Speakers by Session
OUR SPEAKERS BY SESSION These thought leaders from all sectors of society will come together to celebrate innovation, imagination, and inspiration and their passion for a better future in health and medicine. Meet them all at TEDMED 2013.
30090_5 SESSION Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:00pm – 10:00pm 1
SESSION 1 TOPIC: Seeing with a Broader Lens
KISHI BASHI AMERICA BRACHO Singer-songwriter, composer and Director, Latino Health Acces performing artist ““Whathappens when ““To get to the future, can patients become leaders we reinvent the past?” on the health team?”
JOHN MAEDA HARVEY FINEBERG President, Rhode Island School President, Institute of Medicine of Design (RISD) ““Whatis the U.S. health ““Howcan design principles disadvantage?” lead to more discovery and better treatment?”
DANNY HILLIS RAFAEL YUSTE Inventor, Scientist, Engineer, Professor of Biological Sciences, Entrepreneur, and Author Columbia University ““Insteadof treating disease ““Whenshould science shoot can we engineer health?” for the moon?”
REGINA BENJAMIN AFRO BLUE Surgeon General of the United States Howard University's premier vocal jazz ensemble ““Canjoy be the key that unlocks the puzzle?” ““Cancool jazz raise your temperature?” SESSION Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:30am – 10:15am 2
SESSION 2 TOPIC: How Can Big Data Become Real Wisdom?
JILL SOBULE SEKOU ANDREWS Songstress Internationally Acclaimed Spoken Word Artist, Playwright, Actor, Poet ““Howabout a musical melody?” Can you gimme a beat?”
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 MICHAEL E. PORTER Professor of Computer Science, Bishop William Lawrence University Cornell Tech, NYC; Professor of Public Professor, Harvard Business School Health, Weill Cornell Medical College; Co-founder, Open mHealth ““Howcan we improve health care if doctors don't know ““Whathappens when each if they do any good? ” patient becomes their own ‘universe’ of unique medical data?” SESSION Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:30am – 1:00pm 3
SESSION 3 TOPIC: Translating the Untranslatable
ZUBIN DAMANIA DAVID AGUS M.D., Director of Healthcare M.D., Professor of Medicine and Development, Downtown Project Engineering, University of Southern Las Vegas California Author, The End of Illness ““Are zombie doctors taking ““Whatis cancer?” over America?”
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?”
JILL SOBULE RICHARD SIMMONS Songstress Fitness Personality and Actor ““Howabout a musical ““Howdo I count my blessings melody?” everyday?” SESSION Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:30pm – 4:00pm 4
SESSION 4 TOPIC: Shifting the Patterns of Power
ASHLEY ATKINSON H. SHAW WARREN Co-Director, The Growing of Detroit Physician and Pediatrician, Massachusetts General Hospital ““Are we ready for a Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Declaration of Food Harvard Medical School Interdependence?” ““Whydo we use mice to study human diseases?”
PRITPAL S TAMBER MAX LITTLE Founder, Optimising Clinical Wellcome Trust/MIT Fellow, MIT Media Knowledge Ltd Lab Human Dynamics Group Visiting Senior Research Associate, Oxford ““What'sthe human factor that Complete Systems lets innovation succeed?” ““What'sthe new way to ask big questions in science?”
JONATHAN BUSH Co-Founder, President, Chairman and CEO, athenahealth ““ForProfit & Non-Profits: Can this marriage be saved?” 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 ““Whendoes it make sense Theatre to compare genomic apples and oranges?” ““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?’” ““Canwe reshape your perceptions without saying a word?” SESSION SPECIAL Thursday, April 18, 2013 MORNING 8:30am – 10:30am PROGRAM
SPECIAL MORNINg PROgRAM:
DISCUSSION 1: Shifting the Curve from Start to Scale to Exit Lessons from the Trajectory of Innovation
MODERATOR PARTICIPANTS
JUAN GIOVANNI NINA GRANT L. MARK ENRIQUEZ COLELLA NASHIF VERSTANDIG WEINTRAUB
DISCUSSION 2: Every Company is a Healthcare Company Innovating from the Outside In
MODERATOR PARTICIPANTS
JEFF MARLEECE JENNIFER GEETA RICK DEGRAFF BARBER KURKOSKI NAYAR VALENCIA SESSION Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:00am – 12:45pm 6
SESSION 6 TOPIC: Going Farther While Staying Closer
WASHINGTON ELIZABETH MARINCOLA CONSERVATORY President, Society for Science & the Pianists Public; Publisher, Science News ““Whatis the sound of ““Withopen access, who E. Pluribus Unum?” translates medical research?”
SUSAN DESMOND- CHRISTOPHER MURRAY HELLMANN Director, Institute for Health Metrics Chancellor Arthur and Toni Rembe and Evaluation (IHME) Rock Distinguished Professor University What does $100 million of California, San Francisco public health data revolution ““Attentionstressed out docs: look like?” Can the consumer be the ‘cavalry’ that rescues you?”
RONI ZEIGER LARRY BRILLIANT CEO, Smart Patients President and CEO, Skoll Global Threats Fund ““Whois the real medical expert?” ““What'sthe unbelievably good news in global health?” 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 STEVE GULLANS Researcher, Barcelona Computing Ph.D., Managing Director, Excel Venture Center Management ““Howdo I compute the body ““Whenis ‘safe dosing’ electric?” a dangerous prescription?”
RAMESH RASKAR LAURA DEMING Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab Partner, The Longevity Fund ““Howdo we look at the future ““Howcan science and of health with both eyes?” business team up for the long (health) haul?”
ISAAC KOHANE ELI BEER Professor of Pediatrics and Health Founder and President, Sciences Technology, Harvard United Hatzalah Medical School ““Howdid volunteers save ““Howcan every clinical visit more than 40,000 lives in be used to advance medical 3 minutes (each) last year?” science?” SESSION Friday, April 19, 2013 11:00am – 12:30pm 10
SESSION TOPIC: Coming Together
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 I can read your brainwaves?” ““Howdoes it end?”
BEN LILLIE Co-Founder and Director, The Story Collider ““Whatis the best medicine?”