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Mind-blowing, Provocative, Health Keynote Speakers (Who Happen To Be Women)

Recently we ran into an age-old problem: our shortlist for keynote speakers skewed male. Embarrassing. Right?  

So what did we do? We asked 10 smart people: who are the mind-blowing, provocative keynote speakers on the subjects of health that happen to be women? The parameters were clear: they should be known entities, passionate, inspiring, and speak fluently on a subject that is relevant to the health space. This is what they came up with:

  1. Alexandra Drane, Founder/President, Eliza,
    2. LinkedIn, Company Profile
  2. Amelia Burke, Senior Director of Digital Media, WESTAT, LinkedIn
  3. Ann Aikin, Director of Digital Communication and New Media, FDA Center for Tobacco Products, LinkedIn
  4. Anne Beal, Chief Operating Officer, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), PCORI profile
  5. Anne Wojcicki, Co-Founder, 23 and Me, LinkedIn
  6. Beth Comstock, Senior Vice President, GE, LinkedIn
  7. Carol McCall, Chief Innovation Officer, GNS Health, LinkedIn
  8. Cat Laine, Deputy Director, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG), AIDG bio (scroll down), Twitter
  9. Catherine Mohr, Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical, LinkedIn
  10. Cathy Kerzner,  Moffitt Cancer Center profile
  11. Charity Tillemann Dick, Opera Singer with double lung replacement, LinkedIn
  12. Cheryl Pegus, Chief Medical Officer, Walgreens, LinkedIn
  13. Deb Levine, Founder/Executive Director, Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS), Inc., LinkedIn, Twitter
  14. Deborah Dunsire, CEO/President, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Forbes profile
  15. Deborah Estrin, Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), UCLA, CENS profile
  16. Diane Gage Lofgren, Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy, Communications & Public Relations, Kaiser Permanente, LinkedIn, Twitter
  17. Carolyn Buck Luce, Partner/Global Life Sciences Sector Leader, Ernest and Young LLP, LinkedIn
  18. Fran Melmed, Founder, context communication consulting, LinkedIn, Twitter
  19. Freda Lewis-Hall, Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer, LinkedIn
  20. Ginger Graham, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, HBS Faculty profile
  21. Haiden Huskamp, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, HMS faculty profile
  22. Jane McGonigal, Director of Games Research & Development, Institute for the Future, Personal webpage profile
  23. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, HealthPopuli
  24. Jen McCabe, Founder/CEO, Contagion Health/Habit Labs, LinkedIn
  25. Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist, Personal webpage profile
  26. Lynn O'Connor Vos, CEO/President, Grey Healthcare, BusinessWeek profile
  27. Nancy Snyderman, Medical Journalist,  National Library of Medicine profile
  28. Quyen Nguyen, Inventor & Surgeon, UC San Diego, UCSD Staff Profile
  29. Radha Agarwal, Founder/CEO, SuperSprowtz LLC, LinkedIn
  30. Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, HBS Faculty profile
  31. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, RWJF profile, Twitter
  32. Sheila Nirenberg, Associate Professor & inventor (sight), Cornell University, Cornell Faculty
  33. Rock Health's Women Rocking Health List which includes many more incredible women.

Have other suggestions? Drop us a line on @healthtechfood