Julielynn Wong MD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. Julielynn Wong is a brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable speaker who infuses powerful storytelling with a playful personality. She brings an unrivaled passion for ideas that inspire audiences to build diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to embrace innovation and engage technology to solve big challenges.

Following medical school at Queen’s University, Dr. Wong received a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to complete her Masters of Public Health degree studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine, aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, and clinical informatics has authored over 35 scientific and technical publications, and has 14 patents issued for medical devices. She worked as an aerospace medicine physician contractor at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to support the Boeing and SpaceX crewed launches.
She is a passionate educator who has taught courses and workshops for thousands of grade school, university, and postgraduate students. She founded Medical Makers, a program to inspire, educate, and empower a global community of innovators, patients, and healthcare providers to make sustainable solutions to save lives, time, and money. She is co-leading a Global Surgical Training Challenge Finalist Award Team that is making open-access, low-cost simulation training to empower healthcare practitioners to acquire new surgical skills without the need for mentors anywhere in the world at any stage of their career.