Predictive Health Symposium 2005

A field of national healthcare leaders assembled at Emory University on Dec. 19 and 20, 2005, to offer new perspectives on predictive health -- a new model of healthcare that will harness advances in bioscience to identify individuals at risk for disease long before symptoms appear and to halt disease before it begins. Enjoy the videos available below or read the related press release.

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2005

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Day 1

Opening Comments - Michael M.E. Johns, MD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Chairman, Emory Healthcare

James Wagner
President, Emory University

Keynote Lecture - Leroy Hood
Director, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle

Biology of Health: Genes
    Speaker 1:
    Stephen T. Warren, PhD
    Chair, Department of Human Genetics
    Emory University School of Medicine

    Speaker 2:
    Eric D. Green, MD, PhD
    National Human Genome Research Institute
    National Institutes of Health

    Mini-panel Discussion

Biology of Health: Infections
    Speaker 1:
    Martin Blaser, MD
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Medicine
    Professor of Microbiology
    NYU Medical Center

    Speaker 2:
    David S. Stephens, MD
    Executive Associate Dean for Research
    Emory University School of Medicine

    Mini-panel Discussion

Biology of Health: Oxidative Stress
    Speaker 1:
    Stan Hazen, MD, PhD
    Director of Preventive Cardiology
    The Cleveland Clinic

    Speaker 2:
    R. Wayne Alexander, MD, PhD
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Medicine
    Emory University School of Medicine

    Mini-panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Lessons from Day 1 - Michael M.E. Johns, MD

Day 2

Keynote Lecture - Ralph Snyderman
Chancellor of Health Affairs, Emeritus
Duke University

Biology of Health: Life Style
    Opening Comments - Jeffrey P. Koplan
    Vice President of Academic Health Affairs
    Emory University

    Speaker:
    Muin Khoury, MD, PhD
    Chief, Public Health Genetics
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Mini-panel Discussion

Preventing Health Failure: Regenerative Medicine
    Opening Comments - Robert Nerem
    Director, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Speaker 1:
    Samuel C. Dudley, Jr.
    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Emory University School of Medicine
    Chief of Cardiology
    Veterans Administration Medical Center

    Speaker 2:
    Linda G. Griffith, PhD
    Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
    Director, BPEC
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Mini-panel Discussion

Diagnosing and Preventing Health Failure: Emerging Technologies
    Speaker 1:
    François Sainfort, PhD
    William W. George Professor of Health Systems
    Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
    Emory University/Georgia Tech

    Speaker 2:
    Gang Bao, PhD
    Professor
    Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
    Emory University/Georgia Tech

    Mini-panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Lessons from Day 2 - Don Giddens, PhD
Dean, College of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Closing Remarks - Michael M.E. Johns, MD

Last Update: 01/17/2008