Matthew Zachary: The People's Voice In | Entertainer • Speaker • Provocateur • Advocate • Cancer Rebel • Influencer of Things • Host of Out of Patients, a Top-10 Healthcare Podcast

~ About Matthew Zachary ~

Matthew Zachary is an American advocate passionate about putting the patient at the center of every conversation. Why? He is one. Diagnosed as a college senior with brain cancer, he wasn't sure he'd make his next birthday. That was 27 years ago.

Matthew is one of todays’ most respected, influential, and visionary voices in healthcare with a storied career spanning entertainment, advertising, marketing, nonprofit, digital health, public policy, life sciences, and broadcast media.

As the Founder of the award-winning nonprofit Stupid Cancer, Matthew birthed the young adult cancer movement, which improved the lives of millions of cancer patients in their teens, 20s, and 30s. Matthew is also co-founder and chair of OffScrip Health, a prestige documentary podcast studio where he hosts "Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary," a Top-10 Healthcare Podcast.

Matthew Zachary is the irreverent, informed friend you WISH you could talk to when the US healthcare system has you screaming or crying.

– Susannah Fox, Former CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

~ Keynote Presentations ~

Fortune 500 companies and clients worldwide choose Matthew for his unapologetic authenticity, neurotic intellectualism, oddball theatricality, and mesmerizing talent. Matthew's unlikely lived experience—from social entrepreneur, visionary creative, and culture-shifting provocateur to patient advocate, nonprofit leader, concert pianist, cancer survivor, and incomparable storyteller—captivates and transforms audiences of all shapes and sizes.

"THE PEOPLE'S VOICE IN HEALTHCARE."

"A PIONEER AND PROVOCATEUR."

"AN IMCOMPARABLE STORYTELLER."

"A CANCER REBEL."

"MZ IS WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO."

"A TOP-10 HEALTHCARE CELEBRITY."

"Matthew should be on everyone's list of the top ten celebrity speakers in healthcare. He is engaging, inspirational, personable, hysterical, and very, very real."

– Stonybrook University Cancer Center

"Matthew spoke at our Specialty Summit and his story, expertise, and comedic Gen-X bent brought an entire audience of executives to tears, cheers, and back again."

– Magellan Rx Management

~ Podcast and Documentary Series ~

Out of Patients is an acclaimed no-BS show about making healthcare suck less. Each week, MZ and his guests sardonically deconstruct endless shenanigans in terms that normal humans can understand, along with a healthy dose of 80s nostalgia and random pop culture references.

Attention narrative history junkies! Did you know the Black Panthers were breast cancer advocates and that a $250K full-page ad in the NY Times shamed President Nixon into giving a damn about cancer? Learn how 50 years of advocacy shaped today's narrative on the US healthcare system.

"My doctor may have cured me,
but Stupid Cancer saved my life."

– Jessica M.

"It is because of you that I found out about
surrogacy and now have a happy, healthy daughter."

– Karen M.

"You were the first to show me that you
can do more than just survive.”

– Kelly P.