Connected Health: Empowering Care through Communications Technologies

September 18-19, 2006

Speakers and Panelists:

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Monday, September 18, 2006

Welcome:
Joseph Ternullo, CPA, JD, Associate Director, Center for Connected Health

Symposium Theme:
Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health

Keynote Remarks:
Peter L. Slavin, MD, President & CEO, Massachusetts General Hospital

Continua Health Alliance: Fostering Independence, Empowering People & Improving Care:
Moderator: Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Deepak Ayyagari, PhD, Principal Scientist, Sharp Laboratories
Jeff Perry, Director, New Ventures, Phillips Medical Systems
Michael Robkin, Principal Architect, Care Delivery, Kaiser Permanente
Dave Whitlinger, Director, Healthcare Standards & Interoperability, Intel

Recent Innovations in Payment Strategies:
Moderator: Barry G. Zallen, MD, CMO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Eric Handler, MD, MPH, Orange County Health Officer
Margaret Johnson, MSM, RN, CPHQ, Senior Director, Quality Improvement Services, MassPRO
Lisa S. Ponton, JD, Vice President, Human Resources, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dena Puskin, ScD, Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
Michael Robkin, Principal Architect, Care Delivery, Kaiser Permanente

Lost in the Jungle: The Technology-Empowered Health Care Consumer Meets the Medical/Industrial Complex
Moderator: Richard J. Zall, Esq, Partner, Proskauer Rose
Ashok B. Boghani, ScD, Director, Monitor Technologies/IMI, Monitor Group
Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA, Principal, Better Health Technologies, LLC
Stephen Rosenthal, President & COO, Montefiore Coordinated Care
Chris Ryan, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, SHPS

Telestroke Workshop:
Lee Schwamm, MD, FAHA, Director, Telestroke & Acte Stroke Services, Massachusetts General Hospital

Convenience, Quality and Patient Satisfaction - 21st Century Medicine Comes of Age:
Moderator: Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health 
Cindy Thompson, President and CEO, MedHelp
John C. Henderson, PhD, Professor, BU School Of Management
Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Michael Marquardt, President and CEO, MediGuide America
Gene R. Sacco, MBA, Associate Director of Business Practices, Wyeth

Ambulatory Practice of the Future: Patient as Expert and Disruptive Innovator:
Moderator: Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA, Exec Director, MGH Stoeckle Center
David Judge, MD, Medical Director, MGH Ambulatory Practice of the Future
Ronald Newbower, PhD, Co-founder, Strategic Director & Chief Tech. Officer, CIMIT
Win Hodges, Patient Representative for the Ambulatory Practice of the Future Ivo Stivoric, Chief Technology Officer, BodyMedia

The Continuum of Care - Perspectives from Home Care and Those on the Front Line:
Moderator: Deborah Randall, Esq, Partner, Arent Fox
Kathy Duckett, Clinical Programs Director, Partners HomeCare
Mike Cantor, MD, JD, Assistant Medical Director, Evercare of New England Penny Ford-Carleton, Program Director, Point of Care Technologies, CIMIT
Dorothy Noyes, Nurse Practitioner, MGH Cardiac Division/Heart Failure Center
Clifford Goldsmith, MD

Wireless Health Care - Unprecedented Opportunities, Unique Challenges:
Moderator: Herbert R. Williams, Partners HealthCare, IS Communications
Mireille Gotsis, Business Data Services, Cingular Wireless
Fraser Edward, Business Solutions Marketing, RIM
William Lalinde, Motohealth Manager, Motorola
Doug McClure, Corporate Manager, Center for Connected Health
Sean O'Leary, Vice President Sales, Good Technology
William Montgomery, Vice President Healthcare, Sprint

Energizing Entrepreneurs & the Market Place – Providing the Value Proposition Investment Capital:
Moderator: Trung Do, Executive Director, Partners Research Ventures
Will Mongan, Executive Director, Healthcare Innovation, AstraZeneca
Dennis Crowley, Director, Business Development, Tyco Healthcare
Peter Wakim, Director, Nokia
John Ryan, Senior Product Manager, Motiva, Philips

Mountains of Data to Meaningful Information: Leveraging Analytics in a Connected Health Environment:
Moderator: Butch McKinney, Archaea, Inc.
Carol Garner, MD, Faulkner Hospital
Peter Haigh, FHIMSS, Principal, Tele-Mobile Healthcare Solutions
Dorothy Van Ryzin, Archaea, Inc
Stephen Gatley, CEO, Sybermedica LTD
Natalie Dupree, NHANES, Centers for Disease Control

