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. Uché Blackstock

Founder and Chief Advisor of Advancing Health Equity, emergency physician, and New York Times-bestselling author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Dr. Mona Hanna

Physician, scientist and activist who exposed the Flint water crisis

Dr. Michele Harper

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

Carl Zimmer

New York Times columnist and award-winning science journalist

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Cat Bohannon

Researcher and New York Times bestselling author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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

Dr. Thomas Fisher

Emergency room physician and author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

Marc Goodman

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

Dr. Thomas Insel

Neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology

Dr. Matt McCarthy

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

Barry Meier

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter behind the Netflix hit, “Painkiller”

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 and Parent Nation

Gary Taubes

Science and health journalist, nutrition expert, and bestselling author

Hadley Vlahos

Hospice nurse, palliative care advocate, author of New York Times bestseller The In-Between

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically-acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste

Ed Yong

Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author of An Immense World
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau