Gilles Frydman has been a pioneer of online health communities since founding the Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR) in 1995. ACOR has served over 600,000 cancer patients and their caregivers to optimize patient care, for which Gilles was named by CNN in 2008 as one of six Empowered Patients Health Heroes.

He blogs regularly at e-patients.net, is a frequent speaker to healthcare audiences in the U.S. and France, and has appeared in many publications ranging from the British Medical Journal to The Wall Street Journal.