Joel Selanikio

Joel Selanikio is an American physician, attending pediatrician, and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital.

Education
Selanikio graduated from Haverford College, Philadelphia, in 1986. He then started to work for Chase Manhattan as a systems analyst. He also completed a degree in medicine at Brown University and settled in Atlanta, Georgia.

Career
After his residency in Atlanta, Selanikio started to work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He then left his job to start DataDyne.org, a company that made open-source software for collecting data on public health.

After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Selanikio worked with the International Rescue Committee in Aceh, Indonesia. During the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, he worked with the International Medical Corps in Lunsar.

Presentations

 * TED (2013)
 * Ivey Global Health Conference (2013)
 * Royal Society of Medicine Lecture (2011)
 * World Economic Forum “Tech for Society” Panel, Davos (2010)
 * Lemelson-MIT Innovation Prize Lecture (2009)

Recognition

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