Selected Stages
Where I've Spoken
Most healthcare keynotes are performed for applause. Mine are built to change how a room thinks. I've spoken at HIMSS, ViVE, ACHE, HLTH, Becker's, DeviceTalks, and AMIA, always from the same position: the physician who actually knows what happens when the presentation ends and the technology goes live.
There are speakers who explain healthcare transformation from the outside. They've read the reports, studied the case studies, and built slide decks that make everything sound manageable.
Then there are speakers who've been inside the systems: who've practiced medicine, led enterprise technology strategy at one of the largest health IT companies in the world, watched well-funded transformations collapse at the implementation layer, and understood exactly why.
I give the second kind of keynote. The one that doesn't hide the tradeoffs. The one that tells the room what's actually happening, and what to do about it.
The feedback I get most often is some version of: "That's the most honest talk I've heard at a healthcare conference in years." That's the bar I hold myself to.
Book Sarah to SpeakSignature Keynote
Healthcare can be delivered across geography, technology, and trust, if you understand the operational architecture required to make it work. This keynote presents the full framework: what borderless care actually means, where it's already happening, and what stands between the current state and a system that can actually scale. Drawn directly from the book.
Best for: Health system C-suites, national conference main stage, payer executive summits, digital health investor forums
AI Track
Every health system has an AI strategy. Most of them will fail at deployment. This talk diagnoses the specific failure modes: physician adoption, workflow integration, liability ambiguity, and the organizational structures that determine whether AI goes live or goes to the pilot graveyard. Built from direct experience leading AI product strategy at Oracle Health and observing adoption patterns across hundreds of health system deployments.
Best for: HIMSS, ACHE, internal health system leadership retreats, digital health company all-hands
Physician Leadership
Physicians are the most credentialed, least developed leadership pipeline in American enterprise. This talk is for the ones who know there's more they could do if they could figure out how to get into the rooms where decisions are made. Practical, direct, and built from making that transition myself without a map.
Best for: AMA meetings, residency leadership programs, physician executive development conferences, medical school innovation programs
Digital Health Founders
Digital health companies are building genuinely good products that can't convert pilots to enterprise contracts. Not because the technology fails, but because they don't understand how hospitals buy, how clinicians adopt, and what "operational fit" actually means inside a health system. This talk gives founders the clinical and organizational framework to stop burning runway on the wrong problems.
Best for: Rock Health Summit, HLTH, JPM Healthcare Conference, investor portfolio company retreats, accelerator demo days
Conference
30–60 minute keynotes built for national conferences, association annual meetings, and main stage programming. Designed to be the talk people reference in hallway conversations for the rest of the conference.
Executive
Tailored 45–90 minute sessions for health system boards, C-suite retreats, and payer leadership offsites. Interactive, specific to the organization's strategic context, and designed to drive alignment on hard decisions.
Panel
Candid panel participation and moderator engagements. I don't do talking-point panels. If the format requires actual disagreement and real insight, I'm in.
The best signal for a speaker is the room. The session below covers what the AI conversation at healthcare conferences consistently gets wrong, and what the actual implementation conversation should look like.
More content at @DrSarahMatt-ClinicalRealist · Full speaker kit available upon request
"Sarah was the speaker our audience had been waiting for. Every other session gave them frameworks. She gave them the reality behind the frameworks: what breaks at the implementation layer, what the vendor won't tell you, and what the data actually says. The room did not check their phones."
Conference Programming Chair
"We brought Sarah in to speak to our executive leadership team on AI strategy. What we didn't expect was that she'd identify the exact gap in our integration approach within the first fifteen minutes, without having seen our internal documentation. That's what a decade inside these systems buys you."
Chief Medical Officer
Speaking inquiries are reviewed personally. For conference programming, board retreats, and executive events: reach out directly with your event details, expected audience, and preferred topics.
Available for: U.S. and international keynotes, corporate retreats, medical conferences, investor forums, and digital health summits.