Physician Speaking by KevinMD

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA, who was raised by a single teenage mother in NYC, transformed his life through determination and innovation. With over two decades of experience as a physician, entrepreneur, and CEO of 8 free-standing ERs, a medical billing and physician staffing company, he has become a driving force for change.

He currently serves as a strategic advisor for ChatGPT and health care. In addition to his medical accomplishments, Harvey has developed more than 30 iPhone apps. He is bilingual and has made over 100 live TV appearances. Harvey plays a crucial role in orchestrating AI adoption plans, bridging the gap between technology and health care, and fostering collaboration with physicians.

A graduate of UTMB and Texas A&M, currently residing in Dallas, Texas, he is not only an accomplished medical professional but also an author and public speaker. His words inspire action toward realizing AI's potential in health care, ultimately contributing to the creation of a healthier and more intelligent world.

Harvey speaks about the following topics:

• Revolutionizing health care through AI: A collaborative approach

• The future of physician leadership: Navigating the AI landscape

• AI and patient care: Building trust in a technological era

Tammie Chang, MD

Tammie Chang, MD is an author, speaker, and fierce national advocate for cultural change in health care. She is a practicing board-certified pediatric hematology/oncology physician at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, the medical director of provider wellness for MultiCare Health System, the co-founder of Pink Coat, MD, a platform dedicated to helping women physicians to thrive in their lives and careers, and co-founder and program director of ELEVATE, the American Medical Womens Association’s (AMWA) National Leadership Development Program for Women Physician Attendings. 

She is the author of the bestselling Boundaries for Women Physicians, the co-author of the bestselling How to Thrive as a Woman Physician and the creator and host of the LeadHER Podcast for Women Physicians. 

Tammie has received numerous awards, including the 2022 Gold Maverick of the Year and Gold Woman of the Year Stevie American Business Awards, the 2022 Gold Maverick of the Year and Silver Woman of the Year Stevie International Business Awards, and Women We Admire’s Top 50 Women Leaders of Washington for 2022. Her book, Boundaries for Women Physicians, won the 2022 Living Now Evergreen Book Award, recognized for its contribution to positive global change. 

Tammie earned her MD from Brown University, completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Massachusetts, and completed her pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Tammie speaks about the following topics:

• Joining the transition team: Creating gender equity and a bright future for women in medicine

• Becoming a change agent: Leading cultural transformation from where you are

• The power of boundaries for women physicians and leaders

Jennifer Shine Dyer, MD, MPH

Jennifer Shine Dyer MD, MPH is a pediatric endocrinology physician in private practice, social media enthusiast, Stanford artificial pancreas researcher, and app developer/tech entrepreneur in Columbus, Ohio. She has a patient-centered focus looking to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes or other chronic diseases with technology.

She focuses on how technology can solve clinical problems and bring joy back to medicine.

As an entrepreneur, she created the startup EndoGoddess, LLC in 2011 which entered into partnership with a larger local mobile software startup, Duet Health (eProximiti). Together they developed the EndoGoddess app in 2011, and the EndoGoal app in 2012 for patients with diabetes who require insulin therapy and need motivation for glucose and insulin tracking.

Jennifer is currently creating a new diabetes-specific video game for kids with diabetes in collaboration with The Ohio State University College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Jennifer is an experienced keynote speaker and has appeared on the TEDx stage.  Her story focuses on how technology can solve clinical problems and bring joy back to medicine.

Jennifer speaks about the following topics:

• How to solve clinical problems using mobile technology

• Mobile technology development and entrepreneurship

• Changing health behaviors with mobile technology

• The future of diabetes technology

• Using gamification to change health behaviors

Will Flanary, MD

Will Flanary, MD is an ophthalmologist and part-time comedian who moonlights in his free time as "Dr. Glaucomflecken," a social media personality who creates medical-themed comedy shorts across social media. He got his start in comedy as an 18-year-old performing stand-up in his hometown of Houston, TX. He later decided to embark on the much easier route of becoming a doctor.

He was diagnosed with testicular cancer in his third year of med school. His experience as a patient and medical student kicked off his interest in medical comedy, using humor as a coping mechanism. After a successful surgery and four years of med school, Will attended an ophthalmology residency program. Unfortunately, cancer found him again during residency, and he again turned to comedy - this time, starting an account on Twitter. He called himself "Dr. Glaucomflecken" because it is clearly the funniest word in the field of ophthalmology.

