Joel Selanikio

Joel Selanikio is an American physician. He is an attending pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital[1]

Joel Selanikio
Joel Selanikio at TEDxAustin in 2013
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater
AwardsLemelson–MIT Prize
Scientific career
FieldsPhysician
InstitutionsMagpi

Education

Selanikio graduated from Haverford College, Philadelphia, in 1986, and then worked for Chase Manhattan as a systems analyst. He completed a degree in medicine at Brown University and did his residency in Atlanta, Georgia.[2]

Career

Selanikio worked for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He left his job there to start DataDyne.org, a company that made open-source software for collecting data on public health.[3][4]

After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Selanikio worked with the International Rescue Committee in Aceh, Indonesia.[2] In 2014–2015, during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, he worked with the International Medical Corps in Lunsar.[5]

Presentations

  • TED (2013)[6]
  • Ivey Global Health Conference (2013)[7]
  • Royal Society of Medicine Lecture (2011)[8]
  • World Economic Forum “Tech for Society” Panel, Davos (2010)[9]
  • Lemelson-MIT Innovation Prize Lecture (2009)[10]

Recognition

  • ComputerWorld 21st Century Achievement Award (2012)[11]
  • Fast Company Magazine Social Enterprise of the Year (2009)[12]
  • Wall Street Journal Award for Technological Innovation in Healthcare (2009)[13]
  • Lemelson-MIT Prize $100,000 Award for Sustainable Innovation (2009)[4]
  • Tech Museum Award for Health (2008)[14]
  • Stockholm Challenge (2008)[15]
  • Haverford College Award (2005)[16]

References

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