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TEDMED 2013 PROGRAM: April 16-19, 2013

Sessions 4-8 will be broadcast to the Dirksen Conference Room, SIU Medical Library, 801 N. Rutledge, 4th floor, Springfield, IL. All other sessions will be available online only.

For more information, contact reference@siumed.edu or go to http://www.tedmed.com/.

Tuesday, April 16 – 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Session 1: Seeing With a Broader Lens

“Can cool jazz raise your temperature?”
Afro Blue
Howard University’s premiere vocal jazz ensemble

“What is the U.S. health disadvantage?”
Harvey Fineberg
President, Institute of Medicine

“To get to the future, can we reinvent the past?”
Kishi Bashi
Singer-Songwriter, Composer and Performing Artist

“When should science shoot for the moon?”
Rafael Yuste
Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

“Instead of treating disease can we engineer health?”
Danny Hillis
Inventor, Scientist, Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Author

“What happens when patients become leaders on the health team?”
America Bracho
CEO and President, Latino Health Access

“How can design principles lead to more discovery and better treatment?”
John Maeda
President, Rhode Island School of Design

Wednesday, April 17 – 7:30 – 9:15 a.m.

Session 2 :   How Can Big Data Become Real Wisdom?

“Can patient data have a second life?”
Amy Abernethy, M.D.
Director, Center for Learning Health Care, Duke Clinical Research Institute

“Can you coordinate the dance of your body’s 100 trillion microorganisms?”
Larry Smarr
Professor, UCSD, Director Calit2

“How can we improve health care if doctors don’t know if they do any good?”
Michael E. Porter
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School

“What happens when each patient becomes their own “universe” of unique medical data?”
Deborah Estrin
Professor, Computer Science, Cornell Tech, NYC professor, Public Health,
Weill Cornell Medical College Co-founder, Open mHealth

“How about a musical melody?”
Jill Sobule
Songstress

“Can you gimme a beat?”
Sekou Andrews
Internationally acclaimed Spoken Word Artist, Playwright, Actor, Poet

Wednesday, April 17 – 10:30 a.m. – Noon

Session 3:  Translating the Untranslatable

“How do I count my blessings every day?”
Richard Simmons
Fitness personality and actor

“When is a Lose-Lose a Win-Win?”
Mick Cornett
Mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

“Does anyone in healthcare want to be understood?”
Sally Okun
VP Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety, PatientsLikeMe

“What is cancer?”
David Agus
Professor of Medicine and Engineering, University of Southern California
Author, “The End of Illness”

Wednesday, April 17 – 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. (Dirksen Conference Room, 801-4)

Session 4:   Shifting the Patterns of Power

“What’s the new way to ask big questions in science?”
Max Little
Wellcome Trust/MIT Fellow, MIT Media Lab
Human Dynamics Group Visiting Research Associate,
Oxford Complete Systems

“Why do we use mice to study human diseases?”
H. Shaw Warren
Physician and Pediatrician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

“What’s the human factor that lets innovation succeed?”
Pritpal S. Tamber
Founder, Optimising Clinical Knowledge Ltd

“For Profit & Non-Profits:  Can this marriage be saved?”
Jonathan Bush
Co-Founder, President, Chairman and CEO, athenahealth

“Are we ready for a Declaration of Food Independence?”
Ashley Atkinson
Co-Director, Keep Growing Detroit

“Is the “obesity crisis” just a disguise for a deeper problem?
Peter Attia
Founder and President, Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI)

Wednesday, April 17 – 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. (Dirksen Conference Room, 801-4)

Session 5:  What Happens When We Mix Up The Models?

