Troy DeJoode
- President of the Carson & Claire Forever Foundation
- Executive Director at Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities
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Iowa
Troy DeJoode Speaker Biography
Troy DeJoode is President of the Carson & Claire Forever Foundation. Troy has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, and a law degree from the University of Iowa. He is licensed to practice law in Iowa and Florida. He speaks frequently about resilience, the patient and family experiences in healthcare, the miracle of organ donation, and the importance of living in the moment. Troy lives in Nevada, Iowa with his wife, Michelle and six dogs; Kota, Briggs, Lilly, Coal, Ava and Sunny. Between them, they have six children: Bretton, Dylan, Ashlynn, Carson, Chase and Claire. In real life, Troy is Executive Director of the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities, and a recovering lawyer.
Transforming Patient Experience: The Moments That Matter
Troy experienced that which no father or husband should have to live through after a truck ran a stop sign crashing into the family minivan hospitalizing his three-year-old son Chase, taking the lives of his five-year-old son Carson and five-month-old daughter Claire, and leaving their mother Heather in a coma with a traumatic brain injury.
Come along as Troy takes the audience on an amazing journey of perseverance from tragedy and adversity to hope and healing. Mixing humor and reflection, in a conversational style, Troy makes a deeply personal and unimaginable tragedy relatable delivering both tears and laughter, while recounting the story of the fantastic care and compassion shown to his family during the time when he had four family members on four different floors in two different hospitals. Most importantly Troy reflects on the moments that truly mattered.
