PULSE: On the Front Lines of Health Care 2017

Welcome

The State of Health Care in America

Speakers

• Avik Roy

  President, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity; Forbes Opinion Editor, The Apothecary

• Audrey Shelto

  President Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation

• Alan Warren

  Chief Technology Officer Oscar

• Steve Clemons

  Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic

• Jon Kingsdale

  Associate Professor of the Practice, Boston University School of Public Health Senior Strategy Advisor, Wakely Consulting; Adjunct Professor, Brown University

One Senator’s Take

Speakers

• Senator Bill Cassidy

  (R-LA)

• Steve Clemons

  Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic

Deploying Data

Speakers

• Kyu Rhee

  Chief Health Officer IBM and Watson Health

• Paul Bleicher

  CEO OptumLabs

• Olga Khazan

  Staff writer, The Atlantic

Training Tomorrow’s Doctors

Speakers

• James Hamblin

  Staff Writer, The Atlantic

• Alison Whelan

  Chief Medical Education Officer Association of American Medical Colleges

• Fidencio Saldaña

  Dean of Students Harvard Medical School

Stretch Break

The End of Antibiotics?

Speakers

• Maryn McKenna

  Journalist and Author

• Kevin Outterson

  Professor, Boston University School of Law; Executive Director, CARB-X

• Erika Kurt

  President and Executive Director Small World Initiative

Preventing a Pandemic

Speakers

• Vanessa Kerry

  CEO and Co-Founder Seed Global Health

• Anthony Fauci

  Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

• Jeffrey Goldberg

  Editor in Chief, The Atlantic

Underwriter Perspective produced by Bayer*

Speakers

• Axel Bouchon***

  Head Bayer Lifescience Center

Breakout: Disrupting Mental Health Care

Speakers

• David Dobbs

  Author and Journalist @David_Dobbs

Breakout: The Personal Genetics Revolution

Speakers

• Joyce Tung

  Vice President of Research 23andMe

• Sharon Begley

  Senior Writer, Science and Discovery, STAT

• Robert Green

  Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Genomes2People Research Program

• Ting Wu

  Director and Co-Founder, Personal Genetics Education Project; Professor, Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Breakout: The View from Kendall Square

Speakers

• Damian Garde

  National Reporter, Biotech, STAT

• Ankit Mahadevia

  President and CEO Spero Therapeutics

• Nancy Simonian

  CEO Syros Pharmaceuticals

• Mayukh Sukhatme

  Chief Business Officer Roivant Sciences, Inc.

• Leslie Williams

  Founder, President & CEO ImmusanT

Breakout: If Our Bodies Could Talk

Speakers

• James Hamblin

  Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Lunch

Welcome Back

The Massachusetts Story

Speakers

• Monica Bharel

  Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Public Health

• Alison Stewart

  Contributing Editor, The Atlantic

Digital Connections for Better Health

Speakers

• Thomas Goetz

  Iodine Co-Founder

• Ross Andersen

  Deputy Editor, The Atlantic

• Jay Desai

  CEO and Co-Founder PatientPing @jdesai01

• Jay Komarneni

  Founder and Chair Human Diagnosis Project

Underwriter Perspective produced by Pfizer*

Speakers

• Justin McCarthy*

  Senior Vice President, Global Policy & International Public Affairs Pfizer Inc.

Mental Health: From Prison to Primary Care

Speakers

• Nneka Jones Tapia

  Executive Director Cook County, Illinois Department of Corrections

• Olga Khazan

  Staff writer, The Atlantic

• Christine Runyun

  Professor of Family Medicine, UMass Medical School; President, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association

Rewriting the Prescription for Opioids

Speakers

• Jennifer Waljee

  Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Medicine; Co-lead, Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network

• Alison Stewart

  Contributing Editor, The Atlantic

• Richard Barth

  Chief of General Surgery Darthmouth-Hitchcock

Stretch Break

Terminally Optimistic: A Patient Perspective

Speakers

• Tom Marsilje

  Senior Research Investigator, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; Blogger, Adventures In Living Terminally Optimistic; Co-Founder, THE COLONTOWN CLINIC

• Ross Andersen

  Deputy Editor, The Atlantic

An Update on the War on Cancer

Speakers

• Sameek Roychowdhury

  Medical Director, CLIA Cancer Genomics Laboratory The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

• Barrett T. Rollins

  Chief Scientific Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Linde Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

• Ross Andersen

  Deputy Editor, The Atlantic

• Stefanie Joho

  Cancer Survivor and Patient Advocate

Underwriter Perspective produced by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society*

Speakers

• Louis DeGennaro

  President and CEO, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

The Power of Gene Editing

Speakers

• Feng Zhang

  Co-Inventor, CRISPR; Core Member, Broad Institute; James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, MIT

Closing Thoughts