Healthcare & Medical Conference Speakers
Speakers who understand the science and the humanity.
The best healthcare keynotes don't just inform — they inspire the people who carry the hardest work in the world. We represent physicians, scientists, researchers, and health innovators who can move a room of medical professionals as readily as a room of general leaders.
Why Outspoken
Healthcare audiences are the most discerning in the world. We know that.
Clinicians and researchers can spot a shallow talk from the first slide. The speakers we represent for healthcare events have earned their expertise the hard way — in labs, in conflict zones, in operating rooms, in their own bodies. We match carefully, and we don't oversell.
Tell us about your event and audience and we'll respond within one business day.
01 Clinician-ready credentials
Every speaker on this page has the expertise to hold their own in front of physicians, researchers, and clinical leaders — not just general audiences.
02 Matched to your specialty
A talk for a nursing leadership conference needs a different speaker than one for a precision medicine summit. We ask the right questions before making any recommendation.
03 We handle all logistics
Contracts, travel, AV requirements, pre-event preparation calls. Your program committee should focus on content — we handle everything else.
04 One business day response
Healthcare conference timelines are tight. We respond quickly, communicate clearly, and never make you chase us.
Dr. David Fajgenbaum
PHYSICIAN-SCIENTIST | PATIENT ADVOCATE | PENN MEDICINE
Rare Disease ★ AI & Drug Repurposing ★ Resilience
One of the youngest faculty members ever to receive tenure at Penn Medicine. TIME100 Health 2025. During his third year of medical school, David Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with a rare disease, received last rites five times, studied his own charts between hospitalizations, and discovered a repurposed treatment that saved his life. He then co-founded the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and Every Cure, which uses AI and computational pharmacophenomics to unlock hidden cures from existing drugs for the 7,000+ rare diseases that remain untreated. Author of the national bestselling memoir Chasing My Cure (being adapted into a film). Named alongside Nobel Laureates at the 2022 NDRI Service to Science Award. His story sits at the intersection of medicine, AI, and sheer human will, and it never fails to move a room of physicians to their feet.
Dr. Brittany Barreto
MOLECULAR GENETICIST | FOUNDER, FEMTECH INSIGHTS | GATES FOUNDATION INNOVATION CHAIR
FemTech ★ Women’s Health Innovation ★ Health Equity
A molecular geneticist with a PhD from Baylor College of Medicine, serial entrepreneur, early-stage venture investor, and the foremost global authority on women's health innovation. Founder of FemHealth Insights, host of the world's #1 FemTech podcast (100+ countries), Forbes contributor, and Chair of the Innovation Committee at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her keynote asks the questions that every healthcare audience should be sitting with: Why were women excluded from clinical trials until 1993? What does the rising US maternal mortality rate tell us about systemic failures? Where is the most transformative innovation happening in women's health right now, and who's funding it? Essential for OB-GYN, nursing, hospital leadership, and any healthcare conference serious about health equity.
Dr. Cori Lathan
NEUROSCIENTIST | AUTHOR, INVENTING THE FUTURE | AGING EXPERT
Medtech Innovation ★ Neuroscience ★ AI & Healthcare
MIT PhD neuroscientist. Co-founder of AnthroTronix — a woman-owned biomedical R&D firm that delivered DARPA, NASA, NIH, and NSF projects for 22 years, developing everything from robots for children with disabilities to an FDA-cleared brain performance platform that won a Gold Edison Award. MIT Technology Review Top 100 Innovators. Fast Company Most Creative People. Permanently installed in a Smithsonian exhibit on women in STEM. Now CEO of De Oro Devices and bestselling author of Inventing the Future: Stories from a Techno-Optimist. Her keynote on AI, neuroscience, and human performance is a rallying call for optimism in healthcare — showing that technology, when designed to amplify human capability rather than replace it, produces the most extraordinary results in medicine and beyond.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick
BIOMEDICIAL SCIENCE | FOUNDER, FOUNDMYFITNESS | AGING EXPERT
Longevity Science ★ Nutrition ★ Disease Prevention
PhD in Biomedical Science from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, with graduate research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigating mitochondrial metabolism, apoptosis, and cancer. Postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute on aging and protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disease. Associate scientist at the Fatty Acid Research Institute. Published in Nature Cell Biology, FASEB Journal, Experimental Gerontology, and Science. Founder of FoundMyFitness — which reaches millions through long-form, evidence-based content on nutrition, aging, and disease prevention. Has testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. Called "the best health educator in America" by attendees of the Vibrant Longevity Summit. She translates cutting-edge longevity science into actionable clinical and lifestyle strategies — making her one of the highest-impact speakers available for medical, wellness, and preventive medicine conferences.
