WPC 2021 Speakers
Dr. Danielle Ofri
Practicing physician at Bellevue Hospital for more than two decades. Founder and editor-in-chief of Bellevue Literary Review. Author of six books about life in medicine.
Fabiola Torres
Founder of Salud Con Lupa and co-founder of the investigative reporting website Ojo Público. Member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. ICFJ Knight Fellow.
Julie Salamon
Critic, journalist, and best-selling author. Author of 12 books as well as writer and co-host of The Devil’s Candy, Season Two of TCM’s podcast series, The Plot Thickens.
Mia Malan
Founding editor-in-chief of the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. Member of the council of the South African National Editors' Forum.
Amito Haarhuis
Director of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, the Netherlands. Fellow of the Noyce Leadership Institute; Member of the Board of Trustees of Ecsite. Board Member of VSC. Director of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
Francis Collins
Lydia Kang
Author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. Practicing physician.
Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty
Cardiac surgeon and successful entrepreneur. Founder and Chairman at Narayana Hrudayalaya Group of Hospitals. Current Chairman of the Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Dr. Allan Goldstein
Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at
Massachusetts General Hospital. Surgeon-in-Chief of MassGeneral Hospital for
Children. Co-director of the Pediatric Neurogastroenterology Program and
the Center for Neurointestinal Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Armando Hasudungan Faigl
Physician trainee and medical illustrator. Successful YouTuber with a channel by the name of Armando Hasudungan.
Dr. Gerald Michael Ssebunnya
Primary care physician and a bioethicist. Founder and Executive Director of Africa Institute for Human Dignity
(AIHD). Medical Director of Padre Pio Medical Centre in Gaborone, Botswana.
Dr. Rohin Francis
Consultant interventional cardiologist. Popular medical educator and radio broadcaster with over half a million followers across platforms. Teaches medical students.
Chidiebere Ibe
Creative Director at the Association of Future African Neurosurgeons (AFAN), Young Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (YCAANS) and Creative Director and Chief Medical Illustrator of the Journal of Global Neurosurgery.