TEDMED Meetups, uniquely designed conversations, have interaction the complete TEDMED neighborhood to share their particular person views and voices to assist enhance humanity’s well being. Learn on to view among the particulars of those fascinating conversations going down at TEDMED 2020.
Meetup 1
Tuesday, March third, 8:00 am- 8:45 am
Local weather and Tradition, A Well being Fairness Dialog
Hosted by RWJF and facilitated by Malik Yakini, an RWJF Well being Fairness Professional
Audio system: Cheryl Holder, Jyoti Sharma, and Thijs Biersteker
Description: Once we think about human well being, we should think about local weather well being. Whether or not it’s the affect the local weather has on the social determinants of our well being, the depletion of important assets like water attributable to a altering local weather, or how we are able to harness artwork to higher join ourselves to the environment, every Speaker on this Meetup has a singular understanding of our connection to local weather and its affect on our well being. Facilitated by Malik Yakinin, a frontrunner of the motion to convey nice fairness to the worldwide meals system, this Meetup will discover how local weather shapes our tradition and impacts our well being.
The Good Life
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Lucy Kalanithi, TEDMED EAB Member and TEDMED 2016 Speaker
Audio system: Kevin Toolis and Louise Aronson
Description: It’s one of many oldest philosophical questions: What’s the good life? As we confront getting old our bodies and our personal mortality, how will we embrace the sweetness and dynamism of our lives in ways in which improve and develop our well being and wellbeing? Hosted by former TEDMED Speaker and Stanford Medication internist, Lucy Kalanithi, this Meetup will discover how reframing the phases of elderhood and embracing demise as a part of life can assist us domesticate the great life.
The Way forward for Well being
Hosted by Deloitte and facilitated by Jennifer Radin, Life Sciences & Well being Care Principal at Deloitte
Audio system: Anupam B. Jena, Michel Maharbiz, and Suchi Saria
Description: Information is throughout us and inside us. With progressive innovation comes new insights to advance well being and drugs. This Meetup will discover how pure experiments can reveal necessary phenomena in our on a regular basis lives, how tiny ultrasound activated implants can present real-time details about our physiology, and the way machine studying is saving lives in our medical system. Led by Deloitte, this Meetup permits us to surprise what the way forward for well being will seem like.
Compassionate Care
Hosted by Astellas Oncology and facilitated by Shontelle Dodson, Senior Vice President for Well being Methods at Astellas
Audio system: Lisa Sanders and Shekinah Elmore
Description: When confronted with a tough analysis or residing with a critical sickness, we should typically handle a substantial amount of uncertainty. Whether or not it’s serving to to discover a analysis or guiding us by way of the uncertainty of an surprising well being concern, well being care suppliers and caregivers play an integral position in guaranteeing that sufferers can discover success even of their most unsure moments. Shontelle Dodson, a well being techniques chief at Astellas, will information this dialogue concerning the significance of infusing extra compassion into care.
Meetup 2
Tuesday, March third, 11:15 am- 12:00 pm
A Tradition of Well being, A Well being Fairness Dialog
Hosted by RWJF and facilitated by Aletha Maybank, an RWJF Well being Fairness Professional
Audio system: Joseph Shin, Sandro Galea, and Wanda Irving
Description: How will we create a tradition of well being in asylum settings and inside techniques teeming with racism? How will we create a tradition that breeds love and never hate? How will we domesticate a tradition of inclusivity and fairness in healthcare? Aletha Maybank, the American Medical Affiliation’s first Chief Well being Fairness Officer, will lead this dialog about bringing to mild the darkest components of our society with the intention to be certain that everybody has a good and simply alternative to be as wholesome as doable.
Personalizing Digital Well being
Hosted by Abbott and facilitated by Toni Nosbush, DVP of World Product Growth at Abbott
Hive Innovators: Claire Novorol of Ada Well being; Leah Sparks of Wildflower Well being; and, Jon Bloom of Podimetrics
Description: At the moment’s expertise permits healthcare to be personalised like by no means earlier than. On this Innovator Meetup, dialog will middle across the development in digital well being that creates house for tailor-made well being experiences. Whereas these Innovators’ have diversified focuses – starting from household planning, to affected person centered care coordination, and diabetic foot ulcers – the frequent thread is their give attention to efficient, dependable, and personalised care experiences. Guided by Toni Nosbush, a frontrunner in world product improvement at Abbott, this Meetup will discover how higher communication between physician and affected person, facilitated by personalised well being instruments, sufferers can obtain tailor-made care to turn into and keep wholesome.
