Keynote speakers give attendees an opportunity to hear from individuals whose breadth and vision extend beyond our specialty and inform us on the broader health care environment. We're excited to welcome this year’s speakers, with dynamic perspectives that tie into this year's theme: "Data to Dialogue: Communicating Radiotherapy's Value to Advance Care."
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Emanuel is an oncologist and world leader in health policy and bioethics. He is a Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council, and was instrumental in drafting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He also served on the Biden-Harris Transition Covid Advisory Board.
Dr. Emanuel is the most widely cited bioethicist in history. He has over 350 publications and has authored or edited 16 books. Recent books include Eat Your Ice Cream (2026), Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care (2020), Prescription for the Future (2017) and Brothers Emanuel (2013). Dr. Emanuel regularly contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and appears on BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and other media outlets. He has received numerous awards including election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science, the Royal College of Medicine (UK) and is currently a Guggenheim Fellow.
Dr. Emanuel has been named the Dan David Prize Laureate in Bioethics and is a recipient of the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award, President's Medal for Social Justice Roosevelt University, and the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Emanuel is a graduate of Amherst College, holds a MSc from Oxford University in Biochemistry and received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his PhD in political philosophy from Harvard University.
Scott Gottlieb, MD, is a physician and served as the 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and a partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates.
Under Dr. Gottlieb's leadership, the FDA advanced new frameworks for the modern oversight of gene therapies, cell-based medicines, and digital health devices. He promoted policies to reduce death and disease from tobacco, improve food safety, and aggressively confront addiction crises. The agency’s prolific advances in new policy distinguished his tenure as FDA Commissioner, along with a record-setting number of approvals for novel drugs, medical devices, and generic medicines.
Dr. Gottlieb is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Uncontrolled Spread: Why Covid-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic and is a regular contributor to CNBC and CBS News’ Face the Nation. In 2018 and again in 2019, Dr. Gottlieb was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders" and by Time Magazine as one of the “50 People Transforming Healthcare.” Dr. Gottlieb is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and completed medical school and a residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he majored in economics, and currently serves on the university’s board of directors. Dr. Gottlieb lives in Connecticut with his wife and three daughters.