When the pandemic hit, his jokes and videos were a welcome reprieve from the horrors of working in health care. He expanded his comedy repertoire to short skits incorporating a wide range of characters who worked at a fictional hospital called "Glaucomflecken General." Dr. Glaucomflecken has now amassed over 3 million fans, collaborated with the U.S. Surgeon General, gave the Yale Medical School commencement address in 2022, and has given dozens of talks worldwide.

Will speaks about the following topics:

• Finding the humor in medicine

• Lessons learned from cancer and cardiac arrest-surviving ophthalmologist

• Social media for the health care professional

David Geier, MD

David Geier, MD is a double-board certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist in Charleston, South Carolina. After serving as director of sports medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina and as Medical Director of sports medicine at a private hospital, he recently transitioned to a concierge orthopedics practice.

In his practice and online efforts, he aims to help athletes and active people feel and perform their best, regardless of age or injuries. He is the author of the book, That's Gotta Hurt: The Injuries That Changed Sports Forever.

David is an experienced speaker and uses stories of elite athletes overcoming devastating injuries to show physicians and other health care professionals how they can survive and thrive in today's medical climate.

He gave a TEDx talk titled, Our Future You[th]: How Exercising Restraint Could Save America’s Young Athletes, in which he made a passionate plea to parents, coaches, leagues, health care professionals, and athletes that we need to take action to overcome a growing epidemic of injuries among our kids.

David speaks about the following topics:

• Less stress, more success: Overcoming and preventing physician burnout

• The leader in you: What physicians can learn from the world’s best athletes and coaches

• Grow your practice, your patients, and your presence: 3 critical tools for online (and offline) communication

Jordan Grumet, MD

Jordan Grumet, MD is an internal medicine physician and a hospice medical director.  He has worked in academic as well as private practices, served as medical director of several nursing homes, and created palliative care programs for skilled nursing facilities.  

He is a writer and storyteller who has been published in Medical Economics, the Pharos, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. His book, I Am Your Doctor And This Is My Humble Opinion, was published in 2015, and followed by Five Moments: Short Works of Fiction in 2017.

Jordan shares his stories at conferences nationwide, highlighted by an acclaimed performance at the dotMD conference in Dublin, Ireland.

Jordan speaks about the following topics:

• Taking stock: A hospice doctor's advice on financial independence, building wealth, and living a regret-free life

• Bridging the intimacy gap between physician and patient

• Caring 2.0: Social media and the rise of the empathic physician

• Hospice and the way of the master clinician

• Doctor and society: An hour of storytelling

Mark McLaughlin, MD

Mark McLaughlin, MD is a practicing board-certified neurosurgeon, a national media commentator, author of the book Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon’s Quest to Outthink Fear, and an acclaimed keynote speaker.

He is the founder of Princeton Brain and Spine Care where he practices surgery focusing on trigeminal neuralgia and cervical spine surgery, and is also a thought leader in performance enhancement and physician-hospital relations.

His interests extend beyond medicine and speaking engagements. Mark coaches youth wrestling and co-founded and funded Trenton Youth Wrestling, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing inner-city boys and girls with skills gained through wrestling and working with mentors.

Mark also has a special interest in educating and assisting in training United States Military Academy cadets. In his father’s honor, he endowed the Annual Albert C. Wedemeyer Strategic Leadership lecture series designed in collaboration with the Modern War Institute to foster the interests of America’s future military leadership.

He served as medical director for Princeton Brain and Spine from 2005 to 2015 before focusing on teaching, writing, and speaking. He is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He resides in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mark speaks about the following topics:

• Burnout lessons learned from a twenty-year veteran

• The gift of our profession, the platform of life: Cognitive dominance and the modern physician

• Managing the technological revolution with hope, faith, and love

• The operating room of the future: Trigeminal neuralgia with a Russian twist

Nisha Mehta, MD

Nisha Mehta, MD is a radiologist, keynote speaker, physician community builder, and physician advocate.

Her missions include addressing the physician burnout epidemic through physician empowerment and cultural change in medicine and increasing business and financial literacy amongst physicians to promote career longevity and career satisfaction.

She has built online communities of over 125,000 verified physician members where these topics are routinely discussed. Her work has been featured in numerous international media outlets, including Forbes, CNN, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, and PBS NewsHour. She was named a 2020 Top Voice in Healthcare by LinkedIn and has led grassroots physician efforts to fight for legislation on behalf of health care workers and patients.

