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TEDMED 2020
Shekinah Elmore
The courage to live with radical uncertainty
Wanda Irving
How the US medical community fails Black mothers
Cheryl Holder
The link between climate change, health and poverty
Lisa Sanders
Why we need medical diagnosis detectives
Kevin Toolis
Our existential flight from death - and wisdom on connecting to grief
Michel Maharbiz
Using neural dust to eavesdrop on our organs
Cheryl King
A simple, powerful way to help prevent teen suicide
Gokul Upadhyayula
The life unfolding inside your cells, revealed in 3D
Matt Hepburn
3 building blocks for pandemic prevention that inspire optimism
Jyoti Sharma
How small collective actions create a water secure world
Peter Piot
Q&A with Peter Piot about COVID-19
Thomas Abt
Why violence clusters in cities - and how to reduce it
Joseph Shin
How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system
TEDMED 2018
Mitchell H. Katz
What the US health care system assumes about you
Daniel Streicker
What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
Emily F. Rothman
How porn changes the way teens think about sex
Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed
How farmworkers are leading a 21st century human rights revolution
Carl June
A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer
Queen Dube
How a neonatal health innovator saves lives in Malawi
Sarkis Mazmanian
Why science says to listen to your gut
Amanda Sturgeon
Using biophilic design to heal body, mind, and soul
Denisse Rojas Marquez
No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care
Kathleen O'Donnell
How wearable robots are transforming human mobility
Jerome M. Adams
The 20th U.S. Surgeon General’s perspectives on the nation’s biggest health issues
Yoko K. Sen
How one musician is reimagining hospital sounds
David Asch
Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Mary Herbert
A groundbreaking way to stop mitochondrial disease
Matt King
What social media looks like when you can’t see
Mark Tyndall
The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment
Shai Shen-Orr
Hey Doc, how's my immune system doing?
Howard Stevenson
How to resolve racially stressful situations
Lennie Sender
The promise and limits of cancer immunotherapy
Sandy Hassink
The community’s role in the childhood obesity epidemic
Jim Johnson
Lessons learned from the center of America’s opioid epidemic
James Hamblin
Talking simply, not simplistically, about health
Jennifer Chenoweth
Mapping the emotional topography of a community
Ximena Lopez
How one pediatrician is supporting transgender youth
Steven McCarroll
How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain
Sian Leah Beilock
Why we choke under pressure—and how to avoid it
TEDMED 2016: What If
Mona Hanna-Attisha
Flint’s fight for America’s children
Jennifer Pluznick
You smell with your body, not just your nose
Susie Baldwin
Intervention in human trafficking through health care
Ryan Green and Dan Visconti
Curing ideological cancers with video games
Ketki Karanam
Personalizing the therapeutic effects of music
Nir Barzilai
Can we grow older without growing sicker?
Alia Crum
Harnessing the power of placebos
Anjan Chatterjee
How your brain decides what is beautiful
Sheila Nirenberg
What if robots could process visual information the way humans do?
Carolyn Jones
A tribute to nurses
Lucy Kalanithi
What makes life worth living in the face of death
Gunhild Stordalen
A recipe for a healthier planet
Lloyd Pendleton
The Housing First approach to homelessness
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Chris Mason
Discovering and designing genomes for Earth, Mars, and beyond
Kenneth Nealson
A change in the current of microbiology
Vivek Murthy
The Surgeon General’s prescription of happiness
Mary Bassett
Why your doctor should care about social justice
Peter Janicki
Turning waste to wealth
Reinvigorating anatomy through art
Dilip Jeste
Seeking wisdom in graying matter
Daria Mochly-Rosen
SPARKing a new generation in translational research
Bryant Terry
Stirring up political change from the kitchen
Hemai Parthasarathy
How entrepreneurship can amplify scientific impact
Karen Stobbe & Mondy Carter
Using improv to improve life with Alzheimer's
Vivienne Ming
The Paradox of Incentive Insensitivity
Holly Morris
Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
Heather Raffo
The liberty in loving like you cannot breathe
Kitra Cahana
My father, locked in his body but soaring free
Rupal Patel
Raising the volume of voice donations
Josh Stein
It's smart to design simple
Mark Levatich
Giving medicine a jolt
Foteini Agrafioti
Beating passcodes: Getting to the heart of your identity
Mariana Figueiro
Why an enlightened design integrates illumination
Ted Kaptchuk
Placebo effects make good medicine better
Drew Lakatos
Deploying airbag tech to protect the pedestrian
Amy Baxter
A needle pain awareness booster
Leana Wen
What your doctor won’t disclose
Nina Tandon
Borrowing from nature's living library
Jared Heyman
A doctor's office that can't be overcrowded
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
Gary Slutkin
What if we treated violence like a contagious disease?
