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TEDMED 2020
Cheryl Holder
The link between climate change, health and poverty
Amit Choudhary
The power of CRISPR Cas9 comes with great responsibility
Anupam B. Jena
The profound difference between seeing and looking
Gokul Upadhyayula
The life unfolding inside your cells, revealed in 3D
April Zeoli
The frightening frequency of family mass shootings
Homer Venters
Exposing the deadly health risks of incarceration
Jonathan Gruber
What's next for healthcare reform
Wanda Irving
How the US medical community fails Black mothers
Ralph Nader
What it takes to create social change against all odds
Anne Marie Albano
How to raise kids who can overcome anxiety
Leor Weinberger
Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?
Beatie Wolfe
How music can rescue and restore our humanity
Anne Basting
How to meaningfully reconnect with those who have dementia
TEDMED 2018
David Asch
Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions
Daniel Streicker
What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
Sarkis Mazmanian
Why science says to listen to your gut
Rabiaa El Garani
Hope and justice for women who've survived ISIS
Steve Pantilat
Why palliative care is essential in the face of serious illness
Adam Waytz
Why do whistleblowers risk speaking out?
Thomas Curran
Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse
Marilène Oliver
The art and science of our digital selves
Yoko K. Sen
How one musician is reimagining hospital sounds
Amanda Sturgeon
Using biophilic design to heal body, mind, and soul
Lydia Bourouiba
How diseases and epidemics move through a breath of air
Sherry Johnson
My fight to end child marriage in America
Emily F. Rothman
How porn changes the way teens think about sex
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Bill Frist
Delivering peace through global health policy
Dan Knights
How we study the microbes living in your gut
Jim Johnson
Lessons learned from the center of America’s opioid epidemic
Steven McCarroll
How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain
Matt King
What social media looks like when you can’t see
Mark Tyndall
The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment
Linda B. Rosenthal
Periods aren't a luxury. Why are they taxed like one?
Lennie Sender
The promise and limits of cancer immunotherapy
Soka Moses
For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over
Amber Galloway Gallego
How sign language can bring music to life
Meg Gaines
Why partnership is at the core of effective healthcare
Sandy Hassink
The community’s role in the childhood obesity epidemic
Alta Charo
Should we fear gene editing?
TEDMED 2016: What If
Carolyn Jones
A tribute to nurses
Tomás Ryan
Are your brain's memories ever actually lost?
Nir Barzilai
Can we grow older without growing sicker?
Sheila Nirenberg
What if robots could process visual information the way humans do?
Ryan Green and Dan Visconti
Curing ideological cancers with video games
James Gordon
Fulfilling trauma's hidden promise
Ketki Karanam
Personalizing the therapeutic effects of music
Sharon Terry
Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
Sue Klebold
My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story
Elizabeth Letourneau
Child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable
Ted Meyer
A portrait of the patient experience
What if mental illness could be treated with electrical engineering?
Richard Kogan
Can music heal what meds can't?
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Vivek Murthy
The Surgeon General’s prescription of happiness
Jennifer Stellar
The positive effects of positive emotions
Holly Morris
Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone
Todd Coleman
A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
Laura Schmidt
Why we can't stop eating unhealthy foods
Sarah Gray
How my son's short life made a lasting difference
Pamela Wible
Why doctors kill themselves
Laurie Rubin
Foresight in hindsight: Blindly facing the future
Melissa Walker
Unmasking the invisible wounds of war
Reinvigorating anatomy through art
Russ Altman
What really happens when you mix medications?
Raj Patel
The secret ingredient for ending world hunger
Hemai Parthasarathy
How entrepreneurship can amplify scientific impact
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
Cole Galloway
A movement for mobility
Leslie Morgan Steiner
The inconceivable costs of baby-making
Amy McGuire
There is no genome for the human spirit
Elizabeth Kenny
On a scale of 1-10, how crazy are you?
Cathy Ladman
Have you heard the one about the comic with anorexia?
Josh Stein
It's smart to design simple
Nora Volkow
Why do our brains get addicted?
