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Cheree Cleghorn Biography 
At the Washington Hospital Center, a free-standing teaching hospital and one the nation’s busiest, her duties involved working closely with full-time and attending physicians and in a variety of ways with patients. Her duties included communicating with patient and families, the media and the general public, as well as other assignments that took her into operations throughout her career.
She completed her institutional career in a Virginia community-based healthcare system. It was there, in the 1990s, she realized the system wasn’t just broken at the tertiary level. Health care was hurting at the acute care level too----and hurting patients in the process.
With the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s, “To Err Is Human: Crossing The Quality Chasm,” she found confirmation for that view.
Since 2000, she has been working on how to find a way to help patients and physicians work together despite the healthcare system’s dysfunction. How To Speak Doctor ™ is one result. The other is a new website, whose focus is on actionable information patients need to work with their doctors, nurses and other caregivers. Her first career was as a reporter for The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N.C., covering business and labor, then medicine.
Now editor and publisher of The Patient Report.com, and the creator of How To Speak Doctor ™, she lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Reese, former dean and now professor at the University of Maryland College of Journalism, College Park, Md.
Cheree holds a B.A. in political science from Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. She completed two years of graduate study at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, winning an award for investigative reporting. She has been listed in Who’s Who in the East and Who’s Who of American Women. She was a Healthy Communities Fellow.
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