Future of Health Technology Summit 2008 - Program - Schedule
September 22 - 23, 2008
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty Club
Updated: 09/18/2008
Part I: Inspiration - Monday 9/22/2008 - Morning
7:30 - 8:30  Introductions and Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 Opening - Future of Health Technology Summit 2008
Renata Bushko
Director, Future of Health Technology Institute
  and
  Opening Remarks by Professor Robert Greenes , MD, Ph.D.
Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Arizona State University
8:45 - 9:30 KEYNOTE I: 
Europe: Personal Health Systems and Ambient Assisted Living Technology in Europe - European R&D Programme
Stephan Kiefer
Head of Group Telemedicine / Home Care
Fraunhofer-Institut Biomedizinische 
Technik (IBMT)
  Response by Charles Safran, M.D.
Chief Division of Clinical Computing BIDMC
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Scientist, National Center for Public Health Informatics, CDC, US
9:30 - 10:00 United States: Cyberinfrastructure for Health
Bradford W. Hesse, Ph.D.
Chief, Health Comm & Informatics Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute, US
  Response by Professor Klaus-Peter Adlassnig
Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems Head, Medical University of Vienna, EC
  Response by Richard Spivack, Ph.D. 
Technology Innovation Program, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
US Department of Commerce
10:00 - 10:30 Africa: Strategies for Positive Outcomes in Health in Africa: Can an Information Technology Intervention Make a Difference? 
Julia Royall
Chief, International Programs
National Library of Medicine
  Response by M. Chris Gibbons, MD, MPH
Associate Director,
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute Director
Center for Community HEALTH
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
  Response by Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities
   
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Emotions Management
Chair: Stephan Wiet, Ph.D. 
Director - Consumer Sciences, 
McNeil Consumer Healthcare
  DEMONSTRATION #1:
Software and Hardware Sensors. Future of Management of Emotions: Example of Autism
Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D, FIEEE
Director of Affective Computing Research 
Co-Director Things That Think MIT Media Laboratory
  DEMONSTRATION #2:
The Sound of a Hug
Raffi Rembrand
Chief Technology Officer 
BioHug Technologies, Ltd.
11:45 - 12:15  Can Consumers Cure Healthcare?
David Gruber, M.D., MBA
Vice President, Corporate Development & New Ventures
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group of Companies
12:15 - 1:00 Networking Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 DEMONSTRATION #3:
Weight Loss Coach Sociable Robot
Cory Kidd, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Intuitive Automata
  Reflections by Caroline M. Apovian, M.D., F.A.C.P, F.A.C.N.,
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, 
Boston University School of Medicine
Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management
Boston Medical Center
1:30 - 2:00 KEYNOTE II
Maintaining Your Health from Within: Controls for Nanorobot Swarms in Fluids
Tad Hogg, Ph.D.
Member of Research Staff
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
2:00 - 2:30 DEMONSTRATION #4:
DuraHeart
Alexander Medvedev, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Development
Terumo Heart, Inc.
2:30 - 2:45  Break
Part II: Incubation - Monday 9/22/2008 - Afternoon
2:45 - 3:15 Future of Design in Health
Daniel Braunstein, Ph.D. 
Principal, Mechanical Engineering
Continuum, Inc.
3:15 - 3:45  Visual Search: Is it Really a Matter of Life and Death?
Professor Jeremy M. Wolfe
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Director: Visual Attention Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital
3:45 - 4:15 Insights into Immunology 
Mariana Castells, M.D.
Associate Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Training Program,
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Director, Desensitization Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital
4:15 - 4:45 Identity Online - Implications for Healthcare
Adriana Lukas
Founder, Big Blog Company & VRM Hub
part of the Project VRM (Vendor Relationship Management)
 at Harvard Berkman Center for Internet Study.
4:45 - 5:00 Break
Part III: Insight - Monday 9/22/2008 - Evening
5:00 - 5:30 Future of Diamonds in Health
Robert Linares Ph.D.
Founder, Apollo Diamond, Inc.
5:30 - 6:00 KEYNOTE III - NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Honest Signals
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Author of “Honest Signals”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
6:00 - 7:15 13th Annual Future of Health Technology Dinner
Remarks by Gianfranco Zaccai FIDSA
Designer, President & CEO
CONTINUUM
7:15 - 7:30 Future of Health Technology Award Ceremony
Renata Bushko, Director
Future of Health Technology Institute
Bryant Linares
President & CEO, Apollo Diamond Inc.
  2008 Future of Health Technology Award Honoree:
Alex (Sandy) Pentland, author of “Honest Signals”
7:30 - 9:00 Progress in Search for Longevity
Aubrey D.N.J de Grey, Ph.D.
Methuselah Foundation
author of "Ending Aging"
  Remarks by Professor Marvin Minsky
author of “The Emotion Machine”
  Continuation of discussion from 2007 on the space exploration in the context of extreme 
long life span and how that impacts the limitations of the light speed barrier.
Daniel T. Barry M.D., Ph.D.
NASA
Astronaut 
Tuesday 9/23/2008 - Morning - Strategy for the Future Self-organizing Session
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast, Introductions and Selforganization
8:30 - 9:00 KEYNOTE:
Technology Transfer to Health
Examples of Futuristic Technologies for Health
Dean E. Calcagni, M.D.
Director of Medical and Life Sciences Applications
QinetiQ North America, Technology Solutions Group
Foster-Miller, Inc.
 
  • Early Diagnostic Device of Traumatic Brain Injury
  • A Retinal Imaging Device for the Primary Care Physician
  • Biomedical Laboratory Automation
  • Next Generation Endoluminal Surgical Tool Development
  • Systems Integration of Biological Microarrays
  • Root Cause Analysis of Medical Accidents
  • Medical Applications of a Hand Held Spectrometer
  • Medical Asset Tracking
9:00 - 9:30 Relational Agents – State of the Art
Professor Timothy Bickmore, Ph.D.
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
9:30 - 10:15 DEMONSTRATION #4: 
Medical Assistant 
John Moore
MIT Media Lab
  Henry Lieberman
Principal Researcher
MIT Media Laboratory
  Remarks by Nancy Lewin, MBA
Director, Caregiver Initiative
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company
10:15 - 10:45 Update and Response by 
Professor Klaus-Peter Adlassnig
Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics
Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems
Head, Medical University of Vienna, EC
10:45 - 11:15 Update on Rapid, Array-based Detection of Proteins in Saliva with Arrayed Imaging Reflectometry: 
a Prototype "Point-of-care" Diagnostic System
Benjamin L. Miller, Ph.D.
Leader of the Pathogen Detection Consortium 
Center for Future Health
Professor, Dermatology Department
University of Rochester
11:15 - 11:30 Discussion
11:30 - 12:30 Working Lunch: Conclusions & Planning 
Future of Health Technology Summit 2009
12:30 - 1:00 Charles River Roses Ceremony (walk to the MIT Bridge)
Each rose symbolizes saved human life.
 
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