Leslie Michelson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Private Health Management, a patient-focused company committed to helping both individual patients and corporate organizations navigate the American healthcare system. With more than three decades of ground-level experience, he is a former Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, founded several entrepreneurial healthcare companies, and served as CEO of the world’s largest philanthropic organization devoted to prostate cancer research. In The Patient’s Playbook, Michelson teaches how to access effective medical care through a collection of patient narratives and practical research questions.

In conversation with Governor Ed Rendell