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TEDMED 2020
Gokul Upadhyayula
The life unfolding inside your cells, revealed in 3D
Wanda Irving
How the US medical community fails Black mothers
Cheryl King
A simple, powerful way to help prevent teen suicide
Francis X. Shen
Why every story is a brain story
Kevin Toolis
Our existential flight from death - and wisdom on connecting to grief
Ralph Nader
What it takes to create social change against all odds
Cheryl Holder
The link between climate change, health and poverty
Leor Weinberger
Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?
Thomas Abt
Why violence clusters in cities - and how to reduce it
Joseph Shin
How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system
Frederick Streeter Barrett
The neuroscience of psychedelic drugs, music and nostalgia
Sandro Galea
How health is threatened by hate
Beatie Wolfe
How music can rescue and restore our humanity
TEDMED 2018
Yaniv Erlich
How we're building the world's largest family tree
Adam Waytz
Why do whistleblowers risk speaking out?
Mitchell H. Katz
What the US health care system assumes about you
sj Miller
Why gender identity justice matters for everyone
Dikembe Mutombo
How a humanitarian turned NBA All-Star is changing healthcare in his homeland of the DRC
Denisse Rojas Marquez
No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care
Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed
How farmworkers are leading a 21st century human rights revolution
David Asch
Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions
Niobe Way
Why "boys will be boys" is a myth—and a harmful one at that
Amanda Sturgeon
Using biophilic design to heal body, mind, and soul
Carl June
A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer
Christine Nieves
Why community is our best chance for survival—a lesson post-Hurricane Maria
Thomas Curran
Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Sandy Hassink
The community’s role in the childhood obesity epidemic
Ximena Lopez
How one pediatrician is supporting transgender youth
Sian Leah Beilock
Why we choke under pressure—and how to avoid it
Jim Johnson
Lessons learned from the center of America’s opioid epidemic
Guo-li Ming
How organoids helped unravel the mystery of the Zika virus
Shai Shen-Orr
Hey Doc, how's my immune system doing?
Jill Goldstein
When it comes to heart and brain disorders, sex matters
Mark Tyndall
The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment
Dan Knights
How we study the microbes living in your gut
Jennifer Chenoweth
Mapping the emotional topography of a community
Betty Diamond
What happens when the immune system goes rogue?
Linda B. Rosenthal
Periods aren't a luxury. Why are they taxed like one?
Soka Moses
For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over
TEDMED 2016: What If
Bruce Schneier
Who controls your medical data?
Nir Barzilai
Can we grow older without growing sicker?
Charles Chiu
Combating infectious diseases with next-generation sequencing
Carolyn Jones
100 People: A World Portrait
Partho Sengupta
Using holography to reshape cardiology
Lloyd Pendleton
The Housing First approach to homelessness
James Gordon
Fulfilling trauma's hidden promise
David Casarett
A doctor's case for medical marijuana
Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud
A young poet tells the story of Darfur
Jennifer Pluznick
You smell with your body, not just your nose
Gunhild Stordalen
A recipe for a healthier planet
Ted Meyer
A portrait of the patient experience
Ketki Karanam
Personalizing the therapeutic effects of music
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Peter Janicki
Turning waste to wealth
Elizabeth Iorns
Prioritizing reproducibility for scientific advancement
Doug Rauch
A dignified solution for wasted food
Dilip Jeste
Seeking wisdom in graying matter
Kenneth Nealson
A change in the current of microbiology
Robert Wachter
The dangers of a digital diagnosis
Thomas Lee
Rediscovering health care's original goal: Reducing suffering
Sarah Gray
How my son's short life made a lasting difference
Pat Brown
Saving the planet means straying from the herd
Louise Greenspan
Weighing the causes of early puberty
Sangeeta Bhatia
Designing tiny tools to find a tumor
Sam Vaughn
Ending violence with an empowering antidote
Floyd Romesberg
Expanding the genetic alphabet
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
What veterinarians know that physicians don't
Gypsy Sound Revolution
A tantalizing blend of global sounds
Brian Primack
Staying healthy might be all fun and games
Jeffrey Iliff
One more reason to get a good night’s sleep
Rupal Patel
Raising the volume of voice donations
Kayt Sukel
Eliminating penalties for playing out of bounds
Bob Carey
Don't take life tutu seriously
Daniel Kohane
Smart vehicles for safer medications
John Cryan
Food for thought: How gut microbes change your mind
Rosie King
How autism freed me to be myself
Eric Chen
Democratizing Science, One Question at a TIme
Sigrid Fry-Revere
What can Iran teach us about the kidney shortage?
