SERIOUS WONDER | FutureMed 2020: The Future of Health

a la rencontre de la colonie de phoques veau marin link Serious Wonder has the opportunity to attend and cover FutureMed2020 this year. As describe on the site: FutureMed “educates, informs and prepares physicians, innovators, inventors, investors and senior healthcare executives to understand and recognize the opportunities and disruptive influences of exponentially growing technologies within medicine and healthcare, and to understand how many rapidly developing and converging fields affect the future of wellness, prevention, clinical practice and the biomedical industry”.

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cms site de rencontre open source This event and the people involved are on a trajectory to build a future of health and abundance. I will be live tweeting and blogging during the 3 day conference. You can follow on Twitter @SeriousWonder, and if you have any questions or comments you would like me to relay, please feel free to email me at Kevin@SeriousWonder.com

rencontre haut jura here Tweets about “#FutureMed”

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For a more indepth 15 Minute look at FutureMed, check out the video below!

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The FutureMed Faculty (http://FutureMed2020.com/faculty) includes:

Dr. Eric Topol, Chief Academic Officer, Cardiologist and Geneticist at Scripps Health, will keynote the opening day and help frame examples and opportunities for disruption in healthcare.

Singularity University Co-Founders Dr. Peter H. Diamandis MD, X PRIZE Foundation Chairman, and Ray Kurzweil, futurist, inventor, author and Google’s Director of Engineering, will introduce the power and potential of exponential technologies. Core faculty from Singularity University will dive into the trajectories and disruptive potential of artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing and IT.

Dr. George Church, PhD, Harvard Professor of Genetics, Author David Ewing Duncan, andEsther Dyson, board member of 23andMe will help explore the future of personal genomics and its impact in the clinic and beyond.

Data and informatics are playing an increasingly critical role as will be explored by Dr. John Mattison MD, CMIO of Kaiser Permanente. Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media, will chair a session on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in healthcare, joined by Dr. Marty Kohn MD, chief medical technologist behind IBM Watson, and Ari Caroline PhD, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Quantitative Analysis at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Larry Smarr PhD, UCSD Professor and head of CaliT, and an astrophysicist by training, will share his experience in self-quantification and leveraging his own data to improve his healthcare — focusing on the role of the empowered and engaged patient.

Dr. Dean Ornish MD, a leading figure in preventative medicine, will share his work on reversing chronic disease, and discuss the impact of lifestyle and diet on the impact of cancer.

The Future of Intervention, being enabled by new tools, will be discussed by Dr. Catherine Mohr MD director of research for Intuitive Surgical, Dr. Peter Fitzgerald MD PhD of Stanford University School, of Medicine, and Dr. Richard Satava MD of the University of Washington — sharing cutting edge and future perspectives on therapeutics.

The practice of connected medicine is evolving through technology and will be introduced by Dr. Bill Crounse MD from Microsoft, and Dr. Tracy Galudet MD, Office of Patient Centered Care Veterans Administration. In the Global Health arena, Dr. Eric Rassmussen MD, Infinitum Humanitarian Systems, and Lisa Kennedy from GE Healthymagination will discuss technologies’ role in improving global health in the early detection and prevention of pandemic disease.

The future of biopharma is ripe for disruption. Winner of the 2013 Google Science Fair, 17 year-old Eric Chen, will share his novel approach to drug discovery. Jamie Heywood, founder and chair of PatientsLikeMe will further delve into the emerging role of the participatory, patient derived, crowd-sourced clinical trials.

Lucien Engelen, Director of the Radboud Reshape & Innovation Center will bring a European perspective on the future of healthcare. Dr. Robert Hariri MD PhD and CEO, Celgene Therapeudics will highlight developments in Regenerative Medicine.

Demonstrations including the role of Google Glass and 3D printing in healthcare, workshops and discussions and more than 30 companies sharing their innovations, will be augmented with special guest, singer-songwriter Eoin Harrington.

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