Who

Award-winning Ig Nobel Laureate Dan Meyer has garnered international recognition as a performer, public speaker, and expert for his research on the ancient art of sword swallowing, its dangers, risks and side effects. A passionate advocate for preserving the ancient art, Meyer is known for his informative and penetrating live performances, research studies, motivational talks, high profile stunts, and media appearances around the world. With over 250 cruises on Eastern Star Cruise Lines, Admiral Cruises, Carnival, RCCL, Cunard, Holland America, Silja Lines, and other cruise lines, Dan knows cruise ships and the kind of entertainment that cruiseship passengers (and Entertainment Directors) really like!

Performer
As a 5x Guinness World Record™ holder and featured Ripley's Believe It or Not performer, Dan swallows solid steel blades from 15 to 30 inches long and up to 8 swords at once. Known worldwide for swallowing a 30" sword while submerged 20 feet underwater in a tank of sharks and stingrays, Dan is widely recognized as one of the top performers of only a few dozen true sword swallowers left performing around the world today.

Expert
As Executive Director of the Sword Swallowers Association Int'l, avid historical researcher and collector of sword swallowing artifacts, and co-author of a 2 year-long medical study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal that won him the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard, Dan Meyer is widely recognized as the foremost authority in the world on the ancient art of sword swallowing.

Speaker
In demand as a featured speaker, Dan has been featured in hundreds of documentaries, interviews, articles, and medical/scientific lectures around the world.

How

Dan can present a lecture/presentation to reveal the ins and outs of sword swallowing, show x-rays, and explain the medical aspects of where the sword really goes in the human body, as well as describe the near-fatal injury he sustained while swallowing 5 swords at once.

Dan explains the social history of sword swallowing, explores why sword swallowers do it, and explains how science and medicine have employed sword swallowers for research over the past 150 years since Dr. Adolph Kussmaul enlisted a sword swallower to help develop the rigid endoscope in 1868.

And Dan can perform amazing demonstrations right before your very eyes... a very unique and interesting presentation to spice up your next science or medical program or event!

Where he's performed

From America's Got Talent to the Today Show, colleges and universities, mega youth conferences, artist tours, festivals and conventions in over 15 countries around the world, a seasoned veteran of over 250 cruises on Eastern Star Cruise Lines, Admiral Cruise Lines, Carnival Cruise Lines, RCCL, Cunard Cruise Lines, Holland America Lines, and Silja Lines, Dan knows how to wow your passengers with a show they will NEVER forget!

Here are just a few of the places Dan has performed:

NBC's America's Got Talent
The Today Show
MTV
ESPN
Discovery Channel
The Learning Channel
The History Channel
Buckingham Palace, London, England
Harvard University
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Oxford University, Oxford, England
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
Imperial College, London, England
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England
University of Dundee, Dundee Scotland
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, England
University of Aarhus, Denmark
University of Denmark, Copenhagen
University of Southern Denmark, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark
Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
MTSU Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
A&M University, Huntsville, AL
Waldorf College, Forest City, IA
St. Thomas Aquinas College, Nashville, TN
St. Joseph University, Mobile, AL
Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Vanderbilt Stallworth Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Newcastle Science Centre for Life, Newcastle, England
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester, UK
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, IL
Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham, UK
Fame Labs International Finals, Cheltenham, UK
Hewlett Packard, Bristol, UK
Festival della Scienza, Genoa, Italy
Forskningens Døgn Science Festival, Denmark
Fjord og Baelt, Kerteminde, Denmark
HealthCamp Nash, David Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
Southern Hills Medical Center, Nashville, TN
and more...

In Medical documentaries and articles as seen on

The Discovery Channel
Discovery Health Channel
Discovery International
CNN Health with Sanjay Gupta
The Learning Channel
ABC Medical News
British Medical Journal
Scientific American
Science Daily
National Geographic
Nature Magazine
BBC
BBC World TV
BBC Radio
CBC
NPR
PBS
and more.

Where he can perform

• Science Museums, Science Centers
• Hospitals, Medical Centers, clinics, seminars
• Regional, state, and national Medical Association Meetings and Conventions
• GERD, Dysphagia and Swallowing Disorder Clinics and research centers
• Colleges, Universities, Medical Colleges
• Motivational programs and keynote speeches
• Documentaries, medical articles, research studies
• For YOUR  next Science or Medical program!

Events in the UK and throughout Europe may also include a PowerPoint presentation lecture by co-author Dr. Brian Witcombe, consulting radiologist Gloucester Royal Hospital, on their article "Sword Swallowing and its side effects" as published in the British Medical Journal. The team has presented this lecture to popular acclaim at Harvard, MIT, Oxford University, Imperial College, the Newcastle Centre for Life, BBC, ITV, Guardian Newsroom, at the Cheltenham Science Festival, Festival Della Scienza in Italy, and on various other Ig Nobel Tours of the UK.

Please inquire for details of having the team speak at YOUR event in Europe!