Agenda

May 10th (Thursday)

7:30AM Breakfast
8:00-10:45AM SESSION 1: Infant and Children CHAIR: Brian Anthony (MIT)
8:00AM

8:05AM

Charles G. Sodini (MIT) “Introduction”

Anantha Chandrakasan (Department Head, EECS, MIT) “Welcome”

8:15AM John Sheets, (Sr. Vice President, Corporate Research, Boston Scientific) “Clinical, Commercial, and Changing Demands in the New Economy”
9:00AM Adre du Plessis (Children’s National Medical Center) “Fetal and Transitional Medicine: The Next Great Frontier”
9:30AM Robert Tasker (Children’s Hospital Boston) “Homeostasis and Acute Physiology in Neurocritical Care”
10:00AM Hari Eswaran (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) “Non-Invasive Assessment of Fetal Cardiac and Neurological Maturation Using Magnetoencephalography”
10:30AM BREAK
10:45AM -12:15PM SESSION 2: Pain CHAIR: Thomas Heldt (MIT)
10:45AM Patrick Purdon (MGH) “Neural Mechanisms of General Anesthesia”
11:15AM Eric Panken (Medtronic) “RestoreSensor – The Development of New Therapy Capabilities for Spinal Cord Stimulation”
11:45AM Polina Anikeeva (MIT) “Designing New Generation of Neuroprosthetics”
12:15PM LUNCH
1:30-3:30PM SESSION 3: Pharma / MedicationCHAIR: Joel Voldman (MIT)
1:30PM Vijay Modur (Novartis) “Potential Opportunities for Electronic Devices in Drug Development”
2:00PM Avi Schroeder (MIT) “Ultrasonic Devices for Targeted Drug Delivery”
2:30PM Rick Weitzel (University of Michigan) & Grant Kruger (University of Michigan) “Point-of-Care Ultrasound Devices: Increased Performance, Lower Cost, Operator Independence, and Implications for Diagnosis and Research”
3:00PM Bryan McLaughlin (Draper Labs) “Three Dimensional Micro-Packaging With High Density Hermetic Feedthroughs for Implantable Applications”
3:30PM BREAK
3:45PM  Poster Overview Presentations
4:00-5:30PM Poster Session
6:00-7:00PM Reception
7:00PM Dinner with Speaker Allan Goroll (Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Partners/MGH) “Primary Care: The New Target for Technologic Innovation in Medical Care”

May 11th (Friday)

7:45AM Breakfast
8:15-10:30AM SESSION 4: Global / International PerspectivesCHAIR: Charles Sodini (MIT)
8:15AM Mike Harsh (Vice President & CTO, GE Healthcare) “Reverse Healthcare Innovation and ‘In Country for Country’ Product Development”
9:00AM Igor Pivovarov (Hemacore) “Overview of Russian Ecosystem for Medical Device Development Companies on Example of Startup Company Hemacore”
9:30AM Jessica Harberer (Partners) “The Labor-Band: Using Wireless Monitoring to Decrease Maternal-Newborn Morbidity in Developing Settings”
10:00AM  BREAK
10:15AM-12:15PM SESSION 5: General Practices FutureCHAIR: Tom O’Dwyer (Analog Devices)
10:15AM Ada Poon (Stanford) “Emerging Applications of Wireless in Biomedicine”
10:45AM Nikolay Vasilyev (Children’s Hospital Boston) “Devices and Imaging for Beating-Heart Intracardiac Surgery”
11:15AM Ben Calhoun (UVA) “A Batteryless 19µW Body Sensor Node System-on-Chip for ExG”
12:15-1:00PM Box Lunch
Adjourn

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