A seasoned public speaker, Dr. Virdi has delivered keynotes on histories of medical inequities, social injustice, disability rights, and contemporary issues of technological accessibility as well as her personal experiences of deafness and growing up as a deaf Sikh.

Dr. Virdi is represented by Damon Brooks & Associates. Please contact the agency if you’d like to invite her for an in-person or virtual lecture, keynote, or another event, or fill out the contact form.

Recent Speaking Engagements

  •  Keynote for “Ableism in Medicine and Clinical Research” National Institutes of Health Conference, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research/ Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
  • 13th annual Richard B. Davis History of Medicine Lecture, McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center.
  • Keynote for International Women Day at the Sikh Women’s Organization of Central California
  • C.F. Reynolds Lecture, Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
  • Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Durham
  • Keynote for Symposium hosted by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the State University of New York at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies, on “Irreducible Subjects: Disability and Genomics in the Past, Present and Future.”
  • Lecture for Homebase Disability History Month Event
  • Guest Lecture for Dr. Kelly O’Donnell’s course on Health Activism, Yale University