She lives and works in Charlotte, NC with her husband, who is a plastic surgeon, and her two sons.

Nisha speaks about the following topics:

• Physician burnout: Stories, implications, and systemic solutions

• The changing demographics of the physician workforce, and its impact on health care in America

• Physician entrepreneurship: Challenges and triumphs

• Empowering physicians: How physician communities can improve health for both physicians and patients

• Advocating for national-level change in an increasingly complex health care landscape

Lipi Roy, MD, MPH

Lipi Roy, MD, MPH is an internal medicine and addiction medicine physician, keynote speaker, writer, and sought-after media medical commentator who has appeared on MSNBC, NBC News, CNN, and many other news outlets.

Featured in Top Doctor Magazine, Lipi currently serves as medical director of COVID isolation and quarantine sites for Housing Works in New York City. She also treats patients at a harm reduction clinic in the Bronx and serves as a clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone Health.

As the former chief of addiction medicine for Rikers Island, Lipi oversaw substance use treatment and recovery services at the nation’s second-largest jail complex. Her work spans clinical medicine, media, academia, homeless health, social and criminal justice, and public speaking.

Lipi has been invited to speak throughout the U.S. and internationally about a wide range of topics including COVID-19, substance use disorders (drug addiction), mental health, pain, trauma, homeless health, incarceration, social and criminal justice, nutrition, and mindfulness. Drawing from her diverse experiences, Lipi’s compelling storytelling skills and charisma resonate with a wide range of audiences.

Lipi completed her medical and master’s in public health degrees at Tulane University, followed by residency training in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center. She is board-certified in addiction medicine. A Forbes contributor, she has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe, and her articles have been published in STAT, Psychology Today, CNN.Com, and The Huffington Post.

Lipi speaks about the following topics:

• COVID-19 health topics including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, vaccination

• Addiction and related topics including pain, trauma, mental illness, harm reduction

• Homeless health

• Incarceration and criminal justice reform as health issues

• Healthy living through nutrition and mindful practice

Dawn Sears, MD

Dawn Sears, MD is a practicing gastroenterologist and hepatologist who is passionate about helping her colleagues. Specifically, she is driven to stop the hemorrhaging of women physicians from health care. She designed, implemented, and is now reproducing the Women Leaders in Medicine program, which moved the needles of retention, burnout, and engagement in positive directions.

She is a passionate educator of patients, learners, teams, and caregivers.  She has unique experiences of leading many teams of 90 percent men, raising a child requiring frequent hospital stays, being an entrepreneur, mentoring hundreds of physicians, being a certified executive coach, researcher, and working in both large multispecialty and government health systems.     

Her love languages are efficiency, collaboration, and transformation.  She has received national recognition from the American Medical Association, American Medical Women’s Association, and the Texas A&M College of Medicine for her work with Women Leaders in Medicine.   

You can find her on Twitter at @GutGirlMD or potentially in a high school football locker room discussing vaping or legacy to a group of 100 tough young men.  

Her keynote style of edutainment results in high-level engagement and deeper thinking with many action items for those in attendance.          

Dawn speaks about the following topics:

• #HeForShe: Gaining the recruitment edge

• How to stop your female partner from quitting medicine

• Reframing the 10 thoughts that lead to burnout

• Growing a new liver inside you is easier than you think                                                                                                   

C. Nicole Swiner, MD

C. Nicole Swiner, MD, known as “DocSwiner,” is a board-certified family physician, best-selling author, speaker, wife, and mom of 2 girls. She was voted as one of the ten best doctors in North Carolina and lives in Durham, NC.

She is known as the “Superwoman Complex” expert and has written two best-selling books on the topic. She loves taking care of the family as a whole: from the cradle to the grave and helping those suffering from stress, work-life imbalance, and imposter syndrome follow their own #nosuperwo(man) lifestyle. Her interests include minority health, mental health, women’s health, wellness, and entrepreneurship.

Nicole attended Duke University, went to medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina, and continues teaching as an adjunct professor in family medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She speaks locally and nationally in media and on the news, teaches others to self-publish, and hosts and curates wellness and publishing workshops and retreats.

