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Aspen Ideas Festival

Spotlight Health 2016
  • Ellen Agler
  • Paul Bakus
  • Shoshana Berger
  • Buzz Bissinger
  • Peggy Clark
  • Ken Davis
  • Waqar Ajmal
  • Louise Greenspan
  • Sandra Aamodt - Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt explores new research and its impact on our understanding of ourselves and our lives.
  • Garba Abdul - Director, Vaccines and Government Relations, Clinton Health Access Initiative Nigeria
  • Sam Agbo - Chief of Health and Child Survival and Development, UNICEF Angola
  • Ellen Agler - CEO of the END Fund
  • Waqar Ajmal - Senior Program Officer, Polio Team, Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
  • Bisi Alimi - Executive Director, Bisi Alimi Foundation
  • Tim Andrews - Vice President, Health Team, Booz Allen Hamilton (Festival Underwriter)
  • Ify Aniebo - PhD candidate, Clinical Medicine and Infectious Tropic Diseases, Oxford University
  • Elizabeth Arias - Lead Statistical Analyst, Mortality Statics Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Festival Underwriter)
  • Christie Aschwanden - Lead Science Writer, FiveThirtyEight; Health Columnist, The Washington Post
  • Kirsten Axelsen - Kirsten Axelsen began her career at Pfizer in 2000 in New York Headquarters and has assumed positions of increasing responsibility in public affairs and policy, as well as in management science.
  • Paul Bakus - President Corporate Affairs, Nestlé USA
  • David Baltimore - Nobel Laureate, Medicine, 1975; Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
  • Shoshana Berger - Editorial Director at IDEO
  • Richard Berke - Former executive editor, Politico
  • Seth Berkley - CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Medical Doctor Specializing in Infectious DiseaseEpidemiology and Global Health
  • Steve Beshear - Senior Member, Stites & Harbison; Former Governor, Kentucky
  • Richard Besser - ABC News Senior Health & Medical Editor
  • Jeanette Betancourt - Senior Vice President, Community and Family Engagement, Sesame Workshop
  • Jackie Bezos - Co-Director, Bezos Family Foundation
  • Jay Bhatt - Physician; Chief Health Officer, Illinois Hospital Association
  • Ethan Bier - Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego
  • Buzz Bissinger - Author; Journalist; Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair
  • Jennifer Bloomer - Graduate/Volunteer, Project Welcome Home Troops; Chief Master Sergeant (Ret), US Air Force
  • Jack Bonneau - Founder and CEO, Jack's Stands and Marketplaces
  • Stephen Boppart - Professor and Director, Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Helen Branswell - Senior Writer, Global Health, STAT
  • Joshua Brody - Director, Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Ethan Brown - Co-Founder and CEO, Beyond Meat
  • Kelly Brownell - Dean and Robert L. Flowers Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
  • Dan Buettner - National Geographic Writer, Renowned Explorer and Author, "Blue Zones"
  • Steven Burakoff - Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute; Lilian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Sylvia Mathews Burwell - Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
  • Ross Cagan - Professor, Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Director, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Robert Califf - Deputy Commissioner, Medical Products and Tobacco, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Irin Carmon - MSNBC National Reporter; Co-author, "NOTORIOUS RBG"; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice
  • Robert Carter III - Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • Blair Casey - Associate Director, The Gleason Initiative Foundation
  • Geoffrey Chaiken - Co-Founder and CEO, Blink Health
  • Bruce Chernof - President and CEO, The SCAN Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
  • Peggy Clark - Managing Director, Aspen Global Health and Development
  • Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
  • Elizabeth Cohen - CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
  • Ann Cooper - Children and Family Advocate; Best Selling Author; Celebrated Chef
  • Toby Cosgrove - CEO and President at Cleveland Clinic
  • Kimi Culp - Filmmaker; Producer, Gleason
  • Francis Cuss - Chief Scientific Officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb (Festival Underwriter)
  • Charles Czeisler - Chief, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Festival Underwriter); Baldino Professor and Director, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Theresa Dankovich - Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Folia Water
  • Thomas Daschle - Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper; Former US Senator (D-SD)
  • Ken Davis - One of the country's most sought after inspirational and motivational speakers
  • Zoé de Las Cases - Designer; Stylist; Illustrator; Author, Color Your Way To Calm series
  • Tom DeRosa - Chief Executive Officer, Welltower (Festival Underwriter)
  • Karen DeSalvo - National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Acting Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Sue Desmond-Hellmann - CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Leah Devlin - Professor of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina
  • Matthew Dillon - Director of Agricultural Policy and Programs, Clif Bar & Company; Director, Seed Matters, Clif Bar Family Foundation
  • Katie Drasser - Deputy Director, Aspen Global Health and Development and Director, Aspen in the Bay Area, The Aspen Institute
  • Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
  • Jonathan Eisen - Full Professor at the University of California, Davis.
  • Mona Eltahawy - Journalist; Egyptian Peace Activist
  • Ezekiel Emanuel - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
  • Scott Faber - Vice President of Government Affairs, Environmental Working Group
  • Anthony Fauci - Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a native of Brooklyn, New York, received his M.D. degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1966.
