Ian Slade, MBA, RN

Ian Slade started his healthcare journey as a trauma nurse when he was 19 years old. Ian identifies himself as a patient advocate first and a technologist second. His true passion is to help the underserved and underprivileged. In the past 20 years, Ian has served as a HIT consultant in more than 30 hospitals in the U.S., Canada and the UK. For more than half a decade, Ian has been the face of advocacy for Southern California. Ian has helped unite the Northern California and Southern California advocacy groups, coordinating advocacy efforts for patients, healthcare technology and hospitals in the halls of Sacramento and the corridors of Capitol Hill.