Eric Chen
Democratizing Science, One Question at a TIme
Elliot Swart
Seeing the doctor's visit through a different lens
Jared Heyman
A doctor's office that can't be overcrowded
Erica Frank
Eliminating the barriers to global medical education
Nadine Burke Harris
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Sonia Shah
How unhealthy paradigms become contagious
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
Larry Smarr
Can you coordinate the dance of your body's 100 trillion microorganisms?
Mike Pazin
Can an “orchestra” of scientists find the hidden music in your DNA?
Amy Abernethy
Can patient data have a second life?
Sally Okun
Does anyone in healthcare want to be understood?
John Maeda
How can design principles lead to more discovery and better treatment?
Ashley Atkinson
Are we ready for a Declaration of Food Interdependence?
Jay Walker
A tour of shifting power throughout the ages
Ryan Panchadsaram
How do we move from health data to health dialog?
Rafael Yuste
When should science shoot for the moon?
John Kheir
Why couldn't we just have given her intravenous oxygen?
America Bracho
What happens when patients become leaders on the health team?
Ramesh Raskar
How do we look at the future of health with both eyes?
Salvatore Iaconesi
Can a poet and a loving community make cancer a thing of beauty?
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Todd Park
Faster, higher, smarter: the Olympics? No, Uncle Sam
Jonathan Eisen
Who are “Me, Myself and Us?”
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Can a "computer co-pilot" help anyone be a surgeon?
Miguel Nicolelis
Can we move beyond the machine-brain barrier?
Jon Cohen
Why don’t patients behave like consumers?
Peggy Hamburg and Larry Brilliant
What would you decide if 311 million lives depended on it?
Seth Cooper
Why is my joystick smarter than your stethoscope?
E.O. Wilson
Was Einstein right about imagination?
Dan Perry
Do cells have a mid-life crisis?
Thomas Frieden
What do you do when your best shot falls short?
Marc Triola and John Qualter
Can medical school be a “Fantastic Voyage?”
Ali Ansary
So technology is a crutch…you got a problem with that?
Teresa Monachino
If healthcare is really sick care, do I need a "sicktionary"?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
Peter Agre
What turns a scientist into a good-will ambassador?
Freda Lewis-Hall
Where will the next medical breakthroughs come from?
Sheila Nirenberg
Can we speak the language of the brain?
Eric Schadt
How about a GPS for your DNA?
Joseph Desimone
Can Nanotechnology deliver mega-results?
Remote Kontrol
Opening Night Performance - TEDMED 2011
A.J. Jacobs
Healthy living - am I sick of it yet?
Charles Pell
What does the operating room of the future look like?
Ashley Dombkowski
Do you have fashionable genes?
Robert J. Hariri
Can a stem cell a day keep the doctor away?
Catherine Mohr
What is the future of intervention?
John Wynn
What is society’s secret pact with medicine?
Cheryl Pegus
Does it take a village to manage AIDS?
TEDMED 2010
A.J. Jacobs
What's in a year of living healthy?
David Agus
What do proteomics have to do with cancer survival?
Scott Parazynski
Your rocket is ready, but is your body 'go for launch?'
Craig Fugate
How do you choose between fast, perfect and cheap in response to disasters?
Alexandra Drane
What five questions can save your life or end it?
Greg Lucier
When will the genomic revolution in clinical care occur?
Alex Berenstein
What can a radish irrigation field teach us about surgery?
Danny Hillis
What's behind my curtain?
Hugh Herr
Can bionics make humans stronger, faster and more agile?
Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell
Who are you?
Marc Koska
What's the point of a syringe that breaks?
Walter S. Mossberg
Can the iPad change medicine?
Nathan Myhrvold
What's behind my curtain?
TEDMED 2009
Craig Venter
What could we do with synthetic life?
Sekou Andrews
Who are you?
Eric Topol
How do genetics and wireless medicine prevent disease?
Barton Kamen
How many cancers are there?
Philip Low
Can sleep shed light on the brain's dark matter?
Donna Karan
What happens when east meets west?
Colin Angle
Will a robot care for my mom?
Eric Silfen
How do we combine biomedical data in new ways?
Dean Kamen
Can a prosthesis be better than the real thing?
Greg Lucier
When your genes can talk, what will they say?
David Pogue
Can my iPhone save my life?
Ken Kamler
How does 'sheer will' help you survive?
Peter Diamandis
Does healthcare need a Charles Lindbergh moment?
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