Join us for Lincoln Leads in Medicine: Lockdown Edition, in conversation with Dr Alan Garfinkel and Dr David Walcott. This is the third of five discussions on themes at the intersection of disease and society: Language & Literature, Epidemiology & Public Health, Medicine, Cognitive Epidemiology, and Politics.

Dr David Walcott completed his MSc in Immunology and DPhil in Clinical Medicine at Lincoln, as a Rhodes Scholar, as well as an accelerated MBA at INSEAD. He has made a career as an entrepreneurial MD and is currently working on driving investment into the Caribbean towards developing regional healthcare and is consulting with several governments in the Caribbean on their CoVID-19 responses. He has been introducing world-class healthcare solutions into the Caribbean under his consulting firm, Novamed, which leads a platform that functions as a ‘Davos of the Caribbean’. His goal is to ensure that countries in the Caribbean have both the knowledge and resources to tackle the unprecedented issues we are facing today.

Dr Alan Garfinkel is Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor at Lincoln College, Oxford. His permanent post is as Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His educational background is in philosophy and mathematics. After a stint as a philosophy professor, he turned to focus on mathematical modeling as a scientific research tool. His research uses mathematical models to understand cardiac arrhythmias.