John Kheir
Why couldn't we just have given her intravenous oxygen?
America Bracho
What happens when patients become leaders on the health team?
Raghava KK
What happens now...that I can read your brainwaves?
Harvey Fineberg
What is the U.S. health disadvantage?
Kelli Swazey
What happens when we welcome death in defining life?
Sally Okun
Does anyone in healthcare want to be understood?
Steve Gullans
When is "safe dosing" a dangerous prescription?
Zubin Damania
Are zombie doctors taking over America?
Ashley Atkinson
Are we ready for a Declaration of Food Interdependence?
Laura Deming
How can science and business team up for the long (health) haul?
Amy Abernethy
Can patient data have a second life?
Jonathan Bush
For Profit & Non-Profits: Can this marriage be saved?
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Can a "computer co-pilot" help anyone be a surgeon?
Diane Kelly
When is research an exercise in fertility?
Francis S. Collins
From discovery to health: Does it have to be a long and winding road?
Jay Lombard
What's the new map for mental illness?
David Icke
Can I wear my computer like a second skin?
Howard Shapiro
What is the source of all life?
Dan Perry
Do cells have a mid-life crisis?
Virginia Breen and Elizabeth Bonker
When you finally find your voice, what do you most want to say?
Barbara Bass
What is the surgeon’s flight simulator?
Bryan Stevenson
Is it healthy for America's identity to keep our eyes closed?
Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn
If you have an artificial heart, does that make you heartless?
Thomas Frieden
What do you do when your best shot falls short?
Teresa Monachino
If healthcare is really sick care, do I need a "sicktionary"?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
Daniel Kraft
How are technologies converging to drive medical progress?
Juan Enriquez
What is medicine’s missing measurement?
David Agus
Can we beat cancer by redefining it?
Peter Agre
What turns a scientist into a good-will ambassador?
Michael Graves
How could we design tomorrow's hospitals?
Remote Kontrol
Opening Night Performance - TEDMED 2011
Diana Nyad and Diana Nyad
Can you still swim with the sharks at 61?
Ashley Dombkowski
Do you have fashionable genes?
John Wynn
What is society’s secret pact with medicine?
Paul Stamets
Is the world ready for a Medical Mushroom Mystery Tour?
Nate Ball
Got a good beat?
Tim O'Reilly
What can the healthcare industry learn from Tech Titans?
Gabor Forgacs
Are you ready for tissues you can "print on demand"?
TEDMED 2010
Peter Daszak
What diseases come from animals?
Mark Hyman
When is a hacksaw a necessary medical device?
Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell
Who are you?
Anita Goel
How will nanotechnology be used in the body?
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?
Alexandra Drane
What five questions can save your life or end it?
Stephen Oesterle
Are we ready for 'wafer-sized' implantable medical devices?
Shaf Keshavjee
Can a human lung breathe outside the human body?
Craig Fugate
How do you choose between fast, perfect and cheap in response to disasters?
George Church
What's next for personal genomics?
Alex Berenstein
What can a radish irrigation field teach us about surgery?
Rudolph Tanzi and Henry Mccance
How can silicon valley cure Alzheimer's disease?
TEDMED 2009
Goldie Hawn
Does positive imagery make you healthy and happy?
Sanjay Gupta
Can media deliver accurate & trusted medical information?
Bill Davenhall
Can geographic information keep you healthy?
David Agus
Can a computer analyze proteins as well as the human body?
Ken Kamler
How does 'sheer will' help you survive?
Anne Wojcicki
Is your DNA your destiny?
Peter Menzel & Faith D'Alusio
What does the world eat?
Greg Lucier
When your genes can talk, what will they say?
David Blaine
Why will I talk for only 17min 4.4 seconds?
John E. Abele
How does true collaboration foster better health care?
Vic Strecher
What inspires true behavioral change?
Aimee Mullins
How tall do I want to be today?
Eric Silfen
How do we combine biomedical data in new ways?
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