Healthcare Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers on the future of medicine, healthcare AI, patient experience, and workforce wellbeing for health systems, payers, pharma, and medical associations.
Healthcare is being remade on every front at once: AI moving into clinical workflow, longevity science redefining prevention, consumers shopping for care, and a workforce running on empty. The right keynote speaker helps a room of physicians, executives, or plan leaders make sense of it. Rave Speakers' healthcare roster spans the full conversation, from physician-futurist Daniel Kraft and XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis on where medicine is headed, to former Salesforce Chief Medical Officer Dr. Geeta Nayyar on AI clinicians can actually trust, to Allison Massari and John O'Leary, burn survivors whose stories of compassionate care have closed hundreds of medical congresses. Whether your audience is a health system leadership summit, a payer conference, a pharma national meeting, or a medical association's annual congress, we match the speaker to the room, the theme, and the moment.
The Future of Medicine
Physicians and futurists like Daniel Kraft, Peter Diamandis, and Dan Buettner map where care delivery, longevity, and prevention go next.
Daniel Kraft, M.D.
Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist who chaired medicine at Singularity University and founded Exponential Medicine. Gives health system and pharma leaders a clinically grounded map of where genomics, AI, and connected care are actually taking diagnosis, treatment, and prevention over the next decade.
Peter Diamandis
Founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University, NYT bestselling author, and one of the most booked futurists in the world. Shows healthcare leadership how AI, biotech, and longevity science are compressing decades of change into years, and what health systems and payers should do about it now.
Nick Webb
Healthcare futurist, bestselling author of The Healthcare Mandate, and prolific inventor of consumer and medical technology. Connects the future of care delivery to the consumer experience revolution, showing hospital, payer, and association audiences how to win patients who now shop for their care.
Dan Buettner
Blue Zones founder, National Geographic Fellow, and 3x Emmy winner who turned the study of the world's longest-lived communities into a population health movement adopted by cities and health plans. Gives payers and health systems an evidence-based playbook for prevention, longevity, and wellbeing at scale.
AI and Digital Health
Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Zack Kass, and Mick Ebeling on what AI and accessible technology really change for clinicians, payers, and patients.
Dr. Geeta Nayyar
Practicing physician, former Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce, and author of Dead Wrong on health misinformation. One of the preeminent voices on AI in healthcare, she shows clinical and payer audiences where the technology genuinely improves care and where trust, not tech, is the bottleneck.
Zack Kass
Former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, one of the earliest leaders to bring ChatGPT era AI into the enterprise. Translates frontier AI for healthcare executives: what large models will change in clinical workflow, payer operations, and drug development, and how to lead through it responsibly.
Mick Ebeling
Founder of Not Impossible Labs, 2-time SXSW Innovator of the Year, and the creator behind 3D printed prosthetics for Sudanese war victims and devices that let ALS patients communicate again. Proof for medical audiences that accessible technology can close impossible gaps in care.
Patient Experience and Advocacy
Allison Massari, Magic Johnson, and Emma Heming Willis bring the patient and caregiver voice into the center of healthcare's future.
Allison Massari
Survivor of two catastrophic accidents including a fiery car crash that left her with burns over 50 percent of her body. Her signature keynote on compassionate care is a staple at medical congresses, reminding clinicians that even amid burnout, they themselves are the medicine.
Magic Johnson
NBA Hall of Famer and billionaire businessman whose 1991 HIV announcement changed public health history. Three decades of thriving with the virus, plus major investments in underserved communities, make him a singular voice on patient advocacy, health equity, and hope for medical audiences.
Emma Heming Willis
NYT bestselling author and public advocate for family caregivers since her husband Bruce Willis's frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. Gives health systems, payers, and associations an unflinching view of the caregiver experience, brain health, and what better support for care partners actually looks like.
Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray
Lifelong best friends who crossed the 500 mile Camino de Santiago together, Patrick pushing Justin's wheelchair the entire way, the story behind the book and film I'll Push You. A living case study in caregiving, interdependence, and what patients and care partners make possible together.
Nicole Malachowski
First woman Thunderbird pilot, combat veteran, and White House Fellow whose flying career was ended by a devastating tick-borne illness. Her journey through years of misdiagnosis makes her a powerful voice for medical audiences on the patient experience, diagnostic humility, and reinvention after loss.
Workforce Resilience and Wellbeing
John O'Leary, Kasley Killam, and Dr. David Cox on burnout, social health, and keeping the people who deliver care whole.
Kasley Killam
Harvard-trained social scientist, author of The Art and Science of Connection, and a leading expert on social health. Brings health systems and payers the research case that connection is a vital sign, with practical strategies for loneliness, workforce wellbeing, and patient outcomes.
Dr. David Cox
Founding Chief Medical Officer of Headspace, the meditation platform used by tens of millions, and a physician focused on evidence-based mindfulness. Shows healthcare leadership how to deploy mental wellbeing tools that measurably reduce burnout and stress across clinical and corporate workforces.
Merril Hoge
Former NFL running back who beat stage 2 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and returned to broadcasting, author of Find a Way. His fight through cancer treatment and career-ending concussions gives healthcare audiences a patient's-eye lesson in grit, care teams, and refusing to quit.
Scott Burrows
Paralyzed in a car accident as a college football player and kickboxing champion, then built a top-producing financial career from a wheelchair. His Vision-Mindset-Grit framework gives medical and payer audiences a memorable structure for resilience through disruption, change, and setback.
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John O’Leary
Turned a $1,000 loan into The Corcoran Group and sold it for $66 million, then spent more than a decade backing founders as a Shark on Shark Tank. Straight talk on deals, grit, and what separates the entrepreneurs who make it.
The healthcare roster runs the full arc of the industry's future. Futurists and physician-scientists like Daniel Kraft, Peter Diamandis, Nick Webb, and Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner chart what is next for medicine, care delivery, and longevity. Dr. Geeta Nayyar, former OpenAI go-to-market head Zack Kass, and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling ground the AI and digital health conversation in what actually works. Allison Massari, Magic Johnson, Emma Heming Willis, and Nicole Malachowski put the patient and caregiver experience front and center, while John O'Leary, Kasley Killam, and Dr. David Cox speak to the resilience and wellbeing of the people who deliver care.
These speakers fit medical congresses, health system leadership summits, payer and pharma national meetings, physician and nursing association events, and hospital foundation galas, as opening or closing keynotes, plenary sessions, or half-day intensives. Booking through Rave Speakers means one call to check availability, confirm fees, and handle logistics end to end.
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