Aspen Ideas Festival

Spotlight Health 2015
  • Matthew Bishop
  • Laura Carstensen
  • Steve Clemons
  • Pamela Collins
  • Mick Ebeling
  • Christian Foster
  • Elizabeth Bradley
  • Ashley Judd
  • Hugh Acheson - Celebrity Chef, Restaurateur and "Top Chef" Judge
  • Lauren Augustine - Legislative Associate, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
  • Neal Baer - Harvard-Trained Physician, Television Writer & Producer
  • Jason Beaubien - Jason Beaubien is NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk.
  • Matthew Bishop - US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
  • Elizabeth Bradley - Director, Yale Global Health Initiative; Professor, Yale School of Public Health
  • Steven Brill - Award-winning Journalist and Author
  • Larry Brilliant - Pioneering Physician and Philanthropist; President, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund
  • Nadine Burke Harris - Founder and CEO of Center for Youth Wellness (CYW)
  • Barbara Pierce Bush - Humanitarian and Co-founder and President, Global Health Corps
  • Irin Carmon - Journalist & Commentator
  • Laura Carstensen - Stanford University, Professor of Psychology
  • John Cary - Co-Founder and Partner, FRESH Speakers; Co-Host, TEDCity2.0; Advisor, Aspen Global Health and Development, The Aspen Institute
  • Corey Casper - Head of Global Oncology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Professor of Medicine, University of Washington
  • Albert Cho - Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Xylem Inc.
  • Deepak Chopra - Best-Selling Author & One of the World's Top Motivational Seminar Leaders
  • Peggy Clark - Managing Director, Aspen Global Health and Development
  • Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
  • Dr. Francis Collins - Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Pamela Collins - Associate Director, Special Populations, National Institute of Mental Health; Director, Special Populations, Rural Mental Health Research, and Global Mental Health Offices, NIMH
  • Thomas Daschle - Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper; Former US Senator (D-SD)
  • Wyatt Decker - Vice President, Mayo Clinic; CEO, Mayo Clinic, Arizona
  • Diana DeGette - Diana Degette is serving her sixth term in Congress as the Representative for the First District of Colorado
  • Nancy-Ann DeParle - Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Leading Expert on Healthcare and Regulatory Issues
  • Ronald DePinho - President, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
  • Karen DeSalvo - National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Acting Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Dan Diaz - Activist for Expanding End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Adults
  • Abigail Disney - Producer Known for "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" & "Women War Peace;" Peace Activist and Founder of Peace is Loud
  • Krista Donaldson - Chief Executive Officer D-Rev: Design Revolution
  • Dr. Peter Drobac - Director of Inshuti Mu Buzima, Partners In Healths sister organization in Rwanda
  • Mick Ebeling - Founder of the Not Impossible Foundation; Creator of Intel's Project Daniel
  • Tom Farrey - Correspondent; Director, ESPN; Director, Sports and Society, The Aspen Institute
  • Iva Fattorini - Chair, Global Arts and Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
  • Anthony S. Fauci - Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a native of Brooklyn, New York, received his M.D. degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1966.
  • Liz Feld - President, Autism Speaks (Festival Underwriter)
  • Rushika Fernandopulle - Co-Founder and CEO, Iora Health
  • Laurel Firestone - Co-Founder and Co-Director, Community Water Center
  • Christian Foster - Senior Vice President, Civil Commercial Group, Booz Allen Hamilton (Festival Underwriter)
  • William Frist - Heart Transplant Surgeon and Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
  • Jane Gauntlett - Theater Artist; Founder, Sublime and Ridiculous
  • Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
  • David Glazer - Director of Engineering, Friend Connect, Google
  • Dan Glickman - Executive Director, Congressional Program, The Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Secretary, US Department of Agriculture
  • Barak Goodman - Director, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
  • Garth Graham - President, Aetna Foundation
  • James Hamblin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
  • Margaret A. Hamburg - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
  • Lucy Hurst - Senior Editor and Analyst, Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist Group
  • Victor W. Hwang - Entrepreneur; Venture Capitalist; CEO, T2 Venture Creation; Co-author of "The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley"
  • Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
  • Roger Jackson -
  • Dr. Paula Johnson - Executive Director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
  • Ashley Judd - Actress, Activist, and Humanitarian
  • Storn Kabuluzi -Director of Preventive Health Services, Ministry of Health, Malawi
  • Ron Klain - President, Case Holdings; General Counsel, Revolution, LLC; Former Ebola Response Coordinator, Executive Office of the President
  • Howard Koh - Professor and Associate Dean at Harvard University School of Public Health
  • Christopher Korsh - Senior Principal, Healthcare, HOK
  • Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
  • David Kuria - Director, Ecotact Group
  • Rachel Kyte - Vice President, International Finance Corporation
  • Jonathan LaPook - Chief Medical Correspondent, "CBS Evening News"
  • Ramanan Laxminarayan - Drug-Resistance Economist
  • Stanley Litow - Vice President, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM; President, IBM International Foundation
  • Josh Lozman - Deputy Director, Program Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
  • Poonacha Machaiah - Co-Founder, JIYO
  • Lilly Marks - Vice President, Health Affairs, University of Colorado (Festival Underwriter)
  • Courtney E. Martin - Author; Speaker; Co-Founder, Solutions Journalism Network
  • Olivia Mastry - Founding Partner, The Collective Action Lab
  • David Mathews - President and CEO, Kettering Foundation; Former Secretary, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • Lucia McBath - National Spokeswoman and Faith and Outreach Community Organizer, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
  • Gary Mendell - Founder and CEO, Shatterproof
  • BJ Miller - Palliative caregiver.
