Healthcare

The ongoing “fixing healthcare” discussion at FiRe is focused on the question of how to repair a broken business model, generally seeking ways to bring providers and patients back into primary contact. This area also includes new innovations in healthcare solutions, from the Quantified Self to the new SNS field of Nutritional Microanalysis.

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Personal Predictive Medicine

October 12, 2017

"Computer Modeling Synchronicity of Whole Body Systems: A New Path in Preventative Medicine"

and

"Who Are Scientists’ Customers? How Reshaping Publicly Funded Research Could Lead to Rapid Evolution in Personal Predictive Medicine":

Benjamin Smarr, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley

Hosted by Rep. Mike Winder, Utah House of Representatives, and Executive Director, Friends of Traditional Banking

The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Initiative

October 12, 2017

Introduction by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director; and Co-Founder, UnDx

"Undiagnosed, The Documentary": Katia Moritz, Filmmaker (Undiagnosed: Medical Refugees)

"The UnDx Initiative, Year 2: Moving from Silos Toward Systems in Precision Medicine": Doug Jamison, Founder and CEO, HALE.life; Andreas Kogelnik, Director, Open Medicine Institute; DeAunne Denmark, Precision Medicine & Research, Open Medicine Institute; and Michael Kurisu, Clinical Director,Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSD

Hostedby Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership

The End of Disease: Solving the Healthcare Crisis

October 10, 2017

Leroy Hood, Presidentand Co-Founder, Institute for Systems Biology; and SVP and Chief Science Officer, Providence Health & Services

Bleeding-Edge Medicine: Today’s Discoveries, Tomorrow’s Practice

September 30, 2016

With Oren Gilad, CEO, Atrin Pharmaceuticals; Don Straus, Founder and CEO, First Light Biosciences; Shawn Iadonato, Co-Founder and CEO, Kineta; and Caitlin Cameron, Chair and CEO, OtoNexus; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC

The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Global Initiative

September 29, 2016

With Katia Moritz, Director, Undiagnosed (the documentary); Ryan Taft, Senior Director, Scientific Research, Illumina Inc.; John Ryals, CEO, Metabolon; and Robin Y. Smith, CEO, ORIG3N; hosted by Doug Jamison, CEO, Harris & Harris Group

Treat the Patient, Not the Disease

September 29, 2016

With Glenn Snyder, Medical Technology Segment Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP; and Michael E. Raynor, Director, Monitor Deloitte; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science

Digital Wellness and the Transformation of Healthcare

May 21, 2014

FiRe 2014: "Digital Wellness and the Transformation of Healthcare": Leroy Hood; hosted by Larry Smarr

A New Handheld Device to Save Your Life

May 24, 2013

"Curing Heart Disease with Big Data": A conversation with Nassir Marrouche, Executive Director, CARMA, University of Utah; Followed by "A New Handheld Device to Save Your Life": A conversation with Karim Marrouche, Co-Founder and President, Cardiac Designs

CTO Design Challenge: “Creating the New Field of ‘Nutritional Microanalysis’: Inputs for the Quantified Self”

May 25, 2012

The goal of the 2012 CTO Design Challenge: to create a new field of medicine and a research platform for understanding human health and disease, and their connection to the human genome, by evaluating the inputs on a chemical level and their effects on the body’s processes.

“Integrating Robots into Our Homes, Healthcare, and Beyond”

May 24, 2012

A conversation with Colin Angle, CEO and Co-Founder, iRobot; hosted by Patrick Lane, Technology Correspondent, The Economist

“Integrating for Better Healthcare Solutions”

May 23, 2012

With Kian Saneii, CEO, Independa; Philippa Lewis, CEO, Simavita; Davis Brimer, Founder and CEO, Active Life Scientific; and Fred Lee, Business Development Strategies, Health Sciences Global Business Unit, Oracle; hosted by Doug Smith, President, W.D. Smith & Associates

Leaders in This Focus Channel

Sailesh Chutani

CEO and Co-Founder, Mobisante, Inc

Steve Watkins

CTO, Metabolon Inc.

Robin Y. Smith

CEO, ORIG3N

Heather Richman

VP Government Relations & External Affairs, HEVT

Constantine Davlantes

Vice President, Business Development, NivaSonix, LLC

James Fallon

Chief Scientific Officer, NeuroRepair Inc.

Larry Smarr

Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2; a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership)

Kian Saneii

CEO, Independa Inc.

Glenn Snyder

Principal, US Med Tech Segment Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Don Straus

Founder, CEO, and CSO, First Light Biosciences

Jonathan DeHart

President and CEO, NorthShore Bio

Leroy Hood

President, Institute for Systems Biology

André de Fusco

CEO, Cynvenio Biosystems

Davis Brimer

Founder and CEO, Active Life Scientific Inc.

Jessica Richman

Co-Founder and CEO, uBiome

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Date

October 8-11, 2019

Location

The Lodge at Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA

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