Dr. Joel  Selanikio, MD

Dr. Joel Selanikio, MD

Co-Founder and CEO of Magpi & Physician at Georgetown University

Dr. Joel Selanikio, MD

Co-Founder and CEO of Magpi & Physician at Georgetown University

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Biography

“Dr. Selanikio delivered a mind-blowing message to our audience, illustrating with a unique view how innovation and technology is disrupting the healthcare industry and rattling legacy systems of care. He inspired our audience to think differently about their current systems and practices, and power and potential of consumerism on the future of the healthcare delivery system.”

-Director, Healthcare Finance Policy, Physician and Clinical Practice, Healthcare Financial Management Association

Dr. Joel Selanikio has spent his career at the intersection of medicine, technology, and disruption — and he argues that healthcare's future looks nothing like its past.

A practicing physician, former CDC epidemiologist, and technology entrepreneur, Dr. Selanikio speaks to healthcare boards and executive leadership on AI, consumer health disruption, and the forces quietly dismantling traditional models of care delivery. He most recently keynoted The Governance Institute's national conference for healthcare board members and executives.

His career spans clinical medicine, global health, and crisis response. He created Magpi, the first cloud-based data collection platform for global health, winning both the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare and the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation. As a CDC epidemiologist and emergency responder, he served as lead physician at the IMC Ebola Treatment Center in Sierra Leone, Chief of Operations for the HHS Emergency Command Center after 9/11, and consultant epidemiologist to FEMA and DC Health during COVID-19.

He has spoken at TED, Davos, MIT, Stanford, Google, the American Hospital Association, and the Royal Society of Medicine, and has been profiled by The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Wired, Forbes, the BBC, NPR, and the Washington Post.

Dr. Selanikio lives in Washington, DC with his family. He works in partnership with APB Speakers for speaking engagements worldwide.

Speaker Videos

Keynote Speaker Reel: The Future of Health and Healthcare

TED: The Surprising Seeds of a Big-Data Revolution in Healthcare

The Future of Health and Healthcare

Information Technology Trends and Their Effect on Health and Healthcare

Speech Topics

Healthcare Gets Better and Smaller

How AI, consumer technology, and new business models are shrinking the boundaries of the traditional health system.

Doctor You: From Exam Room to Living Room

How Knowledge, Diagnosis, Treatment, Monitoring, and Interpretation are moving from the clinic to the patient.

Platform Power: Why Apple, Google, and OpenAI Matter to Healthcare

Why companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and OpenAI may matter more to the future of healthcare than many traditional incumbents.

Liability, Regulation, and the Future of Health AI

How policy, market experimentation, and real-world deployment are rewriting the rules for health AI.

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