  • Neeraj Mistry - Managing Director Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women United Nations
  • Jamison Monroe - Addiction & Recovery Expert; Founder of Newport Academy; Addiction & Behavior Correspondent For CNN
  • Dariush Mozaffarian - Dean, Friedman School of Nutrition Policy, Tufts University
  • Gina Murdock - Founder and Director, Aspen Yoga Society
  • Michael Murphy - CEO and Co-Founder at MASS Design Group
  • Dr. Vivek Murthy - 19th Surgeon General of the United States
  • Michael Myers - Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
  • Marie Nelson - Vice President, News and Public Affairs, PBS (Festival Underwriter)
  • Kurt Newman - President and CEO, Children's National Health System (Festival Underwriter)
  • John H. Noseworthy, M.D. - President and CEO Mayo Clinic
  • Paul Offit - Director, Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Maurice R. Hillelman Professor of Vaccinology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
  • Peter Orszag - Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
  • Ariel Pablos-Mendez - Assistant Administrator for Global Health at US Agency for International Development
  • David Riggs - Executive Director, Center for Deployment Psychology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Robert Ring - Chief Science Officer, Autism Speaks (Festival Underwriter)
  • Dennis Roop - Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Mark Roth - Cell Biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Julie Rovner - Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow in Health Reporting, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
  • Kirsten Saenz Tobey - Founder and Chief Impact Officer Revolution Foods
  • Isabel V. Sawhill - Senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution
  • Kathleen Sebelius - Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Donna Shalala - President, University of Miami and Former Secretary, Health and Human Services
  • Loren Shook - Co-Founder, President and CEO, Silverado Senior Living
  • Moncef Slaoui - Chairman of Global R&D and Vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Michael Smith - Medical Director and Chief Medical Editor, WebMD
  • Jorg Spieldenner - Head of Public Health Nutrition Department, Nestle Research Center
  • Agapi Stassinopoulos - Author and Inspirational Teacher
  • Josh Sullivan - Computer Scientist and Senior Vice President of Strategic Innovation Group, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Louis W. Sullivan - Chairman of the Board, National Health Museum; Former Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services
  • Wendy Taylor - Director, Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact, USAID
  • Halle Tecco - Social Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
  • Tommy Thompson - Secretary of Health and Human Services (2001-2005)
  • Eric J. Topol, M.D. - Gary and Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine; Cardiologist; Geneticist
  • Kevin Tracey - President and CEO, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
  • Michael Tutty - Michael Tutty
  • Chris Underhill - Founder Director of BasicNeeds
  • Fred Upton - Member, US House of Representatives (R-MI)
  • Abraham Verghese - NYT Bestselling Author, "Cutting for Stone"; Senior Associate Chair, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Kevin Vigilante - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Nora D. Volkow - Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
  • Jeffrey Walker - Chairman at MDG Health Alliance - Community Health Workers
  • Henry Waxman - Former Democratic Congressman representing California's 33rd District
  • H. Gilbert Welch - Professor of Medicine and Public Policy, Dartmouth College; General Internist, White River Junction VA Medical Center
  • Leana Wen - Physician, Author & Advocate for Patient Empowerment
  • Gary White - Executive Director & Co-Founder of Water.org with Matt Damon
  • Judy Woodruff - Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour
  • Jocelyn Wyatt - Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
  • Seema Yasmin - Staff Writer, Dallas Morning News; Public Health Professor, University of Texas School of Law
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