“Can an “orchestra” of scientists find the hidden music in your DNA?”
Mike Pazin
Program Director, Functional Genomics, Division of Genome Sciences,
National Human Genome Research Institute

“What if we treated violence like a contagious disease?”
Gary Slutkin, M.D.
Founder and Executive Director of Cure Violence
Professor, Epidemiology and International Health, University of Illinois at
Chicago School of Public Health

“Are zombie doctors taking over America?”
Zubin Damania
M.D., Director of Healthcare Development, Downtown Project Las Vegas

“How do we interpret that “Fascinating Rhythm?”
The Manzari Brothers
Tap Dancers/Performers

“If truth is beauty, can art be science?”
David Odde & Black Label Movement
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Biomedical
Engineering, University of Minnesota | Dance Theatre

“Can science take the next leap?”
Francis S. Collins
Director of the National Institutes of Health

Thursday, April 18 – 10:00 – 11:45 a.m. (Dirksen Conference Room, 801-4)

Session 6:  Going Farther while Staying Closer

“What is the sound of E. Pluribus Unum?”
Washington Conservatory of Music
Piano faculty

“Attention stressed-out docs:  Can the consumer be the
“cavalry” that rescues you?”
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Chancellor Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor
University of California, San Francisco

“Who is the real medical expert?”
Roni Zeiger
CEO, Smart Patients

“With open access, who translates medical research?”
Elizabeth Marincola
President, Society for Science and the Public
Publisher, Science News

“What does a $100 million public health data revolution look like?
Christopher J.L. Murray
Institute Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

“Ending Pandemics:  How close are we today?”
Larry Brilliant
President & CEO, Skoll Global Threats Fund

Thursday, April 18 – 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. (Dirksen Conference Room, 801-4)

Session 7:  Thinking Outside the (Check) Box

“How do we move from health data to health dialog?”
Ryan Panchadsaram
Senior Advisor at the White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy

“How does an illness become an identity?”
Andrew Solomon
Writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts;
Winner of the National Book Award

“Can a poet and a loving community make cancer a thing of beauty?”
Salvatore Iaconesi
Interaction Designer, Robotic Engineer, Artist and Hacker

“When is a wheelchair an ultra-light submarine?”
Sue Austin
Artist, Freewheeling, ‘Creating the Spectacle!’

“Could a citizen scientist win a Nobel Prize?”
Jessica Richman
Co-Founder, uBiome

“The Big Bang in Medicine and Engineering:  will the knowledge explosion
actually hurt innovation across disciplines?”
Elazer Edelman
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor, Health Sciences and Technology,
MIT Professor and Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Harvard-MIT
Biomedical Engineering Center, Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Thursday, April 18 -- 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. (Dirksen Conference Room, 801-4)

Session 8:  Welcoming Death Into Life

“When death is the enemy, what is victory?”
Amanda Bennett
Executive Editor, Bloomberg News Author, ‘The Cost of Hope’

“What happens when Death is what’s for dinner?”
Michael Hebb
Food Provocateur and Founder, One Pot

“How does mortality inspire creativity?”
Charity Tillemann-Dick
Singer

“Why couldn’t we just have given her intravenous oxygen?”
John Kheir, M.D.
Staff Physician and Scientist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Department of
Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School

“What happens when we welcome death in defining life?”
Kelli Swazey
Anthropologist

Friday, April 19 – 7:15 – 9:00 a.m.

Session 9:  Hiding in Plain Sight

“How do we look at the future of health with both eyes?”
Ramesh Raskar
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

“How do I compute the Body Electric?”
Mariano Vazquez
Researcher, Barcelona Computing Center

“When is “safe dosing” a dangerous prescription?”
Steve Gullans
Managing Director, Excel Venture Management

“How do we make prevention a $1 trillion business?”
Laura Deming
Partner, The Longevity Fund

“How can every clinical visit be used to advance medical science?”
Isaac Kohane
Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences Technology,
Harvard Medical School

Friday, April 19 – 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Session 10:  Coming Together

“How does it end?”
Richard Payne
Esther Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity at
Duke Divinity School, Duke University

“What is the best medicine?”
Erin Barker
Senior Producer, The Story Collider
and
Ben Lillie
Co-Founder and Director, The Story Collider

“How did volunteers save more than 40,000 lives in 3 minutes (each) last year?”
Eli Beer
Founder and President, United Hatzalah

“What happens now…that I can read your brainwaves?”
Raghava KK
Multidisciplinary Contemporary Artist

“How can helping you help me?”
Victor Wang
Founder and CEO, GeriJoy Inc.