Changes in Doctoring:
Timothy Ferris, MD, MGH

Open Mike Session - "C" level round table:
Moderator: Joseph L. Ternullo, Associate Director, Center for Connected Health 
Charlie Baker, Jr., President and CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. 
James Roosevelt, Jr.,  President and CEO, Tufts Health Plan
Judy Flynn, Chief Clinical and Compliance Officer, Partners HomeCare
Sue Schade, Chief Information Officer, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Mike Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, NHS Connecting for Health

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Pharma Applications - Adherence/Clinical Trials:
Moderator: Una S. Ryan, PhD, CEO, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc
Terry McInnis, MD, MPH, Medical Director, GlaxoSmithKline
Kenneth D. Mandl, MD, MPH, Children's Hospital Boston
John Ryan, Senior Product Manager, Motiva, Philips
Douglas Johnston, Director of Research, New England Healthcare Institute

Initiating and Sustaining a Connected Health Program:
Moderator: Dena Puskin, ScD, Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
Barbara Johnston, Executive Director, CA Telemedicine & eHealth Center
Mitch Mitchell, McKesson/Relay Health
Paul H. Keckley, PhD, Exec. Director, Vanderbilt Ctr for Evidence-based Medicine
Lee Schwamm, MD, FAHA, Director, Telestroke & Acute Stroke Services, MGH

Interview: Exploring the Role of Provider-Based Systems in Remote Health Services:
Molly J. Coye, MD, MPH, Founder & CEO, Health Technology Center
Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, MPP, Renaissance Health 

But Does It Add Value? Challenges in Connected Health Research:
Moderator: Danny Sands, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Diane Mahoney, PhD, Institute of Health Professions
Robert Mandel, MD, Vice President of Provider Enrollment & Services, BCBS-MA
Hon Pak, MD, TATRC, U.S. Army Medical Research & Material Command Ritu Agarwal, Professor & Dean's Chair of I.S., University of Maryland, College Park 

Combating Public Health Threats through the Deployment of Connected Health Technologies:
Moderator: Susan Dimmick, PhD, Adjunct Assoc Prof, University of Tennessee Health Science Ctr
COL Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Steven E. Locke, MD, Senior Scientist, Clinical Computing Ctr & Psych. Dept, BIDMC
David Balch, DCB Consulting, LLC 

Awakening of the Sleeping Giants: Multinational Companies Enter the Fray, Telemedicine Comes of Age:
Moderator: Erica Drazen, ScD, First Consulting Group
Richard S. Bakalar, MD, CMO, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences
Nick Augustinos, Director, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Pramod K. Gaur, PhD, President & CEO, Viterion TeleHealthcare LLC
Dr. Ron Ribitzky, Senior Healthcare Strategist, Digital Health Group, Intel 

Transforming Healthcare through Technology:
John Parrish, MD, Founder and Director, CIMIT

International Plenary:
Moderator: Cynthia Bouthot, British Consulate's Office
Tim Boulton, Head of Healthcare Business Relations, BT Group
Jeremy Nettle, European Director for Oracle Corporation Healthcare
Gordon Peterkin, Director, Scottish Centre for Telehealth
Sinead Quinn, Healthcare Program Manager, Intellect
Adrian Flowerday, CEO, Docobo

Public Policy & Connected Health: Anticipating Public & Political Concerns:
Moderator: David Lansky, PhD, Senior Director, Health Program, Markle Foundation
Janlori Goldman, Director, Health Privacy Project
Lee Schwamm, MD, FAHA, Director, Telestroke & Acute Stroke Services, MGH
Jessica Wolfe, PhD, MPH, Trustee, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Connected Health Pipeline: Preview of Developing Products & Services:
Moderator: Joseph Coughlin, PhD, Director, MIT AgeLab
Cory Kidd, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
Daniel M. Gold, COO, Living Independently, Inc.
Stever Aubrey, CEO, Dovetail Health
Ron Guerriero, Executive Director, Research Accelerator Program, Partners HealthCare System

Pervasive Health: Plug and Play Scenarios:
Moderator: Julian Goldman, MD, MGH
Michael Robkin, Principal Architect, Care Delivery, Kaiser Permanente
Jeffrey Robbins, CEO, LiveData, Inc.

End of Day Reflections - Bringing Connected Health to Scale:
Moderator: Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Telemedicine
Karen M. Bell, MD, MMS, Director, Office of Health IT Adoption
Albert J. Di Rienzo, SVP & CTO, Research & Development, Welch Allyn, Inc.
Astro Teller, CEO, BodyMedia, Inc.
Paul Marchetti, Head of Network Contracting Services, Aetna

Closing Remarks:
Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health 

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