Martine Ehrenclou is an award-winning author, patient advocate and speaker. Author of the multiple award-winning, Critical Conditions, and her newest health book, The Take-Charge Patient, Martine is focused on empowering patients so they become experts on how navigate and take charge of their medical care. Her mission is to bring to light the importance of being an advocate for others and for ourselves. Through her books, published articles, media interviews, and lectures, Martine Ehrenclou reveals insider information on how to work the healthcare system for the patient's benefit.

Through her extensive research and her own recent chronic pain medical condition, Martine learned firsthand how to be a take-charge patient by using her own strategies in her new book. She went from author and advocate for others to an advocate for herself. After seeing eleven physicians, undergoing nine procedures and surgeries, being prescribed twenty-two medications, she finally found a doctor who diagnosed her correctly and cured her medical condition.

Martine writes monthly articles for several health websites, regularly publishes articles on the topics of patient empowerment, patient advocacy, patient safety and other health/medical related issues. She is interviewed regularly on national TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, including ABC News, Woman ’s Day, Family Circle, Publishers Weekly, and many more. Martine also lectures at universities, hospitals, organizations and libraries, and writes a monthly blog.