Speakers 2025

Blending service design with a lifelong love of dance, Alice Gregory shows how movement can support wellbeing and help create more inclusive preventative healthcare.

Professor of Anatomy Claire Smith shares the powerful legacy of the “Silent Teachers” and how body donation continues to shape medicine and save lives.

Drawing on his Congolese heritage, David reflects on the importance of cultural practices in shaping compassionate, person-centred healthcare.

Midwife and founder Jemma Martin calls for better care for hyperemesis gravidarum, drawing on lived experience to drive understanding and change.

Dr Lauren Bull examines how a hyper-digital world is reshaping young people’s understanding of sex—and why honest connection matters in the clinic and the bedroom.

Drawing on her work in prison healthcare, Natalie Miller explores why dignity, humanity, and care must sit at the heart of systems built for punishment.

Emergency medicine doctor and humanitarian Priyesh Patel challenges us to see the unseen—and confront the crises we too often ignore.

Neurodivergent speaker and psychology master’s student Shirin Yazdian challenges stereotypes and highlights the value neurodivergent clinicians bring to healthcare.

Medical photographer and advocate Stacey Hussell uses storytelling and imagery to challenge perceptions and transform representation of visible difference.

Lead Clinical Physiotherapist Tom Reading explores how physiotherapy and movement can save futures for young people in cancer care.