Health, Medicine & Healthcare speakers
Marcus is a Founding Partner of Jumpstart Health Investors (JHI), the most active early-stage healthcare venture capital firm in America. LEARN MORE »
Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech and Co-Author of The Age of Scientific Wellness
Journalist who specializes in outsiders and underdogs, & bestselling author of the books Factory Man, Truevine and Dopesick
• Former Washington Post editor & correspondent
• Author of Eat & Flourish: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being
• Columnist & author of several books, including The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
• Founder and CEO of Modern Mommy Doc
• Pediatrician & Expert on work/life balance
• The dancing doctor who inspired millions around the world
• #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Wheat Belly
• Founder of the world’s highest medical clinic at Mount Everest
• Former executive editor of Wired & Chief of Research/Chief Communications Officer at GoodRx
• Bestselling author & entrepreneur on creating a culture of health
• Co-founder of Building H, a nonprofit with a mission to build health into everyday life
• Author of The Leader's Guide to Managing Risk: A Proven Method to Build Resilience and Reliability
• Widely recognized as the father of the airline industry’s landmark Aviation Safety Action Programs
• Author of The Rabbit Effect
• Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University
• New York Times columnist, acclaimed author & physician
• Journalist who specializes in outsiders and underdogs
• Bestselling author of the books Factory Man, Truevine, and Dopesick
• Journalist & co-founder of Memory Well
• Author of Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works
• Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech
• Co-Author of The Age of Scientific Wellness
• Medical ethnobotanist & Professor at Emory University
• Author of 'The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines'
• 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Author of The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
• Managing Director, Pandemic Response, Preparedness, and Prevention, Health Initiative, at The Rockefeller Foundation
• Renowned journalist
• Bestselling author on global issues, taxes and healthcare
• Professor at the College for Public Health and Social Justice at St. Louis University
• Former psychiatric nurse, heart-led consultant, and international speaker who has spoken on stages like TEDx
• Executive coach trusted by Fortune 100 companies
• Creator of Path of Least Regret® and other tools for navigating hard situations
• Award-winning patient advocate and cancer survivor
• Founder of Black Doctors Consortium, Center for Health Equity, and R.E.A.L. Concierge Medicine
• Author of Take Care of Them Like My Own Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice
• Former Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of the Mid-Atlantic
• CEO of Serigraph
• Former professor at the Harvard Business School
• Author on delivering a reality check in management ethics and healthcare
• Author of The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
• Reporter for Science Magazine
• Co-founder/minority owner of Major League Soccer team in Nashville
• Author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, Create and Orchestrate: The Path to Claiming Your Creative Power from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
• Founding Partner of Jumpstart Health Investors
• leads Jumpstart Nova, the first healthcare venture fund in America investing exclusively in Black founded and led startups
• IBJJF World Master Champion (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)