The Royal College is pleased to announce Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD as the 2025 Professor-in-Residence. In this role, Dr. Meskó will contribute his extensive expertise to support and guide AI-driven initiatives and actively engage in discussions on the impact of AI in specialty medicine and education.
Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD, known as The Medical Futurist, is the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute. He specializes in analyzing the impact of science fiction technologies on global medicine and healthcare.
As a geek physician with a PhD in genomics, he is also an Amazon Top 100 author and serves as a Private Professor at Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest, Hungary.
Dr. Mesko has delivered over 900 keynotes at prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities, as well as organizations like the WHO and the world's top 10 pharmaceutical companies. His insights on healthcare technology have made him a leading global voice in the field.
Featured by major media outlets including CNN, National Geographic, Forbes, TIME magazine, BBC, and the New York Times, Dr. Mesko regularly shares his analyses on medicalfuturist.com.