Tracy Steffek,
speaker on cancer care, community systems, and the patient experience.

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What to Expect

Keynotes and interactive workshops for health system leaders, oncology teams, life sciences, and population health audiences from someone who has designed and worked inside the community systems and been the patient inside of the health system.

❋ Continuity of Care is a Design Choice:
Why Fragmentation Persists and How To Stop Designing for It

Adapted for executive audiences. Fragmentation isn’t an accident. It’s a design outcome. Participants map where responsibility lands on patients and communities and where authority, funding, and accountability actually sit.

❋ Having Partnerships Is Not
the Same As Having Integration

What it takes to turn community relationships into care infrastructure: governance, workflows, shared metrics, and accountability. Built for cancer centers, health systems, and payers.

❋ The Patient Experience the System Doesn't See

What cancer patients carry between appointments, and what health systems can redesign. This includes the realities of breast & head and neck cancer and what changes day to day.

❋ Parenting Through Cancer

What families with children face during treatment, and why so little of it shows up in how care is designed. 1 in 5 newly diagnosed cancer patients is also parenting minor children.

Tracy Steffek, Founder of Remedy & Root, speaking before a group of people in Washington, D.C.
Tracy Steffek, Founder of Remedy & Root, speaking before a group of people in Washington, D.C.
Professional headhot of Tracy Steffek, Founder of Remedy & Root
Professional headhot of Tracy Steffek, Founder of Remedy & Root

  • Keynote: 30 to 60 minutes

  • Interactive workshop: 60 to 90 minutes, with participant exercises. About half the time is spent working, not listening.

  • Half-day leadership session: for executive teams and boards

  • Panel or fireside conversation

Every talk can be tailored to your audience: health system executives, oncology teams, life sciences, payers, public health, or patient advocacy.

Formats

Recent Stages

  • 18th World Congress on Public Health, Cape Town, 2026: "Co-Design in Continuity of Care: Why Fragmentation Persists and How We Can Stop Designing for It" (60-minute interactive session)

  • ASCO Annual Meeting 2026: sponsored patient voice representative

  • National Health Council, Science of Patient Engagement Summit: “Closing the Gap Between Clinical Care and Community Supports: A Systems Integration Framework” (poster)

  • Conferences, trainings, and site visits for states, counties, and community coalitions nationally

Tracy Steffek, Founder of Remedy & Root, at the World Congress on Public Health in Cape Town.

About Tracy

Tracy Steffek, MPA, is the founder of Remedy & Root and a double cancer survivor. For nearly two decades, she has designed systems across county government, national organizations, and community coalitions. At the national level, she built a peer support model adopted across several states and the VA. She serves on the board of the Patient Empowerment Network. Her writing on care integration appears on her Substack, @Remedy & Root.

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Bring the patient’s view and the system’s change view into the same room.

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