Doris C. Schmitt has studied pedagogy and psychology.
She is a freelance consultant and speaker for pharmaceutical companies and communications trainer for cancer patients and health care professionals. When diagnosed with breast cancer, she became aware of the importance of adequate information about the disease and the challenges cancer patients are facing when talking to their doctors. Several of her articles about the importance of effective doctor-patient communication have been published in German and English media. Therefore she was offered a membership with VMWJ as medical journalist.
Since June 2008 she is member of the board of the worldwide only patient driven breast cancer bio bank PATH and member of the Executive Team EUPATI Germany.