Meet the leaders and tastemakers participating in DOC 2026.
Every year, DOC hosts a rare kind of room: scientists and forward thinking leaders at the forefront of medical advances that are impactful right now, joining us from dozens of incredible institutions, companies, and organizations shaping what comes next.
A sampling of the organizations represented at DOC 2026:
Nikolina Lauc
CEO
GlycanAge
Lab Partner
Gary Lauder
Managing Director
Lauder Partners, LLC
Gary LeBlanc
President
EverMe AI
Keagan Lee, M.D. M.D.
Co-Founder & CEO
Sagis, PLLC
Larry Leisure
Co Founder & Managing Partner
Chicago Pacific Founders
Flora Lels-Carpenter
Vice President, Partnerships
DOC
Ari Levy M.D.
Founder, CEO
SHIFT
Founding Member, Alumni
Lara Lewington
Broadcaster and author
Various
Neel Lilani
Managing Director of Sales and Client Growth • Sales
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Partner
Benjamine Liu
Co-Founder & CEO
Formation Bio
Rob Lorenz
Surgeon, ex-President, Exec Advisor Ellison Institute Oxford
Cleveland Clinic London
Robert Lustig M.D.
Emeritus Professor (academic), Chief Medical Officer (entrepreneurial)
UCSF (academic), Biolumen (entrepreneurial)
Partner
Calum MacRae M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Prithwiraj Maitra
VP Global Skincare R&D
AbbVie
Lab Partner
Cecily Mak J.D.
General Partner
Wisdom Ventures Fund
Divesh Makan
Founding Partner
ICONIQ Capital
Faculty, Alumni
Shamila Makhija M.D.
Founding Dean, CEO, CAO
Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
Faculty
David Maltz
Chief Product Officer
Fareon
Stephanie Manson Brown
Vice President, R&D Allergan Aesthetics Head of Clinical Development & Scientific Innovation and Skincare
AbbVie
Lab Partner
Ken Mariash
CEO
Sinaptica Therapeutics
Lab Partner