Pre-conference Information Technology & Personalized Medicine Symposium
Overview

The Special Information Technology & Personalized Medicine Symposium will be a featured event taking place on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 12 prior to the main conference, Personalized Medicine: A Value Proposition. This Symposium, expected to be an intensive discussion with a select audience of attendees, will focus on the integration of information technology and personalized medicine and the solutions that have been found to move this field forward.

Speakers have been asked to present their companies' information technology efforts relative to personalized medicine. Panels include "Incorporating Genetics into the Healthcare Enterprise," where attendees will hear from large healthcare organizations about the challenges they have faced incorporating genetic data into their institutions and what solutions they have found, "The Business Outlook for Integrating Genetics & Genomics As a Health Information Tool," where business leaders will discuss how they handle financial risk when it comes to collecting and utilizing genetic knowledge, and "Information Technology & Personalized Genomics," where direct-to-consumer and next generation sequencing companies will describe how the business models??they support can impact how traditional healthcare is delivered.


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




Registration

Those who register for the main conference may attend this Symposium at no additional charge. During registration, please check the box for "Information Technology and Personalized Medicine Symposium - Wednesday, November 12", as there is limited capacity for this event. If this checkbox was not available when you registered, the conference organizers will contact you to confirm your attendance at this event.

Organizing Committee

Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D., Chair
Scientific Director, Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Samuel (Sandy) J. Aronson
Executive Director of Information Technology, Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics

David 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)

John P. Glaser, Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare

Jeffrey D. Miller
Vice President, WW Health and Life Sciences, WW Public Sector, Hewlett-Packard Company

Thomas J. Miller
Chief Executive Officer, Workflow and Solutions, Siemens Healthcare

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

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