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
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
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
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
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)
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
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.
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
