

Joel Selanikio, M.D.



Expertise In:
- Health Care Sciences
- Innovation and Technology
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Global Health
Audience & Industry
- Associations
- Corporations
- Global Audiences
- The Health Care Industry
- The Technology Industry
A practicing physician, technologist, emergency responder, and entrepreneur, Joel Selanikio bridges the worlds of healthcare, global health and technology to illustrate opportunities in the application of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and mobile technology to health, healthcare, and social challenges.
A recognized innovator in global health, technology, and social enterprise, and a founding member of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Expert Roster, his broad career has allowed him to observe and leverage the great technological changes of our time – including the shift from personal computers to mobile, the adoption of cloud technologies, and the growing application of big data and artificial intelligence to healthcare – as few others have done. A TED speaker, he has also spoken at or provided consultation to organizations including the Royal Society of Medicine, Harvard, Stanford School of Business, DARPA, the World Economic Forum at Davos, and Google – and been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Information Week, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC, among others. A recipient of both the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation and the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare, he has been a leading advocate for the application of Silicon Valley business models to the information technology needs of global health and international development, and is a co-author of both "Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation: International Case Studies and Practice” and "Global Health Informatics: Principles and Application of eHealth and mHealth to Improve Quality of Care” from MIT.
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Joel Selanikio, M.D.'s Speech Topics
Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Health
Dramatic changes in the capacity, size and distribution of technology has meant an unprecedented acceleration in the generation of electronic data in recent years. This includes traditional health data, but also nontraditional sources like smartphones, shopping data and more. More recently, machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been developed which can utilize these enormous amounts of data, seeking useful patterns. While the commercial sector has taken the lead in applying AI to big data, it’s clear that it will also be applied to both the traditional healthcare system as well as to health promotion outside that system. Dr. Joel Selanikio, a technologist and practicing physician, leads the audience from the definitions and origins of big data through examples of the first steps—and the larger promise—of applying AI in healthcare.
Running the Hot Zone: From the Front Lines in the Fight Against Ebola
Innovation and Social Enterprise
Disruption, the Consumerization of Tech, and Healthcare IT
Collaboration in Science and Medicine
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