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- Ernst Berndt, Louis E. Seley Professor in Applied Economics, Sloan School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keynote Topic: Cost of Treatment of Disease - Thomas Fogarty, MD, Founder, Fogarty Institute for Innovation
Keynote Topic: Value Collaboration between Physicians and Engineers - DeVon W. Griffin, PhD, NASA Glenn Research Institute
Keynote Topic: What is the Difference Between Device Cost and Disease Treatment? - William Heetderks, PhD, MD, Director of Extramural Science Programs, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Keynote Topic: The Role of Federal Funding Agencies in the Adoption of Value-driven Engineering - Robert E. Litan, PhD, Vice President for Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Keynote Topic: Medical Innovations and Healthcare Cost -
Marc S. Penn, MD, PhD, FACC, Director, Research Cardiovascular Institute, Summa Health System
Keynote Topic: Clinical Utility to the Clinician - Soumyadipta Acharya, MD, MSE, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: How Medical Device Complexity Fits with Low Resource Settings - Brian Davis, PhD, Vice President, Medical Device Development Center, Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron
Moderator, Session Four: Healthcare and Device Cost - Ali Dhinojwala, PhD, Department Chair, H.A. Morton Professor in Polymer Science, The University of Akron
Panel, Symposium: Educating the Next Generation of Value-driven Innovators -
Frank L. Douglas, PhD, MD, President and CEO, Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron
Welcome and Open Remarks - Stephen D. Fening, PhD, Director of Orthopaedic Devices, Medical Device Development Center, ABIA
Topic: Value-driven Engineering History and the VdE Equation - Martha Gray, PhD, J.W. Kieckhefer Professor of Medical and Electrical Engineering, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
Panel, Symposium: Educating the Next Generation of Value-driven Innovators -
A. Seth Greenwald, DPhil (Oxon), Director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories
Moderator, Session Three: Medical Device Complexity - Jonathan F.I. Greenwald, Business Development Director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories
Moderator, Value Collaboration between Physicians and Engineers - R. Reade Harpham, Manager, Human Centric Design, Health and Life Sciences, Battelle
Topic: Starting at the End: Patient Centric Innovation in Healthcare - Martin P. Hauser, President, SummaCare Inc.
Topic: Cost of Treatment of Disease -
Michael Hawkins, PhD, Vice President of Corporate Research, Zimmer, Inc.
Topic: Increasing Value to the Supply Chain - Mike Hess, Vice President, Corporate Technology and Innovation, Medtronic Inc.
Topic: What Value-driven Engineering means to the Medical Device Industry - Uday N. Kumar, MD, Founder, iRhythm Technologies Inc.; Fellowship Director, Global Biodesign Programs, Stanford University
Moderator, Session Five: Value - A. Jay Khanna, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Driving Clinical Utility by Incentivizing Physicians to Participate - Debra Lappin, Senior Vice President, B&D Consulting
Topic: Why is Patient Centricity Important: A Patient Perspective -
Megan Moynahan, Associate Director of Technology and Innovation, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Topic: Regulatory Innovation Pathway - Luis M. Proenza, PhD, President, The University of Akron; Board of Directors, U.S. Council of Competitiveness
Topic: Value from an Academic Perspective - Richard Skolasky, ScD, Director, Spine Outcomes Research Center, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: How do you Measure Cost for Value-driven Engineering? - Lynn Andrea Stein, PhD, Director of the Initiative for Innovation in Engineering Education, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Panel, Symposium: Educating the Next Generation of Value-driven Innovators - Stephen P. Welby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering
Topic: Department of Defense’s Value Engineering Initiative - Scott Weiner, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery, Summa Health System
Topic: Using Medical Devices in a Low Resources Setting - Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA, Executive Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Johns Hopkins University
Moderator, Symposium: Educating the Next Generation of Value-driven Innovators
