Predictive Health Symposium 2006

A distinguished field of national healthcare leaders and biomedical scientists participated in the second annual Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Symposium Dec. 18 and 19, 2006, in Atlanta, offering a variety of perspectives on this new model of healthcare for the 21st century. Enjoy the videos available below or read the related press release.

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2006

Day 1 - December 18, 2006

Opening Comments

Michael M.E. Johns, MD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare

Welcome from Georgia Tech

Gary Schuster
Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology

Welcome from Emory

James Wagner, PhD
President, Emory University

Distinguished Guest

Elias A. Zerhouni, MD
Director, National Institutes of Health

Keynote Speaker

Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
Dean, College of Medicine and Public Health
Senior Vice President and Executive Dean for Health Sciences
Ohio State University Medical Center

Pictures of Health: Present & Future Imaging

Robert J. Gillies, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry, Physiology and Radiology
University of Arizona

Diego Martin, MD, PhD
Professor & Director of MRI
Department of Radiology
Emory University

Carolyn Meltzer, MD
William P. Timmie Professor
Interim Chair of Radiology
Associate Dean for Research
Emory University

Predicting Health vs. Predicting Disease

Timothy W. Behrens, MD
Genentech, Inc.
San Francisco

Corey Keyes, PhD
Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University

Health: More than the absence of disease?

Carol D. Ryff, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology
Director, Institute on Aging
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Panel Discussion

Sue K. Donaldson, PhD
Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing
Corey Keyes, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology
Kathy Parker, PhD
Edith F. Honeycutt Professor, School of Nursing

Day 2 - December 19, 2006

Keynote Lecture

David Schwartz, MD
Director, National Institute of Envirnonmental Health Services
and the National Toxicology Program
National Institutes of Health

The Role of Genetics Science in Predictive Health

Speaker 1
Joseph Cubells, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics
Emory University

Speaker 2
Michael Zwick, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
Emory University

Health Information: Power and Responsibility

Speaker 1
C. Forbes Dewey, Jr., PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker 2
Raimond L. Winslow, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Speaker 3
Eberhard Voit, PhD
Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology

Public Health - Predictive Health: Persons, Populations, Policy, and Politics

Speaker 1
Muin Khoury, MD, PhD
Chief, Public Health Genetics
Centers for Disease Control

Speaker 2
Robert Hanson, MD, PhD
Diabetes and Arthritis Epidemiology Section, Investigator
Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health

Speaker 3
K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA
Hubert Professor, Global Health & Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University

Media Roundtable
Kenneth Brigham, MD
Jamew W. Curran, MD, MPH
Michael M.E. Johns, MD
Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD
David Schwartz, MD
Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
President James Wagner, PhD
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD

Panel Discussion

Closing Remarks
Michael M.E. Johns, MD

Last Update: 01/17/2008