DocSwiner speaks about the following topics:

• Wellness and its place in Western medicine practice

• The rise and use of AI in medicine and research

• Obesity and weight loss medications and trends

• Diversity and inclusion in medicine and research

• Working smarter and not harder in primary care

• The Superwo(man) Complex and treating physician burnout

• Tips on transitioning into and running a successful private practice

• Physician entrepreneurship and becoming a best-selling author

Hassan A. Tetteh, MD, MBA

Hassan A. Tetteh, MD, MBA is a U.S. Navy captain, associate professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and adjunct faculty at Howard University College of Medicine. He was selected as a 2019 Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine. Currently, he is a thoracic surgeon for MedStar Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He leads a Specialized Thoracic Adapted Recovery (STAR) Team in Washington, DC, and his research in thoracic transplantation aims to expand heart and lung recovery and save lives.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Hassan received his MD from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, his MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, and an MS in National Security Strategy with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from the National War College. He completed his thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Minnesota and advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

An acclaimed keynote speaker, Hassan is the founder and principal of Tetteh Consulting Group, creator of The Art of Human Care book series, and best-selling author of several books, including Gifts of the Heart, Star Patrol, and The Art of Human Care. He was named a TEDMED Front Line Scholar and is a TEDx speaker. He's an alumnus of the Harvard Medical School Writers' Workshop and Yale Writers' Conference and lives near Washington, DC, with his wife, son, and daughter.

Hassan speaks about the following topics:

• AI in precision medicine and personalized health care

• AI's role in enhancing medical imaging and diagnostics

• Ethical considerations and data privacy in AI-driven health care

• The Art of Human Care: Audiences will gain a passion to make health care great, the antidote for burnout in health care, and a new perspective on what it means to heal

• The Science of Human Care: An exclusive, practical methodology for delivering “human care,” a transformative model of health care that offers hope and healing for today’s struggling system

Cindy Tsai, MD

Cindy Tsai, MD is an award-winning internal medicine physician, TEDx/keynote speaker, bestselling author, and wellness/life coach committed to helping high-achievers transform their stress into strength to lead a healthy and purposeful life with ease. 

As a leader, physician, and patient herself, she saw and experienced the impact of chronic stress on the body and was compelled to do more than prescribe medications as a bandaid. Having completed training at top institutions such as Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth, she believes that the quick fix is not a fix for our health and wellness and that we can't take a one-size-fits-all approach. Cindy discussed her own healing journey in her TEDx talk on "Body Intelligence: An Integrative Approach to Health & Wellness" and has explored and trained in a wide range of therapies, from traditional to complementary modalities focused on taking an integrative approach to wellness. 

As the author of the bestselling self-help book based on mindfulness, So Much Better: Life-Changing Strategies to Become an Inspiring Success Story, she introduces a radical path to well-being, incorporating a diverse range of mind-body-spirit techniques to leading a successful life with ease. Her work has been nationally recognized, featured, and published in various media focused on wellness and healthy living. Cindy loves sharing her expertise and passion through teaching, writing, and coaching others and believes that only when you're well can you do your most important work in life, which is to share your gifts and make the world a better place. 

Cindy speaks about the following topics: 

• Taking an integrative approach to wellness and understanding integrative medicine

• Healing the healer: Stress management and tools for workplace wellness and success

• Self-care and self-compassion as leaders

Shoshana Ungerleider, MD

Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, hosts the TED Health Podcast, is the founder of endwellproject.org, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the end-of-life experience, and a practicing internal medicine physician at Crossover Health in San Francisco. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she found her passion for science and public health communication, appearing regularly as a medical voice on CNN, MSNBC, and CBS News. Her writing has been featured in TIME, Scientific American, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vox, and STAT. Shoshana believes film is a powerful way to encourage public dialogue around the end of life and executive produced the Netflix Academy Award-short documentary, End Game, and funded Netflix’s Extremis. Her most recent film project, Robin's Wish, is a biographical documentary about the final years of actor and comedian Robin Williams.

Shoshana has been a featured keynoter at Google, SXSW, HLTH, Exponential Medicine, The Milken Institute, The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), The Schwartz Center’s Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference, Columbia University, Stanford University School of Medicine and many others.

Shoshana speaks about the following topics:

• Psychedelics as medicine: The promise of a new frontier

• The future is female: Looking ahead at the role of women in health care

• Aging in America: What the “silver tsunami” means for health care in the United States

• Ending well: Redesigning the end of life experience for patients and families

• Re-imagining health care for the future: How can we apply design thinking to improve the health care experience

• A Rx for burnout: How can we bring back joy and meaning to health care?