zoanne clackMD, MPH

ON STAGE & IN THE ROOM

Speaking.

Big ideas.
Human connection.

From the emergency room to the writers’ room, Zoanne brings science, candor, and a storyteller’s empathy to conversations about health, reinvention, and who gets to be seen.

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Zoanne Clack speaking with fellow panelists at Aspen Ideas: Health
ASPEN IDEAS: HEALTH · HEALTH GOES HOLLYWOOD · 2025
PHYSICIAN · MD, MPHGREY’S ANATOMY · EXECUTIVE PRODUCERSTATION 19 · FORMER CO-SHOWRUNNER

A CONVERSATION THAT MEETS PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE

Science with rigor.
Stories with heart.

“I speak with the authority of a physician and the empathy of a storyteller.”

Zoanne brings clinical training, a public health perspective, and experience leading creative teams into the same room. Her talks connect the ideas behind her work with the questions facing an audience: how to communicate with care, change direction, and create space for others.

For healthcare and public health communities, creative teams, professional associations, and universities. Discuss keynotes, fireside conversations, and panels with CAA Speakers.

PUBLIC HEALTH · CAREER REINVENTION · REPRESENTATION

Speaking topics.
Ideas that move people.

The power of a story

PUBLIC HEALTH · STORYTELLING · IMPACT

A medical fact can explain what is happening. A character can help us understand what it feels like. Drawing on her work in emergency medicine, public health, and television, Zoanne explores how science and storytelling can work together to make health, equity, and access personal.

A conversation forHealthcare teams, public health organizations, advocates, and communicators.

Ideas audiences can carry forward

  • Connect complex information to the human experience behind it.
  • Bring accuracy, empathy, and responsibility into the stories you tell.
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Permission to pivot

REINVENTION · CREATIVITY · POSSIBILITY

Communications, medicine, public health, television: Zoanne’s career only looks like a straight line in the rearview mirror. She shares the uncertainty of changing direction, the courage it takes to own a creative ambition, and how experience from one field can become an unexpected strength in another.

A conversation forPhysicians exploring a new direction, professional communities, and university audiences.

Ideas audiences can carry forward

  • Recognize the skills and experiences you can carry into a new field.
  • Make room for creativity alongside an established professional identity.
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Who gets to be seen?

REPRESENTATION · LEADERSHIP · BELONGING

Whose experience becomes a story, and who gets to help tell it? With a perspective shaped by medicine and creative leadership, Zoanne considers the responsibility of representing people with care—and of opening the room to voices that have too often been left outside it.

A conversation forCreative teams, emerging writers, leadership groups, and organizations working toward greater inclusion.

Ideas audiences can carry forward

  • Consider how the people in a room shape the stories that come out of it.
  • Connect representation on screen with mentorship and opportunity behind the scenes.
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GET A FEEL FOR THE CONVERSATION

Curious. Candid.
Fully human.

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Aspen Ideas: HealthWatch · 51 min

On stage at Aspen: a conversation about the responsibility and possibility of telling health stories on screen.

She Pivots · InstagramWatch · Reel

Zoanne reflects on leaving the ER, moving to Los Angeles, and finding the courage to own her creative ambitions.

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A short introduction

Zoanne Clack, MD, MPH is an emergency physician turned television writer, executive producer, and speaker. She has been part of Grey’s Anatomy since its beginning as a writer and medical advisor, serves as an executive producer, and was co-showrunner of Station 19 for its final season. Her training spans communications at Northwestern, medicine at UT Southwestern, emergency medicine and public health at Emory, and international work with the CDC. She is co-chair of the Hollywood, Health & Society advisory board at USC’s Norman Lear Center. Through storytelling, advocacy, and creative leadership, she works to connect science with empathy and open doors for underrepresented voices.

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What does Zoanne Clack speak about?

Her themes bring together public health and storytelling, career reinvention from medicine to television, representation, and creative leadership. Explore the topics above, then discuss the right conversation for your event with CAA.

Which audiences are a good fit?

Healthcare professionals, public health and advocacy organizations, universities, creative teams, and emerging writers. Zoanne’s experience connects scientific training, television storytelling, and the questions people face when considering a new direction.

Can I discuss creative or advisory work with Zoanne?

For creative collaborations, advisory conversations, and media interviews, use the contact links on her About page. CAA remains the contact for speaking engagements.

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