Some of the FutureMed 2012 Faculty
FutureMed Executive Directors, Team and Faculty
- Daniel Kraft MD, Executive Director of FutureMed, Chair of the Medicine Track at Singularity University
- Peter Diamandis MD, Co-Founder of Singularity University, Founder of the X-PRIZE
- Rob Nail, CEO of Singularity University
- Robin Farmanfarmaian, Executive Producer of FutureMed
- Executive and Support Team
EXPONENTIAL & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
- Ray Kurzweil PhD, Co-Founder, Chancellor and Trustee, Singularity University
- Dan Barry MD PhD, Roboticist, Physician, and Three-time Space Shuttle NASA Astronaut
- Salim Ismail, Global Ambassador and founding Executive Director at Singularity University
- Neil Jacobstein, Singularity University Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Co-Chair
- Ralph Merkle, Co-founder, Nanofactory Collaboration
- Marty Kohn MD, Chief Medical Scientist, Care Delivery Systems, IBM Research at IBM
- Stephen Quake PhD, Professor and Co-Chair, Dept of BioEngineering, Stanford University; Investigator HHMI
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Stem cells & beyond, cellular alchemy to 3-D printing of organs and tissues.
- Daniel Kraft MD, Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Chair of Medicine Track, Singularity University
- Gabor Forgacs PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Organovo
- Kevin Stone MD, Orthopedic Surgeon and Chairman, Stone Research Foundation
- Hans S. Keirstead PhD, Stem Cell Pioneer, Professor of Anatomy, Neurobiology & Neurological Surgery at University of California
INFORMATION & DATA DRIVEN HEALTH
The data explosion… from Imaging & Diagnostics to Mobile & Internet Enabled Health
- Roni Zeiger MD, Chief Health Strategist at Google
- Don Jones, Vice President of Wireless Health, Global Strategy and Market Development, Qualcomm Labs
- Thomas Goetz MPH, Executive Editor of WIRED, Author of ‘The Decision Tree”
- Alex Jadad MD, Chief Innovator and Founder, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
- Leslie Saxon MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Southern California. Chair of USC Center for Body Computing
- John Mattison MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente
- David Icke, CEO, mc10 (developing conformal electronics for healthcare)
FUTURE of MEDICAL PRACTICE
How convergent technology will impact the practice of medicine, new models of care from concierge to telemedicine.
- Alan Greene MD, Pediatrician thought leader, Founder of DrGreene.com
- Jordan Shlain MD, Founder Current Health, President-Elect American Academy of Private Physicians.
- Yan Chow MD MBA, Director, Innovation and Advanced Technology at Kaiser Permanente
- Lucien Engelen, Director Radboud REshape & Innovation Centre at Radboud University Medical Centre, Founder TEDxMaastricht
- Rebecca Woodcock, Co-Founder & CEO, Cake Health
- Robin Farmanfarmaian, Executive Producer of FutureMed
- Sean Ahrens, Designer and developer at Crohnology
- Yael Cohen, Founder & President, F*** Cancer
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
Systems medicine & biology to the rapidly emerging world of Synthetic Biology and DIY Biology.
- David Ewing Duncan, Author of Experimental Man and the Personalized Medicine Manifesto
- Randy Scott PhD, Founder and Chairman, Genomic Health
- Raymond McCauley PhD, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Genomera, former Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
- Russ Altman MD PhD, Chairman, BioEngineering Dept, Stanford University & Principle Investigator PharmGKB
- Andreas Sundquist PhD, CEO and Co-Founder, DNAnexus
FUTURE OF INTERVENTION & ROBOTICS
From Robotic Surgery, Bionic limbs and exoskeletons, Smart pills, and Implantable Devices, to targeted gene therapy, and ever shrinking and more capable devices, Nanomedicine.
- Dan Barry MD PhD, 3 time NASA-Astronaut, CEO of Denbar Robotics, Chair of Singularity University Faculty
- Catherine Mohr MD, Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical
- Eythor Bender, CEO of EksoBionics (formally Berkeley Bionics)
- Richard Satava MD, pioneer in surgical robotics and telemedicine, Professor, Dept of Surgery, University of Washington
NEUROMEDICINE
Real time brain imaging, Brain computer interface (BCI), Cognitive Enhancement, Targeted neurointervention, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine.
- Ajay Verma MD PhD, Vice President, Translational Neurology at Biogen Idec
- Christopher DeCharms PhD, Founder of Omeneron
- Philip Steven Low PhD, CEO, Chairman and Founder of NeuroVigil, Inc.
- Dale Bredesen MD, Professor and Founding President, Buck Institute for Age Research
- Tan Le, Co-Founder & President, Emotiv Systems
INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Includes Synthetic Biology, Future of Drug Discovery, Device Development and the funding, opportunities and barriers (regulatory and otherwise) of biomedical innovation.
- Paul Yock MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Biodesign Program at Stanford
- Geetha Rao PhD, Triple Ring Technologies, Founder MyMedFax
- David Webster, Partner at IDEO
- Carlos Olguin, Senior Product Designer, Autodesk
- Nick Soloway, Founding Partner, Hayes Soloway, PC, Intellectual Property Worldwide
- David Albert MD, Co-Founder, AlivCor, Inc
- Anne DeGheest, Managing Partner at MedStars Ventures Partners
- Amir Belson MD, President, Zipline Medical
- Allan May, Founder of Life Science Angels
- Astro Teller PhD, Director of New Projects for Google
GLOBAL HEALTH
- Lucky Gunasekara, CIO, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (GVFI)
- Yuri Millo, Director of The Simulation and Training Environment Lab (SiTEL)
- Sheri Fink MD PhD, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Propublica
GOVERNMENT & REGULATORY
- David Sayen, CMS Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Paul Grundy MD MPH FACOEM FACPM, IBM Corporation’s Global Director, IBM Healthcare Transformation
- David Hale, Project Manager of Pillbox, National Library of Medicine/FDA Initiative
LONGEVITY
- Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation
- Sonia Arrison, Bestselling author and technology analyst, Singularity University Founder, Trustee & Academic Advisor
- Matthew O’Connor
- Gouri Yogalingam
OTHER FACULTY & SPEAKERS INCLUDE
- Jeremy Bailenson, Director, Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford
- Marc Goodman, Founder, Future Crimes
- Yuri Millo: Director of The Simulation and Training Environment Lab (SiTEL)
- David Bolinsky, Medical Director XVivo Scientific Animation
- David Webster, Partner at IDEO
- Sophia Chang MD MPH, Director, Chronic Disease Care Program, California HealthCare Foundation
- Margaret Laws, Director of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Innovations for the Underserved Program
- Julielynn Wong MD, Faculty, Singularity University
- Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA, Anesthesiologist & Entrepreneur, Kaiser Permanente
- Pete Worden PhD, Director of NASA-Ames Research Center
