Speakers by Session
OUR SPEAKERS BY SESSION These thought leaders from all sectors of society will come together to celebrate innovation, imagination, inspiration and their passion for a better future in health and medicine. Meet them all at TEDMED 2013.
30090_7 SESSION Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:00pm – 10:00pm 1
SESSION 1 TOPIC: Seeing with a Broader Lens
KISHI BASHI HARVEY FINEBERG Singer-songwriter, composer President, Institute of Medicine and performing artist ““Whatis the U.S. health ““To get to the future, can disadvantage?” we reinvent the past?”
JOHN MAEDA RAFAEL YUSTE President, Rhode Island School Professor of Biological Sciences, of Design (RISD) Columbia University ““Howcan design principles ““Whenshould science shoot lead to more discovery and for the moon?” better treatment?”
DANNY HILLIS REGINA BENJAMIN Inventor, Scientist, Engineer, Surgeon General of the United States Entrepreneur, and Author ““Canjoy be the key that ““What'sthe 21st century unlocks the puzzle?” version of prevention?”
AMERICA BRACHO AFRO BLUE Director, Latino Health Acces Howard University’s premier vocal jazz ensemble ““Whathappens when patients become leaders ““Cancool jazz raise your on the health team?” temperature?” SESSION Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:30am – 10:15am 2
SESSION 2 TOPIC: How Can Big Data Become Real Wisdom?
LARRY SMARR AMY ABERNETHY Professor, UCSD; Director, Calit2 M.D., Director, Center for Learning Health Care, Duke Clinical Research Institute ““Canyou coordinate the dance of your body’s 100 ““Canpatient data have trillion microorganisms?” a second life?”
DEBORAH ESTRIN SEKOU ANDREWS Professor of Computer Science, Internationally Acclaimed Spoken Word Cornell Tech, NYC; Professor of Public Artist, Playwright, Actor, Poet Health, Weill Cornell Medical College; Co-founder, Open mHealth ““Whathappens when the data of health is inspired by ““Whathappens when each the poetry of care?” patient becomes their own ‘universe’ of unique medical data?”
JILL SOBULE MICHAEL E. PORTER Songstress Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School ““Howabout a musical melody?” ““Howcan we improve health care if doctors don't know if they do any good?” SESSION Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:30am – 1:00pm 3
SESSION 3 TOPIC: Translating the Untranslatable
MICK CORNETT SALLY OKUN Mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma VP Advocacy, Policy & Patient Safety, PatientsLikeMe ““Whenis a Lose-Lose a Win-Win?” ““Doesanyone in healthcare want to be understood?”
ZUBIN DAMANIA REGINA BENJAMIN Surgeon General of the United States M.D., Director of Healthcare Development, Downtown Project Las Vegas ““Canjoy be the key that unlocks the puzzle?” ““Are zombie doctors taking over America?”
DAVID AGUS RICHARD SIMMONS M.D., Professor of Medicine and Fitness Personality and Actor Engineering, University of Southern California. Author, The End of Illness ““Howdo I count my blessings everyday?” ““Whatis cancer?” SESSION Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:30pm – 4:15pm 4
SESSION 4 TOPIC: Shifting the Patterns of Power
ASHLEY ATKINSON PRITPAL S TAMBER Co-Director, The Growing of Detroit Founder, Optimising Clinical Knowledge Ltd ““Are we ready for a Declaration of Food ““What'sthe human factor that Interdependence?” lets innovation succeed?”
MAX LITTLE JONATHAN BUSH Wellcome Trust/MIT Fellow and Assistant Co-Founder, President, Chairman Professor, Aston University; Visiting and CEO, athenahealth Assistant Professor, MIT ““ForProfit & Non-Profits: ““What'sthe new way to ask Can this marriage be big questions in science?” saved?”
PETER ATTIA H. SHAW WARREN Founder and President, Nutrition Physician and Pediatrician, Science Initiative (NuSI) Massachusetts General Hospital. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, ““Isthe ‘obesity’ crisis just Harvard Medical School a disguise for a deeper ““Whydo we use mice to problem?” study human diseases?” SESSION Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:30pm – 7:30pm 5
SESSION 5 TOPIC: What Happens When We Mix Up the Models?
FRANCIS COLLINS GARY SLUTKIN Director of the National Institutes M.D., Founder and Executive Director of Health of Cure Violence Professor, Epidemiology and International Health, University of ““Canscience take the Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health next leap?” ““Whatif we treated violence like a contagious disease?”
MIKE PAZIN DAVID ODDE AND BLACK Program Director, Functional Genomics, LABEL MOVEMENT Division of Genome Sciences, National Professor and Director of Undergraduate Human Genome Research Institute Studies, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota / Dance ““Canan “orchestra” of Theatre scientists find the hidden music in your DNA?” ““Iftruth is beauty, can art be science?”