New Age Diagnostics
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Laura Indolfi, TEDMED 2016 Hive Innovator
Hive Innovators: Andy Beck of PathAI; Gabe Kwong of Glympse Bio; Niamh O’Hara of Biotia; William Dunbar of Ontera
Description: On this Hive Innovator Meetup, you should have the prospect to study leading edge life science innovation. With as we speak’s scientific developments, new diagnostic fashions have emerged to detect and intercept illness quicker than ever. With AI-powered pathology and diagnostics, a better take a look at the epigenome, and miniaturized organic sensors, these Innovators are reimagining illness diagnostics. Their expertise will form a future by which sickness may be recognized precisely, shortly, and reliably each time. TEDMED 2016 Hive Innovator Laura Indolfi will lead this dialog concerning the prospects of recent age diagnostics.
New Fashions of Psychological Well being Care
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated Pat Salber, TEDMED Neighborhood Member
Hive Innovators: April Koh of Spring Well being; Peter Hames of Huge Well being; Paula Searcy of Sana Well being
Description: Understanding psychological well being care has turn into an necessary theme of our time. With a gentle rise within the prevalence of psychological well being situations, we should leverage new instruments and approaches to maintain folks wholesome. On this Meetup, Innovators will talk about various fashions of care that work to enhance psychological well being. You’ll study medical units, digital well being merchandise, and techniques stage instruments that leverage new expertise to enhance psychological well being situations like PTSD, sleep problems, nervousness, despair, and extra. Pat Salber, Editor-in-Chief of The Physician Weighs In, will facilitate this Meetup concerning the potential of recent fashions of psychological well being care to result in personalised, tailor-made, and efficient care we’ve not seen earlier than.
Meetup 3
Tuesday, March third, 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
A Simply World
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Pam Belluck, TEDMED EAB Member
Audio system: Homer Venters, Laurie Hallmark, and Yasmin Hurd
Description: From combating the opioid epidemic with nontraditional options, to reworking authorized illustration and advocacy for folks with critical psychological sickness, to restoring well being justice for incarcerated people, the Audio system on this Meetup are bettering well being for a few of society’s most susceptible populations. Pam Belluck, Pulitzer Prize successful science author for The New York Instances, will facilitate this dialogue about what it means to create a good and simply world.
Well being Techquity, A Well being Fairness Dialog
Hosted by RWJF and facilitated by Margaret Legal guidelines, an RWJF Well being Fairness Professional
Hive Innovators: Kevin Quennesson of Braid.Well being; Mercy Asiedu of Calla Well being; Taylor Justice of Unite Us
Description: “Techquity” describes the usage of expertise to create a extra equitable world. On this Meetup, Innovators will share how they’re making healthcare extra accessible and equitable by leveraging new-age expertise. From a medical gadget that empowers ladies to grasp their cervical well being, to a platform connecting susceptible populations to social service suppliers, and an AI-powered instrument that makes radiology accessible to all folks, these Innovators are utilizing expertise to fill main gaps in as we speak’s healthcare system. Margaret Legal guidelines, an RWJF TEDMED 2020 Well being Fairness Professional and head of HopeLab, will facilitate this dialog about how ‘techquity’ can assist well being turn into extra equitable, quicker.
The Energy of Medical Information
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Jeff Karp, TEDMED EAB Member; TEDMED 2014 Speaker
Hive Innovators: Andrew Le of Buoy; Jane van Dis of Maven; Sunny Williams of Tiny Docs
Description: Ought to medical information be reserved for educated professionals, or can it lie with sufferers and communities? The Innovators on this Meetup will converse to the significance of empowering sufferers with medical information that’s correct, dependable, and tailor-made to their distinctive wants. TEDMED 2014 Speaker Jeff Karp will lead this dialog analyzing how medical information may be delivered in varied varieties–telemedicine, digital communities, AI-powered assistants, and even “caretoons” — all whereas serving the tailor-made wants ladies, kids, underserved populations, or your common well being client.
Mapping Human Well being
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Zen Chu, TEDMED Neighborhood Member
Hive Innovators: Andy Blackwell of Eight Billion Minds; Katharine Grabek of Fauna Bio; Nancy Yu of RDMD; Ted Schenkelberg of Human Vaccines Mission
Description: With the rise of expertise, we’ve the chance to seize well being knowledge like by no means earlier than. On this Meetup, Innovators will display the methods by which knowledge may be mapped, throughout situations, to higher perceive, analyze, and reimagine human well being. Zen Chu of MIT’s Hacking Medication Initiative will lead this Meetups about mapping developments round psychological well being, immunity, uncommon ailments, and even animal genomics, and what it means for the way forward for knowledge and human well being.
Meetup 4
Tuesday, March third, 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Youth and Reality, A Well being Fairness Dialog
Hosted by RWJF and facilitated by Kellan Baker, an RWJF Well being Fairness Professional
Audio system: Anne Marie Albanno, Cheryl King, Francis X. Shen
Description: Coping with nervousness, temper problems, growing brains, sexuality, and social pressures is only one facet of the challenges that include the transition from adolescence to younger maturity. How can we higher perceive the growing mind with the intention to be certain that all people obtain entry to the remedy and care they require? Facilitated by Kellan Baker, a number one researcher of how reshaping socioeconomic and political determinants of well being can create higher well being fairness for transgender populations and different marginalized teams, this Meetup will give attention to how we as a society can greatest assist our younger adults.
