CDC Special Edition of Future of Health Technology SummitSM 2007
February 22, 2007
CDC Roybal, Blg 19, Room 206, Auditorium A
Atlanta, Georgia
Sponsored by:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Special Edition
National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM)
National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI)
Organized by the Future of Health Technology Institute
Printable PDF version of the current program: 
Updated: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Overview
Cell phone-based medical assistants. Remote presence. Artificial healing cats. They all may sound futuristic, even exotic. But these devices are part of the here and now in the evolving landscape of health technology. The brightest minds in this subject area are brought together on February 22, 2007 at CDC’s Roybal campus to share insights and the latest discoveries in E-Health in a special day-long summit, open to all of CDC.
Inspiration
8:00a - 8:45a Welcoming Remarks 
Jay Bernhardt, PhD, MPH 
Director, National Center for Health Marketing, CDC
Robert Martin, DrPH, MPH
Acting Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics, CDC
   
8:45a - 9:00a Global Trends and Perspectives
Hear about the innovative and rapidly-changing landscape of health technology.
Renata Bushko,  MS
Director, Future of Health Technology Institute, Hopkinton, MA
   
9:00a - 9:30a Lifestyle as Diagnosis: Second Skin and Body Dashboard
Discover the value and practical applications of continuous body monitoring via new wireless devices.
Astro Teller, PhD
Chairman, Chief Research and Strategy Officer 
BodyMedia, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
   
9:30a - 10:00a Computer Sensing of Human Emotion: Emotion Technology in Addiction, Anxiety, and Autism, and that is just the A's
Learn about new technologies for sensing and responding to people's emotion, including a live demonstration of a new wearable social-emotional recognition system for helping people with autism.
Rosalind W. Picard, ScD, FIEEE
Author, Affective Computing
Director, Affective Computing Research
Co-director, Things That Think Consortium
MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
   
10:00a - 10:30a Virtual Nurse and Portable Exercise Assistant 
See how wearable computers and hospital bedside kiosks are promoting exercise and educating patients.
Timothy Bickmore, PhD
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
     
10:30a - 10:45a Break
     
10:45 - 11:30 The New Frontiers: Designing Medical Experience
Understand how technology and design may create better experiences for the medical consumer.
Gianfranco Zaccai, FIDSA/ADI
President, CEO 
Continuum, Inc., Boston, MA and Milan, Italy
    
11:30a - 12:30p Lunch
   
Incubation
12:30p - 1:00p Intelligent Medical Robotics: A Systems-level View
Explore the historical underpinnings and future potential for robotics and machine intelligence.
Sail Patel, MD
Diagnostic Radiology
The Mallinckrodt Institute
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
    
1:00p - 1:30p Remote Presence: Clinical Applications for Remote Presence Technology
Learn about Remote Presence, a new modality for physician-patient interaction that allows the physician to be “virtually” present to manage the care of hospitalized patients.
Yulun Wang, PhD
President, Founder
InTouch Health, Santa Barbara, CA
   
1:30p - 2:00p Extended eHealth: Artificial Pets for Better Health, Faster Rehabilitation and Prevention
Understand the role of interactive technology in psychosocial rehabilitation.
Alex Libin, PhD
Senior Researcher, Neuroscience Research Center
National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, D.C.
    
2:00p - 2:45p Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What is the Best Implant of Them All?
See the results of new implant experimentation and explore technical realities and moral issues.
Kevin Warwick, PhD
Author, In the Mind of the Machine
Cybernetics Department
University of Reading, Great Britain
    
2:45p - 3:00p Break
   
Insight
3:00p - 3:45p The Emotion Machine
Delve into the worlds of Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind.
Marvin Minsky, PhD
Author, The Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine
Donner Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    
3:45 - 4:00 Reflections, Synthesis and Next Steps
Take the opportunity to ask a panel of the day’s presenters your questions about the future of health technology.
Moderated by:
Janice Nall, MBA
Acting Director, Division of E-Health Marketing, NCHM, CDC
    
4:00 Adjourn
   
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