Some of the FutureMed February 2013 Faculty
FutureMed TEAM
- Daniel Kraft MD, Executive Director of FutureMed, Chair of the Medicine Track at Singularity University
- Robin Farmanfarmaian, Executive Producer of FutureMed, VP of Strategic Relations at Singularity University
- Rob Nail, CEO of Singularity University
- Ari Levitt MD, FutureMed Product Demonstrations Coordinator
- Executive and Support Team
FutureMed February 2013 FACULTY
EXPONENTIAL & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES:
Understanding rapidly developing and exponential technologies, from Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, IT, 3D Printing and beyond.
- Ray Kurzweil, Inventor, Author, Futurist, Co-founder of Singularity University, Director of Engineering Google.
- Peter Diamandis, MD, Chairman & Founder of the X-PRIZE, Co-Founder of Singularity University
- Dan Barry, MD, PhD, Physician, and Three-time Space Shuttle NASA Astronaut, Roboticist
- Neil Jacobstein, Singularity University Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Co-Chair
- Scott Summit, 3D Printing Pioneer. Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bespoke Innovations
- Brad Templeton, Board Member of the Foresight Nanotech Institute, Chairman of the Board at Electronic Frontier Foundation 2000-2010
- Salim Ismail, Global Ambassador and founding Executive Director at Singularity University
- Marc Goodman, Founder, Future Crimes Institute
INFORMATION & DATA DRIVEN HEALTH
The data explosion… from Electronic Medical Records, Quantified Self, Imaging & Diagnostics to Mobile & Internet Enabled Health
- Farzad Mostashari, MD, National Coordinator for Healthcare Information, Office of The National Coordinator (ONC)
- Larry Smarr, PhD, Professor, UCSD, Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)
- John Mattison MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente
- Christopher Longhurst , MD, Associate Professor, Stanford Medical School, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
- Julia Hu, Founder & CEO Lark.
- Marty Kohn, MD, Chief Medical Scientist, Care Delivery Systems, IBM Research (IBM-Watson Medical Team)
NEUROMEDICINE Real time brain imaging, Brain computer interface (BCI), Cognitive Enhancement, Targeted neurointervention, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine.
- Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD, Assoc. Professor of Engineering, Brown Univ. Director of the Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence VA Medical Center
- Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD Professor of Neurology, De Director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center (NIC) at UCSF
- Christopher DeCharms PhD, Founder of Omeneron
- Tiffany Shlain, Award-winning filmmaker, Director of ‘Brain Power’. Founder of the Webby Awards, Co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
- Ariel Garten, Founder and CEO, InteraXon Inc
- Ajay Verma, MD, PhD, Vice President, Translational Neurology at Biogen Idec
FUTURE of MEDICAL PRACTICE How convergent technology will impact the practice of medicine, new models of care from concierge to telemedicine.
- Vinod Khosla Khosla Ventures. Co-founder of SUN-Microsystems.
- Lucien Engelen, Director Radboud REshape & Innovation Centre at Radboud University Medical Centre, Founder TEDxMaastricht
- Daniel Riskin MD, Surgeon. Founder and CEO of Health Fidelity.
- Andreas Kogelnik, MD, PhD, Founder and Director, Open Medicine Institute
- Walter De Brouwer, Founder and CEO of Scanadu
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE Systems medicine & biology to the rapidly emerging world of Synthetic Biology, Diagnostics and DIY Biology
- Ronald Levy, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Lymphoma Program, and Former Chief of the Division of Oncology at Stanford University
- David Ewing Duncan, Author of Experimental Man, When I’m 164, & the Personalized Medicine Manifesto
- Raymond McCauley, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Genomera, former Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
- Elissa Eppel PhD. Associate Professor, UCSF
- Atul Butte, MD. Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Ted Goldstein, PhD candidate, UCSC and Former Vice President of Developer Tools at Apple
- Jack Andraka, Winner of the 2012 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair
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.
- Catherine Mohr MD, Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical
- Jay Schnitzer, MD PhD, Director of the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Peter Fitzgerald, MD Director, Center for Cardiovascular Technology, Stanford University
- Sean Duffy Co-Founder and CEO, Omada Health
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Stem cells & beyond, cellular alchemy to 3-D printing of organs and tissues.
- Alan Russell PhD. Highmark Distinguished Professore in the Institute for Complex and Engineering Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
- Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, MD Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs at NeoStem, Former Associate Center Director, FDA Center for Devices & Radiologic Health
- Daniel Kraft MD, Hematologist/Oncologist, Bone Marrow Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Chair of Medicine Track, Singularity University
INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP Innovating mindset, design thinking, funding, opportunities and barriers (regulatory and otherwise) of biomedical innovation.
- John Abele, Founder, Boston Scientific Corperation
- Esther Dyson Active Healthcare Angel Investor
- David Shaywitz, MD PhD, Co-founder of the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH), a MGH/MIT-based digital health initiative
- Nick Soloway, Founding Partner, Hayes Soloway, PC, Intellectual Property Worldwide
- David Albert MD, Co-Founder, AlivCor, Inc
- Jeremy Stone MD, MBA, Co-Founder, Medical Futures
DESIGN IN HEALTHCARE
- IDEO Design & Innovation Firm
- Jonathan Knowles, Chair, Singularity University Design Track
- David Webster Partner, Global Health & Wellness at IDEO
- Andrew Hessel, Distinguished Research Scientist, Synthetic Biology Expert. Autodesk Bio/Nano Programmable Group
- Carlos Olguin, Director Autodesk Bio/Nano Programmable Group
- Aza Raskin User Interface Designer. Co-founder. Massive Health
- Jose Gomez-Marquez , MIT, Little Devices Lab
ENGAGED & EMPOWERED PATIENTS
- Robin Farmanfarmaian, Executive Producer of FutureMed, Vice President of Strategic Relations, Singularity University
- Sean Ahrens, Designer and Developer at Chronology
- Linda Stone Writer, speaker and consultant focused on technology trends and their strategic and consumer implications
- Yael Cohen Founder & President, F*** Cancer
GLOBAL & PLANETARY HEALTH
- Eric Rassmussen MD , MDM, FACP Global Health Expert. Founding CEO of INSTEDD. Managing Director, Infinitum Humanitarian Systems
- Pete Worden PhD, Director of NASA-Ames Research Center
OTHER FACULTY & SPEAKERS INCLUDE
- Babak Parviz, PhD. Google Glass Project Lead / Google X.
- Robert Strong, The Comedy Magician
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FUTUREMED 2012 FACULTY
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
- 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
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, Founder & Creative Director, E.Mersion Learning Company
- 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
