Vanessa Carter

ePatient speaker and founder of hcsmSA (Health Care Social Media South Africa)

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

Vanessa is a design thinker and entrepreneur with 20 years in advertising and 10 years of patient experience in the private and public health sector in South Africa due to a face reconstruction. She is an international ePatient speaker and a digital health activist. She is the founder of #hcsmSA (Health Care Social Media South Africa), which is a Twitter community she hopes will connect all aspects of healthcare into one dedicated social network. Connecting health may improve holistic data for genomics, education, access to treatment, online participation and innovation. Read more about her work here: www.vanessacarter.co.za