Dr. Jessica Shepherd
BOARD-CERTIFIED OB/GYN | CMO, HERS | GOOD MORNING AMERICA REGULAR
Women’s Longevity ★ Menopause ★ Health Equity
Board-certified OB/GYN, FACOG, MBA. Chief Medical Officer of Hers. Former Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at University of Illinois at Chicago. Founder of Sanctum Med + Wellness. Author of Generation M: Living Well in Perimenopause and Menopause—a chart-topping guide redefining the clinical narrative around menopause and women's longevity. A regular on-air contributor to Good Morning America and frequently featured on The Today Show, CNN, LIVE with Kelly and Mark, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan. Passionate about addressing health disparities in women's care—particularly for Black women, who face systemic inequities in menopause care, maternal health, and fibroid treatment. Her keynote combines clinical authority, lived experience, and accessible warmth in a way that resonates equally with OB/GYN departments and general leadership audiences.
Dr. Samantha Nutt
FOUNDER, WAR CHILD CANADA/USA | BEST-SELLING AUTHOR | LEADING ACTIVIST
Global Health ★ Humanitarian Medicine ★ Public Health & Aid
Medical doctor. McMaster summa cum laude. MSc in Public Health with distinction from the University of London. Fellowship in Community Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Women's Health Scholar at University of Toronto. Staff physician at Women's College Hospital, Toronto. And the founder of War Child Canada and War Child USA—organizations that have worked with children and families in over two dozen conflict zones from Iraq to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor. Named one of Canada's Five Leading Activists by TIME. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. 2025 inductee into Canada's Walk of Fame. Her TED Talk on the impact of small arms has over one million views. For public health, global health, and medical humanitarian conferences, Dr. Nutt brings the field's most compelling combination of clinical authority and firsthand frontline experience.
Suneel Gupta
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR | HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL VISITING SCHOLAR | FOUNDER OF RISE (ACQUIRED BY AMAZON)
Burnout ★ Energy Management ★ Resilience
Founding CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company named "App of the Year," partnered with Michelle Obama, and ultimately acquired by Amazon via One Medical. Now a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School researching the connection between inner wellbeing and outer leadership. Two-time international bestselling author: Backable (named "The New Face of Innovation" by the NYSE) and Everyday Dharma, both translated into nine languages. Host of the American Express Business Class documentary series on Amazon Prime. U.S. Emissary for Gross National Happiness between the United States and Bhutan. His central question, "How can an organization excel on the outside if its people are exhausted on the inside?", lands with particular power for healthcare leaders managing the most severe burnout epidemic the medical profession has ever seen. His science-backed, story-rich, emotionally resonant keynote is the antidote to grit-culture in clinical settings.
Dr. Rina Bliss
RUTGERS SOCIOLOGIST | AUTHOR | GENETIC SCIENCES RESEARCHER
Genetics & Intelligence ★ Health Equity ★ AI & Medicine
Associate Professor at Rutgers, NSF-funded researcher, Human Genome Synthesis Project member, and consultant to the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Her book Rethinking Intelligence (HarperCollins) challenges the genetic assumptions baked into clinical assessment and medical AI tools. Her latest, What's Real About Race?, directly confronts the misuse of genetic data in healthcare and the fictions about race that continue to shape clinical outcomes. For medical, nursing, public health, and health equity conferences, especially those grappling with how AI and genomics are being deployed in clinical settings, Rina is the most scientifically rigorous and practically urgent voice available on the topic. Her research has been cited by the National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, and PBS.
Alice Law
COFOUNDER, UNSTRESSABLE (WITH MO GAWDAT) | BEST-SELLING AUTHOR | WELLNESS EXPERT
Stress Mastery ★ Burnout Prevention ★ Resilient Leadership
Co-founder of Unstressable alongside Mo Gawdat — former Chief Business Officer of Google [X] — whose Sunday Times bestselling book Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living (Pan Macmillan, 2024) was named one of The Times' 8 Best Self-Help Books of 2024. Alice is a stress mastery and resilient leadership expert whose mission is to take one million people per year out of stress — working with Meta, FedEx, Fidelity Investments, the British Embassy Washington, and dozens of other organizations. Her methodology integrates neuroscience, emotional processing, and mindfulness into practical tools that work in the highest-pressure environments. For healthcare audiences experiencing the worst burnout crisis in the profession's history, Alice's combination of clinical grounding and genuine human warmth is exactly what the room needs.
