Health Literacy Speaker

Karen Komondor, RN, BSN, CCRN is the Founder and President of Health Literacy 360 LLC, whose mission is to reduce communication barriers within the complex healthcare system and decrease the burden on patients.

For over 20 years, Karen served as the Director of Organizational Development and the Health Literacy Institute at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, an urban teaching hospital in the heart of downtown Cleveland, Ohio until its closing in Nov. 2022. Karen has provided training and keynote speeches at numerous healthcare facilities and conferences at the local, state, and national levels over the last two decades. She has authored several articles and has been a guest speaker for radio programs and local TV Stations as well as the National Academy of Medicine’s Round Table on Health Literacy in Washington D.C. She is also a regular guest faculty for health literacy at multiple universities.
She is the former chair of Healthy Cleveland’s Health Literacy Committee and is past president and co-founder of Ohio Health Literacy Partners, a state-wide, non-profit collaborative whose mission is to empower all Ohioans to make informed health choices. She is most recently chair of the National Council to Improve Patient Safety through Health Literacy.