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.

Dr. Michele Harper

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

Steve Silberman

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

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

John Carreyrou

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Bad Blood

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

Kristen Iversen

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

Emily Ladau

Disability rights activist, writer, and speaker

Dr. Matt McCarthy

Bestselling author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic and Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Dani Shapiro

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

Dr. Dana Suskind

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

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

Ed Yong

Pulitzer Prize winning science staff writer for The Atlantic