That means Making and Reminiscence
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Kafui Dzirasa, TEDMED EAB Member and TEDMED 2017 Speaker
Audio system: Anne Basting, Beatie Wolfe, Frederick Streeter Barrett
Description: French thinker, Rene Descartes’ well-known phrases “I feel, due to this fact I’m” is a strong assertion a few sense of consciousness inside ourselves. On this Meetup, we discover our mind as a dynamic and sophisticated organ by evaluating inventive stimuli that result in stunning reactions in sufferers with cognitive impairments and by understanding thoughts altering experiences that enable us to develop and to heal. Led by former TEDMED Speaker, Kafui Dzirasa, this Meetup challenges us to think about the that means of life when recollections fade.
The Social Aspect of Well being
Hosted by Humana and facilitated by William Shrank, Chief Medical and Company Affairs Officer at Humana
Audio system: Cheryl Holder and Jonathan Gruber
Description: Well being, as we all know, is extra than simply medical. Our well being is impacted by economics, the healthcare system, the setting, and our social environment. Whether or not it’s understanding the affect of a altering local weather on inhabitants well being or structuring our well being techniques to make healthcare higher and extra accessible, how we take into consideration the social aspect of healthcare issues. Humana’s Chief Medical and Company Affairs Officer, William Shrank, will information this dialogue.
Belief in Medication
Hosted by the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) and facilitated by USP’s CEO Ron Piervincenzi
Audio system: Heidi Larson, Katherine Eban, and Ralph Nader
Description: All of us deserve medicines that we are able to belief, however globally, many lack entry to high-quality medicines and the well being impacts may be detrimental. On this Meetup, hear from TEDMED Audio system who’re analyzing the situations by which low-cost generic drugs are made, are advocating for client rights to assist guarantee we’ve entry to protected medicines, and are working to revive the general public’s belief within the vaccines that assist maintain us protected. Facilitated by Ron Piervincenzi, the CEO of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, this dialog will dive into how main thinkers and doers are working to construct and preserve belief in drugs.
Meetup 5
Wednesday, March 4th, 8:00 am – 8:45 am
Infectious Illness and Innovation
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Celine Gounder, TEDMED EAB Member
Audio system: Heidi Larson, Leor Weinberger, and Matt Hepburn
Description: What does it take to combat illness and are we ready for the subsequent pandemic? Infectious illness specialist and TEDMED Editorial Advisory Board member Celine Gounder will lead this Meetup dialog analyzing the techniques vital to handle pandemic threats – from world vaccine uptake to the event of novel therapies to deprive infectious illness.
Novel Approaches to Huge Issues, A Well being Fairness Dialog
Hosted by RWJF and facilitated by Aletha Maybank, an RWJF Well being Fairness Professional
Audio system: Cheryl King, Francis X. Shen, and Thomas Abt
Description: Huge issues require massive options. The audio system on this Meetup are growing and implementing massive, novel options to a few of society’s most critical points. From curbing the rising charges of juvenile suicide, to combating for justice within the authorized system, to lowering city violence, these people are dedicated to saving the lives of a few of our most susceptible populations. Aletha Maybank, the AMA’s Chief Well being Fairness Workplace, will information the dialog and assist us to grasp how fairness performs a key position to find options to those points.
A Imaginative and prescient for a More healthy Future
Hosted by Geisinger and facilitated by Geisinger Management
Audio system: Fred Moll, Gokul Upadhyayula, and Suchi Saria
Description: We stay in a world the place robotics, bioimaging, and machine studying have gotten more and more frequent phrases. This Meetup will discover the probabilities of regularly rising applied sciences with capabilities to rework healthcare instruments as we presently know them. Geisinger will lead this Meetup dialogue concerning the position of expertise in making a more healthy future.
Science and Storytelling
Hosted by the TEDMED Neighborhood and facilitated by Nadja Oertelt, TEDMED EAB Member and TEDMED 2017 Hive Innovator
Audio system: Amit Choudhary, Michel Maharbiz, Zuberoa Marcos
Description: Whether or not it’s conveying the nuances and implications of a instrument as highly effective as CRISPR, understanding molecular and physiological states, or harnessing the ability of storytelling in presenting scientific advances to maintain the world transferring ahead, how we inform the story of science is integral to reaching and provoking a broad viewers and making the affect wanted to form a more healthy humanity. Nadja Oertelt, TEDMED 2017 Hive Innovator and Co-Founding father of Large Science, facilitates this dialog about science and storytelling.
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