Michael
Michael Seres
Founder
Michael Seres is the Founder of 11 health. Having been diagnosed with the incurable bowel condition Crohn’s Disease aged 12, he has battled all his life with illness, recently being diagnosed with lymphoma. In late 2011 this came to a head and he became the 11th person to undergo a small bowel transplant in the UK at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. It was then that he was given a temporary stoma.
He started blogging about his journey through Bowel Transplant and his blog now has over 100,000 followers. He decided to use social media to develop global online peer to peer communities: covering over 20,000 patients. He also devises social media strategies around patient engagement. He is now the patient lead for the main UK health twitter chat #NHSSM, a published author and a professional speaker, a member of the NHS England Digital Services user council, the digital strategy advisor to the Oxford Transplant Foundation where he helped implement the first skype clinics and finally he is an ambassador to the Doctors 2.0 conference.
In 2013 he founded the health tech start up 11 health and has developed sensor technology for ostomy patients.