Theresa Payton
FIRST WOMAN WHITE HOUSE CIO | CEO, FORTALICE SOLUTIONS | CBS’S HUNTED
AI Strategy ★ Cybersecurity ★ Digital Trust
The first woman to serve as White House Chief Information Officer, a patented inventor, author of Manipulated (Guardian Top 10 Cybercrime Books), and the intelligence expert behind CBS's Hunted. CEO of Fortalice Solutions, a Forbes-featured firm that advises Fortune 500 healthcare organizations and government agencies on AI strategy and digital security. She translates AI and cybersecurity from technical complexity into clinical and administrative reality, making her one of the most valuable speakers available for healthcare IT conferences, hospital leadership summits, and medical association events wrestling with the real-world risks and opportunities of AI adoption in clinical settings. Her keynotes consistently rank as the highest-rated session at healthcare conferences.
Gitanjali Rao
MIT INVENTOR | UNICEF YOUTH ADVOCATE | FIRST-EVER TIME KID OF THE YEAR
Public Health Equity ★ Innovation ★ Youth Leadership
Named TIME's first-ever Kid of the Year, Gitanjali Rao built a low-cost, AI-powered device to detect lead contamination in drinking water, motivated by the Flint, Michigan water crisis at age 11. She has since created solutions for opioid addiction early detection and cyberbullying detection, mentored over 150,000 young inventors in 55 countries through her STEM programs, and been named a UNICEF Youth Advocate. Now a student at MIT. Her keynote is a rare opportunity for healthcare audiences: an inventor who grew up surrounded by the health consequences of environmental injustice, who chose technology as a tool of equity, and who now teaches others how to do the same. Powerful for pediatric, public health, and innovation-focused medical events and for any healthcare organization trying to inspire the next generation of practitioners.
Event types we serve
Every healthcare event, every audience level.
Hospital & Health System Events
Leadership summits, town halls, nursing conferences, and grand rounds — from community hospitals to academic medical centers.
Research Conferences
Academic medical research conferences, NIH-funded program events, and clinical trials conferences across all therapeutic areas.
Nursing & Allied Health
Nursing leadership conferences, allied health professional development events, and interprofessional education summits.
Medical Associations
AMA, specialty society annual meetings, state medical association conferences, and physician leadership programs.
HR & People Teams
Global health conferences, health equity summits, CDC and WHO-adjacent events, and state and local public health leadership programs.
Women's Health Events
OB-GYN conferences, women's health association meetings, maternal health summits, and menopause and longevity events.
Pharmaceutical & Biotech
National sales meetings, R&D leadership events, and scientific advisory board keynotes for pharma and biotech organizations.
Health IT & Digital Health
HiMSS-adjacent conferences, health AI summits, EHR and clinical informatics events, and digital health innovation days.
Frequently Asked Questions
What healthcare event planners ask us most.
What makes a great keynote for a medical or healthcare conference?
Healthcare audiences want speakers who have earned the right to be in the room — through research, clinical experience, or lived experience that is directly relevant to the conference theme. The best medical keynotes combine credible expertise with genuine storytelling, leaving attendees with something they can apply, share, or think about differently the next morning. Tell us your theme and audience and we'll help you find that match.
What healthcare topics are most in demand for conferences right now?
In 2026, the highest-demand topics for healthcare conferences are AI and digital transformation in clinical settings, physician and nurse burnout and sustainable performance, women's health and longevity (especially menopause and health equity), rare disease and precision medicine, and global health and humanitarian medicine. The right topic depends on your specialty and audience — share your conference details and we'll narrow it down.
Do your speakers work for both clinical and non-clinical healthcare audiences?
Yes — and matching speaker to audience level is one of the most important things we do. Dr. Fajgenbaum and Dr. Patrick speak with equal authority to physicians and to general healthcare leadership audiences. Dr. Shepherd is exceptional for both OB-GYN conferences and women's leadership events. Theresa Payton is one of the most effective AI speakers specifically for non-technical healthcare executives. We'll help you figure out who fits which room.
How do I book a speaker for a medical association annual meeting or hospital event?
Fill out our speaker inquiry form with your event date, specialty or conference theme, audience type (physicians, nurses, executives, mixed), and budget range. We respond within one business day with specific recommendations and handle all contracting and logistics from there.
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