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John Glaser, Ph.D.

CEO, Siemens Healthcare – Health Services

Will talk about:
The Impact of Information Technology on Health Care Delivery

Session:
Keynote lecture

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.

Founder, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute.

Will talk about:
From Reading to Writing the Genetic Code

Session:
Keynote lecture

David J. Balaban, Ph.D.

Vice President, Research & Development Informatics, Amgen Inc.

Will talk about:
Engineering Drug Dosing in Dynamic Biological Systems

Session:
Keynote lecture

Angela Belcher Ph.D.

W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Will talk about:
From Nature and back again…Giving new life to materials for energy, electronics, medicine and the environment

Session:
Keynote lecture

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland Ph.D.

Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences, MIT

Will talk about:
The Third Ring of Health

Session:
Keynote lecture

Mara G. Aspinall, M.B.A.

Chief Executive Officer, On-Q-ity, Inc.

Will talk about:
Re-engineering the War on Cancer: A Call to Action for Personalized Medicine

Session:
Luncheon lecture

Kamil Ugurbil Ph.D.

McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair of Radiology, University of Minnesota

Will talk about:
Frontiers in Neuroimaging: from cortical columns to whole brain function, connectivity and morphology

Session:
Keynote lecture

Dean Kamen

Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation

Will talk about:
The Process of Innovation

Session:
Keynote lecture

Dale C. Wiggins, M.S.

Vice President of Technology for Philips Healthcare Patient Care and Clinical Informatics.

Will talk about:
Applications and opportunities for wearable technology in physiological monitoring

Session:
Luncheon lecture

Emilio Bizzi, M.D., Ph.D.

Institute Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Will talk about:
Modularity for Motor Coordination

Session:
Keynote lecture

Subra Suresh Ph.D.

Director, National Science Foundation

Will talk about:
Study of Human Diseases Across Disciplinary Boundaries

Session:
Keynote lecture

Dirk Beernaert

Head of Unit G1 – Nano-electronics and Photonics in the European Commission – Directorate General for Information Society and Media.

Will talk about:
A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth:How research and innovation in ICT, miniaturisation and micro-nano-bio systems meet the future challenges for health and well being

Session:
Keynote lecture

Xian-En Zhang, Ph.D.

Director General, Basic Research Department, Ministry of Science & Technology, China

Will talk about:
TBA

Session:
Keynote lecture

John A. Parrish, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer, Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology

Will talk about:
The Power of Collaboration to Improve Medicine

Session:
Keynote lecture

Hugh Herr Ph.D.

Associate Professor, MIT’s Program of Media Arts and Sciences & Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Will talk about:
The Importance of Neuromechanical Limb Models in the Design of Leg Prostheses and Orthoses

Session:
Keynote lecture