An accomplished presenter and compassionate advocate, Alida Brill is available to speak at conferences, meetings, and conventions.

Select subjects include:
- Living above and beyond the challenges of chronic illness and life's difficulties
- Mothers and daughters and chronic illness
- Relationships
- Patient-doctor dialogue
- Love, Loss and Relationships

Her talks and workshops have included keynote addresses and "inspirational" conference lectures.  A select list includes: 

- My Shadow Career in Medicine
- Alone/Together: Navigating Love and Loss
- You are Not a Footnote. You are the Text of your Life!
- Embracing Pain, And Claiming Your Identity ..Again
- Mother/Daughter/Daughter/Mother:  Strategies for Love, Caregiving and Coping Inside Families With Chronic Illness and Disability
- Keeping Our Own Time: The Meaning of A Different Life's Clock
- I am Still ME!  (especially appropriate for younger audiences)  

Please contact Alida at Alidabrill@gmail.com to discuss your needs and requirements.

Testimonials: 

"I have been in academic rheumatology at the NIH, Johns Hopkins and Hospital For Special Surgery for over 30 years and have heard many lectures about the impact of autoimmune and chronic illnesses on people by the “best in the business”. However, I have never been so spellbound and brought to tears about these subjects than when I heard about it from Alida Brill on two occasions. One was when she delivered an hour lecture to our first year Weill/Cornell medical students (view video here) as a mandatory part of their second year physical diagnosis course and the second was in The New York Society Library (view video here). Her ability to distill years of personal experiences into the most lucid, crystal-clear, nuanced and thoughtful words and phrases were unique in my experience. This derives from her brilliance as a person and writer. Her economy of language and ability to capture the essence of feelings into just the perfect phrasing is awe-inspiring. Some people are great speakers because they move the audience by their commitment to the topic, their life experiences and their ability to profoundly change feelings forever. Alida is one of those."
—Stephen A. Paget, MD, FACP, FACR
Physician-in-Chief Emeritus, Chairman of the Division of Rheumatology
Hospital for Special Surgery, NY, NY