MANZARI BROTHERS ZUBIN DAMANIA Tap Dancers / Performers M.D., Director of Healthcare Development, Downtown Project Las Vegas ““Howdo we interpret that ‘Fascinating Rhythm?’” ““Are zombie doctors taking over America?” SPECIALSESSION INNOVATION Thursday, April 18, 2013 IN FOCUS 8:30am – 10:30am
SPECIAL MORNINg PROgRAM:
DISCUSSION 1: 8:30am – 9:30am Shifting the Curve from Start to Scale to Exit: Lessons from the Trajectory of Innovation
MODERATOR PARTICIPANTS
JUAN GIOVANNI NINA GRANT L. MICHAEL ENRIQUEZ COLELLA NASHIF VERSTANDIG WEINTRAUB
DISCUSSION 2: 9:30am – 10:30am Every Company is a Healthcare Company: Innovating from the Outside In
MODERATOR PARTICIPANTS
JEFF MARLEECE JENNIFER GEETA RICK DEGRAFF BARBER KURKOSKI NAYYAR VALENCIA SESSION Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:00am – 1:00pm 6
SESSION 6 TOPIC: Going Farther While Staying Closer
WASHINGTON LARRY BRILLIANT CONSERVATORY President and CEO, Skoll Global Pianists Threats Fund ““Whatis the sound of ““EndingPandemics: E. Pluribus Unum?” How close are we today?”
SUSAN DESMOND- RAMESH RASKAR HELLMANN Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab Chancellor Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor, University ““Howdo we look at the future of California, San Francisco of health with both eyes?” ““Attentionstressed out docs: Can the consumer be the ‘cavalry’ that rescues you?”
RONI ZEIGER CHRISTOPHER MURRAY CEO, Smart Patients Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) ““Whois the real medical expert?” ““Whatdoes a $100 million public health data revolution look like?” SESSION Thursday, April 18, 2013 2:30pm – 4:15pm 7
SESSION 7 TOPIC: Thinking Outside the (Check) Box
SUE AUSTIN RYAN PANCHADSARAM Artist, Freewheeling Senior Advisor The White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy ““Whenis a wheelchair an ultra-light submarine?” ““Howdo we move from health data to health dialog?”
JESSICA RICHMAN SALVATORE IACONESI Co-Founder, uBiome Interaction Designer, Robotic Engineer, Artist & Hacker ““Coulda citizen scientist win a Nobel Prize?” ““Cana poet and a loving community make cancer a thing of beauty?”
ELAZER EDELMAN ANDREW SOLOMON Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Writer and lecturer on psychology, Professor, Health Sciences and politics, and the arts; Winner of the Technology, MIT Professor of Medicine, National Book Award Harvard Medical School Director, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering ““Howdoes an illness become Center Senior Physician, Brigham and an identity?” Women’s Hospital ““TheBig Bang in Medicine and Engineering—will the knowledge explosion actually hurt innovation across disciplines?” SESSION Thursday, April 18, 2013 5:30pm – 7:30pm 8
SESSION 8 TOPIC: Welcoming Death Into Life
CHARITY AMANDA BENNETT TILLEMANN-DICK Executive Editor, Bloomberg News Singer Author, The Cost of Hope ““Howdoes mortality inspire ““Whendeath is the enemy, creativity?” what is victory?”
JOHN KHEIR KELLI SWAZEY M.D., Staff Physician and Scientist, Anthropologist Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Department of Cardiology, Boston ““Whathappens when we Children's Hospital Harvard Medical welcome death in defining School life?” ““Whycouldn't we just have given her intravenous oxygen?”
MICHAEL HEBB Food Provocateur and Founder, One Pot ““Whathappens when death is what's for dinner?” SESSION Friday, April 19, 2013 8:15am – 10:00am 9
SESSION 9 TOPIC: Hiding in Plain Sight
MARIANO VÁZQUEZ ISAAC KOHANE Researcher, Barcelona Computing Professor of Pediatrics and Health Center Sciences Technology, Harvard Medical School ““Howdo I compute the body electric?” ““Howcan every clinical visit be used to advance medical science?”
STEVE GULLANS LAURA DEMING Ph.D., Managing Director, Excel Venture Partner, The Longevity Fund Management ““Howcan science and ““Whenis ‘safe dosing’ business team up for a dangerous prescription?” the long (health) haul?”
ELIZABETH MARINCOLA President, Society for Science & the Public; Publisher, Science News ““What happens when science, money, and freedom of information collide?” SESSION Friday, April 19, 2013 11:00am – 12:30pm 10
SESSION 10 TOPIC: Coming Together
ELI BEER BEN LILLIE Founder and President, Co-Founder and Director, United Hatzalah The Story Collider ““Howdid volunteers save ““Whatis the best medicine?” more than 40,000 lives in 3 minutes (each) last year?”
VICTOR WANG ERIN BARKER Founder and CEO, GeriJoy Inc. Senior Producer, Story Collider ““Howcan helping you ““Whatis the best medicine?” help me?”
RAGHAVA KK RICHARD PAYNE Multidisciplinary Contemporary Artist Esther Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity, Duke University ““Whathappens now…that ““Howdoes it end?” I can read your brainwaves?”