Healthcare + Medicine Speakers

Our expert healthcare author speakers share personal stories, in-depth research, and lessons from medical history to challenge conventionally held ideas about care, compassion, policy, and more.

Steve Silberman

Award-winning science writer and New York Times-bestselling author of NeuroTribes

Dr. Dana Suskind

Pediatric physician and author of Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

Carl Zimmer

New York Times columnist and award-winning science journalist

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Dr. Nicole Avena

Acclaimed neuroscientist and expert on nutrition, diet, and food addiction

Dr. Sheri Fink

Pulitzer Prize-winning medical journalist and author of Five Days at Memorial, M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford

Marc Goodman

Global security advisor, futurist, and New York Times-bestselling author of Future Crimes

Dr. Michele Harper

Emergency room physician and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Beauty in Breaking

Kristen Iversen

Award-winning author of Full Body Burden and public health speaker

Dr. Shimi Kang, M.D.

Child and youth psychiatrist, human motivation expert, and author of the #1 bestsellers The Dolphin Way and The Self Motivated Kid

Howard Markel, M.D.

Medical historian, M.D., journalist, and award-winning author of An Anatomy of Addiction

Dani Shapiro

Bestselling author of Hourglass and Inheritance, host of the Family Secrets podcast.

Victoria Sweet

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, prize-winning historian, and author of God's Hotel

Dr. W. Lee Warren

Neurosurgeon, Iraq War veteran, and author of I've Seen the End of You