Bio

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.