Hi-Med Talks
We host a variety of speakers discussing all the ways medical professionals can have a wide-reaching positive impact.
Joey Savoie
This is a recording of a talk given by Joey Savoie, Co-founder at Charity Entrepreneurship, that recently rebranded to Ambitious Impact, at the High Impact Medicine conference in London in January 2024.
Professor Chris Lavy
This is a recording of our virtual speaker event on Global Surgery with Professor Lavy. Professor Lavy has set up two orthopaedic treatment centres in Malawi and an international treatment programme for clubfoot that spans over 15 countries. He focuses on medical training and scaling surgery for district and rural populations in Africa. This work has earned him an OBE, and he is a commissioner for The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.
Dr Alastair Yeoh
This is a recording of a virtual speaker event on Humanitarian Medicine and Global Health with Dr Alastair Yeoh, a UK-based doctor passionate about improving healthcare for people in low-income countries. During his work with Medicins Sans Frontieres in Zambia and Ethiopia, he saw first-hand the tragic effects of poverty and disease but also the huge impact that well-planned interventions can have on people’s lives. He is pursuing a career in infectious diseases and global health and is also passionate about effective giving, having taken the GWWC pledge in 2019 and co-founded GiveHealth.
Karolina Sarek
Karolina Sarek is the Co-founder and Director of Programs at Charity Entrepreneurship.
In this video, she discusses what it takes to start your own charity, why you should consider it as a career path, and whether nonprofit entrepreneurship might be a good fit for medical professionals.
Professor Mihaela Van Der Schaar
Professor Mihaela Van Der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine and was recognised in 2019 as the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK. Her lab has developed revolutionary tools that are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in medicine, from predicting the use of ventilators and ICU beds in the pandemic to recommending therapies for breast cancer better than current international best practice.
In a talk hosted by High Impact Medicine in collaboration with Cambridge Medical Society, Prof. Van Der Schaar speaks about her work and the future of AI in medicine!
Dr Lucia Coulter
Dr Lucia Coulter is a Junior Doctor and Co-founder and Co-director of the Lead Exposure Elimination Project, LEEP, a non profit working to reduce lead exposure via lead based pain. Check out her talk on Medicine, non- profit entrepreneurship and lead.