  • Carlos Ferreira - Geneticist Specialist, Children's National Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Daniel Fletcher - Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering and Biophysics and Chair, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • Sander Florman - Director, Recanti/Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Mei Fong - Director, Asia Global Programs, and Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California Annenberg School
  • Jerry Franck - Filmmaker; Producer, Chau, Beyond the Lines
  • Amy Friedman - Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, LiveOnNY
  • Matthew Galsky - Director of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
  • William Gerson - Peidatrician; Managing Partner, Pediatric Medicine, South Burlinton, VT
  • Lisa Gill - Deputy Content Editor, Best Buy Drugs, Consumer Reports (Festival Underwriter)
  • Farah Ramzan Golant - CEO, Girl Effect
  • Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
  • Louise Greenspan - Early Puberty Detective
  • Renzo Guinto - Director and Co-Founder, #Reimagine Global Health
  • Kevin Hall - Expert on the Power of Words; Living with Purpose
  • James Hamblin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
  • Margaret A. Hamburg - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
  • Mona Hanna-Attisha - Director of Hurley’s Pediatric Residency Program, named leader of Pediatric Public Health Initiative
  • Jane Henney - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
  • Sean Hofherr - Director, Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism and Molecular Diagnostics, Children's National Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Walter Isaacson - Best-selling Author, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution" (2014) and "Steve Jobs" (2011), Acclaimed Historian and Journalist; President and CEO of the Aspen Institute
  • Anthony James - Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine School of Medicine; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, UCI School for Biological Sciences
  • Nicolas Jammet - Co-Founder and Co-CEO, sweetgreen
  • Rasha Jarhum - Founder, Yemeni Youth for Humanitarian Relief; Founder, Aden Initiative
  • Michael Jenkins - Founder, Forest Trends
  • Caitlyn Jenner - Television Personality, Olympic Gold Medalist & Iconic Transgender Woman
  • Paula Johnson - Executive Director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
  • Clay Johnston - Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
  • Jackie Judd - Jackie Judd is Vice President and Senior Advisor for Communications at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She joined the Foundation in 2003 as a Senior Visiting Fellow.
  • Musimbi Kanyoro - President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
  • Jason Karlawish - Professor, Medicine, Medical Ethics & Health Policy and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania; Author
  • Sam Kass - Senior Food Analyst, NBC News; Former Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy
  • Inge Kauer - Executive Director, Access to Nutrition Foundation
  • Joanne Kenen - Executive Editor, Health Care, Politico
  • Stephen Kennedy - Co-Principal Investigator and Coordinator, Ebola Virus Vaccine Trial
  • David Kessler - Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco; Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration; Author, Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
  • Olga Khazan - Staff Writer at The Atlantic
  • Folake Kio-Olayinka - Senior Technical Immunization Officer, John Snow Inc. Immunization Center
  • Harold Koplewicz - Leading Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.
  • Marc Koska - Marc Koska wants to improve health care in the developing world by re-designing dangerous medical tools -- and offering education to practitioners in under-funded clinics.
  • Robin Koval - CEO of Legacy, Bestselling Author, and Former CEO of Publicis Kaplan Thaler
  • Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
  • Ellen Kunes - Director of Health and Food Content, Consumer Reports (Festival Underwriter)
  • Dawn Laguens - Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund
  • Eric Lander - President and Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Jonathan LaPook - Chief Medical Correspondent, "CBS Evening News"
  • Risa Lavizzo-Mourey - Healthcare Expert and President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Vivian Lee - CEO, University of Utah Health Care; Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean, School of Medicine, University of Utah
  • Amir Levine - Principle Investigator, Columbia University
  • Madeline Levine - Educator & Author of The Price of Privilege
  • John Lichtenberger - Assistant Professor of Radiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Service Chief, 3D Medical Applications Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  • Catherine Limperopoulos - Director, Advanced Pediatric Brain Imaging Lab, Children's National Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Edward Mabaya - Associate Director, Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development
  • Paulo Machado - Chef; Founder, Instituto Paulo Machado
  • Vivian Maduekeh - Founder and Managing Principal, Food Health Systems Advisory Africa
  • Jo Marchant - Journalist; Author, Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
  • Courtney Marsh - Filmmaker; Director, Chau, Beyond the Lines
  • Johnny Matheny - Pioneer, Advanced Arm Prosthetics
  • Mark McClellan - Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (2004-2006) and Commissioner, FDA (2002-2004)
  • Erin McDonough - Senior Vice President and Chief Communication Officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Festival Underwriter)
  • Michael McLoughlin - Chief Engineer, Research and Exploratory Development, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
  • Julie McPherson - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton (Festival Underwriter)
  • BJ Miller - Palliative Caregiver
  • Christina Miller - Emergency Physician; Certified Health Coach and Nutrition Education Trainer, The Aspen Club
  • Patti Miller - Director, Too Small to Fail, The Clinton Foundation
  • Vivienne Ming - One of 10 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc. Magazine, Theoretical Neuroscientist, Technologist and Entrepreneur. Co-founder and Managing Partner of Socos
  • Monir Moniruzzaman - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University
  • Tara Montgomery - Senior Director, Health Impact, Consumer Reports (Festival Underwriter)
  • Courtney Moran - Clinical Prosthetist, Research and Exploratory Development, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
  • Dariush Mozaffarian - Dean, Friedman School of Nutrition Policy, Tufts University
  • Vivek Murthy - 19th Surgeon General of the United States
  • Thumbi Mwangi - Clinical Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University
  • Michael Myers - Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
  • Samuel Myers - Senior Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Planetary Health Alliance
  • Betsy Nabel - President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Festival Underwriter); Chief Health and Medical Advisor, National Football League
  • Kurt Newman - President and CEO, Children's National Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Duy Nguyen - Associate Producer, Translator, Camera, Chau, Beyond the Lines
  • Siobhan O'Connor - Journalist; Health Director, TIME and Time.com
  • Bennet Omalu - First to Discover & Diagnose Chronic Brain Damage in NFL Athletes; Subject of Upcoming Film Concussion
  • John Osborne - Co-Founder and National Director, Project Welcome Home Troops
  • Steven Osofsky - Executive Director, Wildlife Health and Health Policy, Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Perri Peltz - Director, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.; Host, "Dr. Radio Reports," Sirius XM
  • Chellie Pingree - US Representative (D-ME)
  • Jorge Plutzky - Director, Preventive Cardiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Festival Underwriter)
  • Andrew Quinn - Director of Training and Development, HubSpot.
