Program IT Symposium -
Wednesday, November 12

TimeTopicSpeaker / Moderator
12:00 p.m.Registration
1:00WelcomeRaju Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
Scientific Director Emeritus, Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1:05Keynote TalkDavid J. Brailer, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder, Health Evolution Partners (Former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

Introducer: Diane Keogh
Corporate Director, Research Computing, Partners HealthCare

1:40Panel 1: Genetics into the Healthcare EnterpriseModerator: John P. Glaser, Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare

Lionel Binns
Business Development Executive, Emerging Markets, Worldwide Health and Life Sciences, Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard Company

Neil de Crescenzo
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Oracle Corporation

Janet Dillione
Chief Executive Officer, Health Services, Siemens Medical Solutions

Eiry W. Roberts, MB (Hons) BS MRCP FFPM
Vice President, Transitional Phase Development, Eli Lilly and Company

2:40Break

3:10Panel 2: Business OutlookModerator: Thomas J. Miller
Chief Executive Officer, Workflow and Solutions, Siemens Healthcare

George M. Church, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director, Center for Computational Genetics

James Heywood
Chairman and Co-Founder, PatientsLikeMe

Frederick S. Lee, M.D., M.P.H.
Product Manager for Personalized Medicine and Genomics, McKesson Corp.

Eiry W. Roberts, M.D.
Vice President, Project/Program Medical, Eli Lilly and Company

Steven St. Peter, M.D., M.B.A.
Managing Director, MPM Capital

4:15Panel 3: IT in Personalized GenomicsModerator: Samuel J. Aronson
Executive Director of Information Technology, Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics

Linda Avey
Co-Founder, 23andMe

Jorge Conde
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Knome, Inc.

David P. King
Chief Executive Officer, LabCorp

Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D.
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Navigenics

5:15ClosingRaju Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
Scientific Director Emeritus, Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School



Main Conference - Thursday, November 13

TimeTopicSpeaker / Moderator
7:30 a.m.Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:45WelcomeRaju Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
Scientific Director Emeritus, Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

9:00Keynote TalkClayton M. Christensen, D.B.A.
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Introducer:
Sandra Glucksmann, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Tempo Pharmaceuticals

Keynote TalkRichard M.J. Bohmer, MBChB, MPH
MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Introducer: Robert I. Tepper, M.D.
Partner, Third Rock Ventures, LLC

Conversation with Keynote SpeakersModerator: Richard G. Hamermesh, D.B.A.
MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

10:30Break
11:15Session I: Evidence-Based MedicineIntroducer: Christine Seidman, M.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Moderator: Mason W. Freeman, M.D.
Chief, Lipid Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Mark A. Creager, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Felix W. Frueh, Ph.D.
Vice President, R&D Personalized Medicine, Medco Health Solutions

Matthew P. Goetz, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Oncology, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic

Peter G. Traber, M.D.
President & CEO, Baylor College of Medicine

12:30 p.m.Break

1:00Luncheon & Keynote TalkThe Lord Naren Patel
The House of Lords, United Kingdom

Introducer: Joanne C. Armstrong, M.D.
Senior Medical Director for Women's Health and Clinical Lead for Genomics, Aetna, Inc.

2:00Table DiscussionsFacilitators:
Robert C. Wells
Partner, Health Futures, LLC

Harry Glorikian
Managing Partner, Scientia Advisors

Mollie Roth, Esq.
Corporate Counsel, VP, Business Development, Diaceutics

3:00Break

3:15Keynote TalkAidan C. Power, MB BCh MSc MRCPsych
Vice President & Global Head of Molecular Medicine, Pfizer Global Research and Development

Introducer: Nadine Cohen, Ph.D.
Head of Pharmacogenomics and Senior Research Fellow, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development East Coast and Europe

3:45Session II: Drugs & TreatmentModerator: Deborah Dunsire, M.D.
President and CEO, Millennium: The TAKEDA Oncology Company

David D. Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President, Global Oncology Development, Amgen

Bruce E. Johnson, M.D.
Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

5:00Reception



Main Conference - Friday, November 14

TimeTopicSpeaker / Moderator
7:15 a.m.Continental Breakfast

8:15Keynote Talk

Personalized Medicine Coalition's Fourth Annual Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine
The Hon. Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Introducer: James J. Mongan, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Partners HealthCare

Award Background: Edward Abrahams, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Personalized Medicine Coalition

Presenter: Mara G. Aspinall
Senior Advisor, Genzyme Corporation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

9:15Session III: Government & RegulatorsModerator: M. Kathleen Behrens, Ph.D.
General Partner, RS Investments, Member, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

Arthur A. Daemmrich, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.
Program Director, Personalized Health Care, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Lawrence J. Lesko, Ph.D., FCP
Director, Office of Clinical Pharmacology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Michael Paul, Ph.D.
President and CEO, LineaGen

10:30Break

11:00Session IV: ReimbursementModerator: Samuel R. Nussbaum, M.D.
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Wellpoint, Inc.

Mara G. Aspinall
Senior Advisor, Genzyme Corporation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Robert S. Epstein, M.D., M.S.
Senior Vice President, Medical & Analytical Affairs, and Chief Medical Officer, Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

Carol J. McCall, FSA MAAA
Vice President, Research and Development, Humana Inc.

Margaret Piper, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Association Technology Evaluation Center

12:15Town Hall MeetingFacilitators:

Robert C. Wells
Partner, HealthFutures, LLC

Harry Glorikian
Managing Partner, Scientia Advisors

Mollie Roth, Esq.
Corporate Counsel, VP, Business Development, Diaceutics

1:15ClosingRaju Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
Scientific Director Emeritus, Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1:30 p.m.Bag Lunch


  November 12-14, 2008 - The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

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