Christopher Pissarides
Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 2010 | Regius Professor at LSE | Co-Chair, Institute for the Future of Work | Authority on AI, Labor Markets & Productivity
Lisa Sanders
Creator & Host of Netflix's Diagnosis | New York Times Magazine 'Diagnosis' Columnist | Medical Director, Yale Long COVID Care Center | Inspiration for House M.D.
Why does diagnosis go wrong, and what can leaders learn from the doctors who get it right? Lisa Sanders has turned that question into a Netflix series, a New York Times column, and the inspiration for House M.D. Now leading Yale's Long COVID care center, she shows executives how to question assumptions and find root causes before acting. Audiences leave with a diagnostician's method for their own most complex decisions.
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Lisa Sanders biography
Few physicians have changed how the public understands medicine as much as Dr. Lisa Sanders. Keynote speaker Lisa Sanders is the creator and host of the Netflix documentary series Diagnosis, the author of the long-running New York Times Magazine column of the same name, and the technical advisor whose work inspired the Emmy-winning drama House M.D. At the Yale School of Medicine, she serves as Medical Director of the Yale New Haven Health Long COVID Multidisciplinary Care Center, where she leads the effort to understand one of the most complex conditions in modern medicine.
Her path to medicine was unconventional. Sanders spent a decade as an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News before entering medical school at 36, trading questions that informed the public for questions that save lives. That reporter’s discipline (listen closely, verify everything, follow the evidence) became the foundation of her diagnostic method and of two acclaimed books, Every Patient Tells a Story and Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries.
Thinking Like a Diagnostician
Sanders’ central insight travels far beyond the clinic: the hardest problems, in medicine or in business, are rarely solved by more data. They are solved by better questions. At the Long COVID center she confronts cases where standard tests come back normal yet patients remain ill, forcing clinicians to challenge assumptions and rebuild their reasoning from first principles. It is the same discipline she teaches executives: filter the noise, resist premature conclusions, and find the root cause before acting.
As a speaker, Lisa Sanders brings the suspense of a medical mystery to the stage and turns it into practical lessons on decision-making and critical thinking under uncertainty. One of the most distinctive healthcare speakers working today, she leaves audiences with a detective’s toolkit for their own hardest cases, and the curiosity to use it.
Lisa Sanders Speaking Videos
Dr. Lisa Sanders - Why we need medical diagnosis detectives
Dr. Lisa Sanders investigates patients’ mysterious illnesses in Netflix’s “Diagnosis”
Lisa Sanders Keynote Topics
More than 30 million Americans live with rare diseases, and the average patient waits years for a correct diagnosis. According to Dr. Lisa Sanders, host of Netflix's Diagnosis, the problem reaches far beyond rare conditions: misdiagnosis is a widespread failure that costs lives every year.
In this keynote, Dr. Sanders makes the case for a different kind of medicine, one modeled on the detective. Drawing on Sherlock Holmes, she shows how clinicians can examine every piece of evidence, challenge their assumptions, and resist the urge to jump to conclusions. She also explains what the system needs to support them: better medical training, consistent feedback, and deeper specialization.
Audiences leave understanding why the right diagnosis is the foundation of every treatment that works, and how an investigative mindset can uncover the real causes behind symptoms that have stumped everyone else.
Every diagnosis is a high-stakes decision made with incomplete information. In this keynote, Dr. Lisa Sanders translates the diagnostic method she has refined over decades, in the clinic, in her New York Times Magazine column, and at Yale's Long COVID center, into a practical framework any leader can use.
Through real medical mysteries told with the suspense of a detective story, she shows audiences how to ask the questions that actually matter, separate signal from noise, recognize when a confident first answer is wrong, and trace problems to their root cause before acting. The result is a masterclass in critical thinking for executives, teams, and anyone who must make consequential decisions without all the facts.
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FAQs on Booking Lisa Sanders
Why Lisa Sanders?
Few speakers combine scientific authority with storytelling power the way Dr. Lisa Sanders does. She is the creator and host of Netflix's Diagnosis, the author of the New York Times Magazine column that inspired House M.D., and the Medical Director of Yale's Long COVID care center, credentials that make her one of the most recognizable voices in medicine. On stage, she turns real medical mysteries into gripping narratives that teach audiences how to question assumptions, filter noise, and find root causes. Healthcare audiences gain a masterclass in diagnostic excellence; corporate audiences gain a framework for decision-making under uncertainty. Book Lisa Sanders through Aurum Speakers Bureau for your next event.
What is Lisa Sanders known for?
Dr. Lisa Sanders is best known as the creator and host of the Netflix documentary series Diagnosis and as the author of the popular Diagnosis column in The New York Times Magazine, which served as the inspiration for the TV drama House M.D. She is an internal medicine physician on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine, the Medical Director of the Yale New Haven Health Long COVID Multidisciplinary Care Center, and the author of the bestselling book Every Patient Tells a Story. Before medicine, she was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News.
Did Lisa Sanders inspire House M.D.?
Yes. Dr. Lisa Sanders' Diagnosis column in The New York Times Magazine, which presents real unsolved medical cases as detective stories, was a key inspiration for the Emmy-winning Fox drama House M.D., starring Hugh Laurie. Sanders also served as a technical advisor to the show, helping its writers portray the diagnostic process authentically. The series' central idea, that diagnosis is detective work, remains the core of her books, her Netflix series, and her keynotes.
What topics does keynote speaker Lisa Sanders cover?
Lisa Sanders speaks about the art and science of diagnosis, decision-making under uncertainty, critical thinking, patient storytelling, Long COVID, and the future of medicine. Her keynotes work equally well for healthcare audiences, who get a masterclass in diagnostic reasoning, and for corporate audiences, who learn to approach business problems the way a diagnostician approaches a difficult case. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring Lisa Sanders' diagnostic approach to your stage.
How to book Lisa Sanders as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Lisa Sanders speaking fee?
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Can I book Lisa Sanders for a virtual keynote?
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