and organizations can do to improve the experience for those navigating care.
Her presentations are practical, engaging, and designed to leave audiences with strategies they can immediately apply.
Speaking Topics
Each presentation can be tailored to the needs of your audience.
Patient Advocacy & Navigating Complex Healthcare Systems
Helping patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals better understand how to navigate fragmented healthcare systems, coordinate care, and advocate effectively throughout the patient journey.
Insurance Denials, Prior Authorization & Access to Care
Understanding why insurance barriers occur, how appeals and denials affect patients, and practical strategies for improving access to medically necessary care.
Chronic Illness, Disability & the Patient Experience
Exploring the realities of living with chronic illness, navigating disability, and managing complex healthcare while identifying opportunities to create more patient-centered systems.
Medical Gaslighting & Patient-Centered Care
Examining how communication, bias, and fragmented care affect patient outcomes while discussing practical approaches to building trust between patients and healthcare professionals.
Healthcare Equity & Systemic Barriers
Understanding how patients experience gaps in care, access barriers, and healthcare inequities, and exploring opportunities to improve outcomes through patient-centered approaches.
Building Better Partnerships Between Patients & Healthcare Professionals
Improving communication, collaboration, and shared decision-making to create stronger relationships between patients, caregivers, and clinical teams.
Presentation Formats
All presentations are currently offered virtually, allowing organizations worldwide to host educational sessions regardless of location.
Presentation formats include:
- Conference presentations
- Educational webinars
- Keynote presentations
- Panel discussions
- Podcasts
- Media interviews
- Live Q&A sessions
- Custom educational presentations
- Post-presentation consulting
Selected Speaking Engagements & Media
Conferences, Webinars & Educational Presentations
- Moments That Changed Me: Discovering Patient Safety Through My Family’s Healthcare Failures
- How to Advocate for Yourself with Your Doctors and Navigate Health Insurance Denials
- Navigating Treatment Denials & Self-Advocacy
Podcasts & Panel Discussions
- Spondycast (Spondylitis Association of America)
- Patient Advocacy Now (Greater National Advocates)
- HealthAdvocateX XCenter Series on Rare Disease
Media Features
- Los Angeles Daily News – Op-ed discussing medication access and California healthcare policy
- Bankrate – Interview discussing rising private health insurance costs
- HealthCentral – Patient advocacy guidance for ankylosing spondylitis
What Audiences Can Expect
Whether speaking to healthcare professionals, employers, advocacy organizations, or patient communities, Victoria’s presentations are designed to help audiences:
- Better understand the patient journey.
- Recognize common barriers within today’s healthcare system.
- Improve communication between patients and healthcare professionals.
- Develop practical strategies for navigating complex healthcare systems.
- Build greater confidence advocating for themselves or those they support.
About Victoria
Victoria Killian is a Board Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA), educator, and founder of Chronically Advocating, an independent patient advocacy practice serving clients nationwide through virtual services.
She combines professional advocacy expertise with firsthand experience navigating complex chronic illness and disability, bringing a unique perspective to healthcare education. Beyond her private advocacy practice, Victoria serves in multiple national advocacy leadership roles and has contributed to patient-centered initiatives focused on healthcare access, rare disease, chronic illness, and health equity.
Her goal is simple: to help patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and organizations better understand the realities of navigating today’s healthcare system and identify practical ways to improve the experience for everyone involved.
Request a Speaking Engagement or Media Interview
Interested in booking Victoria for your conference, webinar, podcast, panel discussion, educational event, or media interview?
Complete the Speaking & Media Inquiry Form, and we’ll be in touch to discuss your event and how we can create a presentation tailored to your audience.