|
About Dr Savard
Marie Savard,
M.D. is an internationally known internist and women’s health
expert, author and champion for patient rights and
responsibilities. She
is the founder of
The Savard System
and author of two highly acclaimed books, How
to Save Your Own Life: The Savard System for Managing—and
Controlling—Your Health Care and The
Savard Health Record: a six-step system for managing your health
care.
Dr. Savard earned her BS
degree in nursing at the University of
Pennsylvania and continued on at the university to earn her MD
degree. She
completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in general
internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Science
Center.
Dr. Savard has
been director of the Center for Women’s Health, an associate
professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann
Hospital, and technical advisor to the United Nations Fourth
World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
She has also served as a member of the American Board of
Internal Medicine’s Subcommittee on Clinical Competency in
Women’s Health.
Dr. Savard has
appeared before medical groups, corporations, government
hearings, civic organizations, and the general public to speak
about the importance of the individual’s role in managing
one’s own health care. She
has been a health columnist for Woman’s Day magazine and is
currently the senior medical consultant to the Lifetime TV
series Strong
Medicine. She
is a frequent guest on radio and television and appeared
regularly on the national TV talk show “Iyanla”.
Philadelphia Magazine has included her in its listing of
outstanding physicians since the 1980’s.
Dr. Savard is
recognized as one of the outstanding physicians in the
Philadelphia area, where she is an internist, expert in medical
malpractice cases and medical director and family doctor for the
Cabrini Nursing Home for missionary nuns.
She was appointed vice chair of the Pennsylvania Women's
Commission by former Governor Thomas Ridge.
She lives in
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Bradley Fenton, M.D.,
and their three sons.
"On behalf of Living Beyond Breast Cancer, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your very informative and compassionate presentation to our Young Survivors. The Savard Health Record is such a wonderful and useful tool for all women (men and children, too) to have to help them manage their personal healthcare needs. You enhanced the participants' education in an area that is not discussed or modeled by the physicians and health care professionals who treat them. You have empowered this group of women to advocate for themselves in a very meaningful manner."
- Elyse S. Caplan, MA, Education and Outreach
Coordinator
|