Foteini Agrafioti
Beating passcodes: Getting to the heart of your identity
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
Deborah Estrin
What happens when each patient becomes their own "universe" of unique medical data?
Mick Cornett
When is a Lose-Lose a Win-Win?
Elazer Edelman
How do we bridge the gap in medical innovation?
Isaac Kohane
How can every clinical visit be used to advance medical science?
Danny Hillis
What's the 21st century version of prevention?
Jay Walker
Studying an historically accelerating pace of change
Pritpal S Tamber
What's the human factor that lets innovation succeed?
Ramesh Raskar
How do we look at the future of health with both eyes?
Amanda Bennett
When death is the enemy, what is victory?
Kelli Swazey
What happens when we welcome death in defining life?
Larry Brilliant
Ending Pandemics: How close are we today?
Ryan Panchadsaram
How do we move from health data to health dialog?
Jay Walker
The evolution of humanity's understanding of life and death
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Jon Cohen
Why don’t patients behave like consumers?
Mark Hyman
If we can’t cure the patient, can the community do it?
Leslie Saxon
Can we get 8-billion heartbeats on speed dial?
Ivan Oransky
Is the “disease model” sick – or just exhausted?
Miguel Nicolelis
Can we move beyond the machine-brain barrier?
Gail McGovern
What happens when one person’s disease becomes everybody’s business?
Ali Ansary
So technology is a crutch…you got a problem with that?
Jay Walker
When did the era of modern science begin?
Marc Triola and John Qualter
Can medical school be a “Fantastic Voyage?”
Seth Cooper
Why is my joystick smarter than your stethoscope?
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Can a "computer co-pilot" help anyone be a surgeon?
Dan Perry
Do cells have a mid-life crisis?
Barbara Bass
What is the surgeon’s flight simulator?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
Sheila Nirenberg
Can we speak the language of the brain?
Lee Stein
How did GenX inspire next-gen medical imaging?
Barton Kamen
What happens when doctors become patients?
Quyen Nguyen
Have you got that inner glow?
Calvin Harley and Elissa Epel
What do telomeres tell you about longevity?
Rick Smolan
What is the power to heal?
Michael Rosenblatt
How can we help the developing world get healthier?
John Wynn
What is society’s secret pact with medicine?
Ashley Dombkowski
Do you have fashionable genes?
Chris Toumazou
When will wireless medicine change healthcare?
Gabor Forgacs
Are you ready for tissues you can "print on demand"?
Ger Brophy
Can we tailor your treatment using deeper diagnostics?
Nate Ball
Got a good beat?
TEDMED 2010
Emlyn Koster
What can a 12 year-old learn from live surgery?
Anita Goel
How will nanotechnology be used in the body?
Anna Barker
Can government cure cancer?
Peter Daszak
What diseases come from animals?
Jay Walker
Imagination Talks: The First Medical Book
Alex Berenstein
What can a radish irrigation field teach us about surgery?
Stephen Oesterle
Are we ready for 'wafer-sized' implantable medical devices?
Charity Tillemann-Dick
What's the medical relevance to my aria?
Mehmet Oz and Daphne Oz and Lisa Oz
How does a family work together on health?
Clifton Leaf
How do we change the war on cancer?
Hugh Herr
Can bionics make humans stronger, faster and more agile?
A.J. Jacobs
What's in a year of living healthy?
Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne and Nathaniel Pearson
What will the unveiling of a full Osbourne genome reveal?
TEDMED 2009
Goldie Hawn
Does positive imagery make you healthy and happy?
Jamie Heywood
What does open research and medicine look like?
John E. Abele
How does true collaboration foster better health care?
Martha Stewart
How do we transform care for the elderly?
Barton Kamen
How many cancers are there?
David Pogue
Can my iPhone save my life?
David Agus
Can a computer analyze proteins as well as the human body?
Eric Topol
How do genetics and wireless medicine prevent disease?
Ken Kamler
How does 'sheer will' help you survive?
Aimee Mullins
How tall do I want to be today?
Craig Venter
What could we do with synthetic life?
Greg Lucier
When your genes can talk, what will they say?
Bill Davenhall
Can geographic information keep you healthy?
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