  • Sathya Raghu - Co-Founder, Cosmos Green; Co-Founder, Kheyti
  • Urvashi Rangan - Director, Consumer Safety and Sustainability, Consumer Reports (Festival Underwriter)
  • Doug Rauch - Former President of Trader Joe’s
  • Dorene Rentz - Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
  • Eric Reynolds - Founder and CEO, Inyenyeri
  • Bob Roth - Educator, author, and meditation teacher
  • Julie Rovner - Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow in Health Reporting, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
  • Justin Sanchez - Director, Biological Technologies Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Department of Defense
  • Margot Sanger-Katz - Domestic Correspondent, Upshot, The New York Times
  • Reshma Saujani - Founder, Girls Who Code and Candidate, New York City Public Advocate
  • Eric Schadt - Director, Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Mount Sinai Medical School.
  • Pedro Miguel Schiaffino - Owner/Chef, Amaz, and Schiaffino Gastronomica Catering
  • Anne Schuchat - Principal Deputy Director, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Kathleen Sebelius - Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Kamilla Seidler - Executive Chef, Gustu Gastronomia
  • Donna Shalala - President, University of Miami and Former Secretary, Health and Human Services
  • Lindiwe Majele Sibanda - CEO and Head of Mission, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
  • Susan Silbermann - President and General Manager, Pfizer Vaccines, Pfizer (Festival Underwriter)
  • Prabhjot Singh - International & Public Affairs Scholar; Professor at Columbia University
  • Riya Singh - Researcher, Centre for Girls Education (Nigeria)
  • Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
  • Margaret Low Smith - President, AtlanticLIVE
  • Shobhita Soor - Insect Protein Marketer
  • Sofia Caballero Stafford - Teen Advisor Girl Up
  • Kevin Starr - Director, Mulago Foundation
  • Vic Strecher - Founder & Chief Visionary Officer, Healthmedia Inc.
  • Marshall Summar - Chief, Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Margaret O’Malley Chair of Molecular Genetics, Children's National Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • Michael Taylor - Former Deputy Commissioner, Foods and Veterinary Medicine, US Food and Drug Administration; Senior Fellow, Freedman Consulting, LLC
  • Wendy Taylor - Director, Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact, USAID
  • Bob Tedeschi - Senior Writer, STAT
  • Tommy Thompson - Secretary of Health and Human Services (2001-2005)
  • Damon Tweedy - Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center; Physician, Durham VA Medical Center; Author, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
  • Michel Varisco - Artist; Subject, Gleason
  • J. Craig Venter - J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., is one of leading scientists of the 21st century for his visionary contributions in genomic research.
  • Kevin Vigilante - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Tom Vilsack - US Secretary of Agriculture
  • Andrew von Eschenbach - Leading Public Health Executive & Physician.
  • Tom Voss - National Veteran Liaison, Project Welcome Home Troops
  • Sitawa Wafula - Founder and Executive Director, My Mind, My Funk
  • Melissa Walker - Invisible Wounds Healer
  • Harriet Washington - Award-winning Medical Writer & Editor
  • Chrystelle Wedi - Co-founder, Ono Mtoto Wako
  • Alan Weil - Editor in Chief, Health Affairs
  • Karen Weintraub - Freelance Health and Science Journalist
  • Patricia Will - Co-Founder and President, Belmont Village Senior Living
  • Kiah Williams - Co-founder and Director at SIRUM
  • Elijah Wolfson - Senior Editor, Newsweek
  • Jocelyn Wyatt - Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
  • Frank Young - Executive Vice President, Regulatory and Medical, Braeburn Pharmaceuticals; Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
  • Andrew Zolli - Executive Director, PopTech; Author, "Resilience: The Science of Why Things Bounce Back"
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