Global Health Innovator to Speak at ASU’s Distinguished Lectureship in Science

SAN ANGELO, TX - Dr. Joel Selanikio, a leading innovator in global health technology and CEO of the Magpi data collection company, will deliver Angelo State University's 47th annual Distinguished Lectureship in Science Honoring Dr. Roy E. Moon on Tuesday, March 25, in the Houston Harte University Center, 1910 Rosemont Drive.

Selanikio will make two public presentations:

• 2 p.m. - "Power to the People: How Technology is Democratizing Knowledge and Capability"

• 7 p.m. - "Doctor You: The Shift from Expert-Focused to Consumer-Driven Health"

Both presentations will take place in the University Center's C.J. Davidson Conference Center and are free and open to the public.

Also a practicing physician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital, Selanikio bridges the worlds of healthcare, global health and technology to illustrate opportunities in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing and mobile technology to health, healthcare and social challenges. He is also a former outbreak investigator and Ebola clinic director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and as an officer of the Public Health Service in 2001, he served as chief of operations for the Health and Human Services Emergency Command Center after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Selanikio's broad career has allowed him to observe and leverage the great technological changes of our time - including the worldwide shift from personal computers to mobile, the adoption of cloud technologies, and the growing application of big data to healthcare - as few others have done. He was named in 2009 as one of Forbes' "most powerful innovators," and he has received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation and the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare for his work in healthcare technology.

As a TED speaker, Selanikio has spoken at or provided consultation to a variety of organizations, including the Royal Society of Medicine, Harvard University, the Stanford University School of Business, DARPA, the World Economic Forum at Davos, and Google - and he has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Economist, CNN, Fox News and the BBC, among others.

The Distinguished Lectureship in Science honors Dr. Roy E. Moon, a longtime San Angelo obstetrician and gynecologist, who died in 1976. He practiced for 28 years with Clinic Hospital Medical Associates, later West Texas Medical Associates (WTMA).

The lectureship was established in 1976 and for 43 years, through 2019, it was underwritten by an annual grant from the members of WTMA. In 2022-23, it received generous funding support provided by Shannon. Each year, the lectureship brings a scientist of national prominence to ASU for public lectures, colloquia and informal discussions.

The Distinguished Lectureship in Science is ASU's longest-running and most prominent public lectureship, and securing new funding support to continue the series is one of the top priorities of ASU's ongoing "Leading the Charge" capital campaign.

Contributions can be made online at angelo.edu/leading-the-charge or by contacting the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 325-942-2116.