Program at a Glance
| Opening Remarks | 10:00 am – 10:05 am EDT |
| Symposium #1: Public Forum on HTIT: Innovative Medical Device Industry | 10:05 am – 1:30 pm EDT |
| Moderator: Natalie Wisniewski, Ph.D. & Metin Akay, Ph.D. | |
| Anja Brau, Ph.D., GE Healthcare Innovations in the MRI Industry |
10:05am – 10:25am EDT |
| Peter C. Simpson, M.S., Dexcom Future Technologies for Diabetes Management |
10:25am – 10:45am EDT |
| Alicia Chong Rodriguez, M.S., Bloomer Tech Improving Women’s Cardiovascular Health via Smart Clothing |
10:45am – 11:05am EDT |
| Adam Sharkawy, Ph.D., Material Impact Medical Device Innovations: a VC Perspective |
11:05am – 11:25am EDT |
| Break | 11:25am – 11:35am EDT |
| Stephanie Fertig, Ph.D., NIH Seeding Future Innovations |
11:35am – 11:55am EDT |
| Mike Hess, M.S., Medtronic Delivering the Next Generation Medical Device Technologies |
11:55am – 12:15pm EDT |
| Oxana Pantchenko, Ph.D., NextFlex Flexible Hybrid Electronics in Medical Devices |
12:15pm – 12:35pm EDT |
| Break | 12:35pm – 12:45pm EDT |
| PANEL DISCUSSION and Wrap-up (Wisniewski & Akay) | 12:45pm – 1:30pm EDT |
| Symposium #2: Public Forum on HTIT: Digital Health Industry | 10:00 am – 1;30 pm EDT |
| Moderators: Ming Jack Po, M.D., Ph.D. & Bruce Hecht, M.S. | |
| Kow Ping, M.S., Well Being Digital Unique and Highly Accurate Sensing Technology in Earbuds for Digital Health |
10:00am – 10:20am EDT |
| Jeffrey S. Palmer, Ph.D., MIT Lincoln Laboratory A Window into Digital Health through Speech: Vocal Biomarkers of Neurological Conditions |
10:20am – 10:40am EDT |
| Zen Chu, MBA, AccelMed Venture Digital Health: from Problems to Startups |
10:40am – 11:00am EDT |
| Heidi Dohse, M.S., Tour de Heart Improving Patient Outcomes using Digital Health Technologies |
11:00am – 11:20am EDT |
| Break |
11:20am – 11:30am EDT |
| Kevin Zhao, M.S., Harmonize, Inc The unfulfilled potential of enterprise digital health |
11:30am – 11:50am EDT |
| Julien Penders, M.S., Bloomlife Inc Bringing Prenatal Care in the 21st Century |
11:50am – 12:10pm EDT |
| Steve Xu, MD, MSc, FAAD., Sibel Health Wearables and COVID-19: Gaps and Opportunities |
12:10pm – 12:30pm EDT |
| Break | 12:30pm – 12:40pm EDT |
| PANEL DISCUSSION and Wrap-up (Po & Hecht) | 12:40pm – 1:30pm EDT |
| Symposium #3: Public Forum on HTIT: BioPharm and BioTech Industry | 10:00 am – 1:30 pm EDT |
| Moderator: Colin Brenan, Ph.D. & Ali Tinazli, Ph.D. | |
| David A Weitz, Ph.D., Calyxia Translation of technology from academia to biotech startups |
10:00am – 10:20am EDT |
| Jadwiga Bienkowska, Ph.D., Pfizer AI in Biotech and BioPharm |
10:20am – 10:40am EDT |
| James Sherley, MD, Ph.D., Asymmetrex LLC My Biotech Start-up Founder Story: “Not even thinking about it to thinking about it all the time” |
10:40am – 11:00am EDT |
| Asli Aras, Ph.D., Woodside Capital Partners Investment and M&A Trends in Health-Tech |
11:00am – 11:20am EDT |
| Break |
11:20am – 11:30am EDT |
| Tanya Kanigan, Ph.D., Biocogniv, Inc The pleasures and perils of interdisciplinary research in a medtech startup |
11:30am – 11:50am EDT |
| Tara Heitner, Ph.D., Cyzone Taking risks and coffee meetings: My career in biotech |
11:50am – 12:10pm EDT |
| Meike Herget, Ph.D., Avails Medical, Inc Using electronic biosensors to solve unmet needs in the Clinical Microbiology and antibiotic resistance testing workflow |
12:10pm – 12:30pm EDT |
| Break | 12:30pm – 12:40pm EDT |
| PANEL DISCUSSION and Wrap-up (Brenan & Tinazli) | 12:40pm – 1:30pm EDT |
| Symposium #4: Public Forum on HTIT: NeuroTech Industry | 10:00 am – 1:30 pm EDT |
| Moderators: Erika Ross, Ph.D. & JoJo Platt, M.S. | |
| Chad Bouton, M.S., Neuvotion Unmet Needs and Trends in Neurorehabilitation and Brain Interface Technology |
10:00am – 10:20am EDT |
| Ana Maiques, MBA, Neuroelectrics Developing at home treatments for neurological disorders |
10:20am – 10:40am EDT |
| Marcus Gerhardt, M.S.,Blackrock Neurotech The Long Road to BCI Commercialization |
10:40am – 11:00am EDT |
| Amy Kruse, Ph.D., Prime Movers Lab Current Trends in Neurotech Deal Flow: An Investor’s Perspective |
11:00am – 11:20am EDT |
| Break |
11:20am – 11:30am EDT |
| Yagna Pathak, Ph.D., Abbott Rapid Development of an Integrated Remote Programming Platform for Neuromodulation Systems through the Biodesign process |
11:30am – 11:50am EDT |
| Martha Morrell, MD, NeuroPace From Discovery to Delivery: Development of a Responsive Direct-Brain Neurostimulator for Epilepsy |
11:50am – 12:10pm EDT |
| Chris Berka, M.S., Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc Personalized Medicine for Neurological & Psychiatric Disease with EEG Biomarkers |
12:10pm – 12:30pm EDT |
| Break | 12:30pm – 12:40pm EDT |
| PANEL DISCUSSION and Wrap-up (Ross & Platt) | 12:40pm – 1:30pm EDT |
| Closing Remarks | 1:30 pm EDT |