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Day 1

Opening Comments - Michael M.E. Johns, MD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Chairman, Emory Healthcare

James Wagner
President, Emory University

Keynote Lecture - Leroy Hood
Director, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle

Biology of Health: Genes
    Speaker 1:
    Stephen T. Warren, PhD
    Chair, Department of Human Genetics
    Emory University School of Medicine

    Speaker 2:
    Eric D. Green, MD, PhD
    National Human Genome Research Institute
    National Institutes of Health

    Mini-panel Discussion

Biology of Health: Infections
    Speaker 1:
    Martin Blaser, MD
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Medicine
    Professor of Microbiology
    NYU Medical Center

    Speaker 2:
    David S. Stephens, MD
    Executive Associate Dean for Research
    Emory University School of Medicine

    Mini-panel Discussion

Biology of Health: Oxidative Stress
    Speaker 1:
    Stan Hazen, MD, PhD
    Director of Preventive Cardiology
    The Cleveland Clinic

    Speaker 2:
    R. Wayne Alexander, MD, PhD
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Medicine
    Emory University School of Medicine

    Mini-panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Lessons from Day 1 - Michael M.E. Johns, MD



Day 2

Keynote Lecture - Ralph Snyderman
Chancellor of Health Affairs, Emeritus
Duke University

Biology of Health: Life Style
    Opening Comments - Jeffrey P. Koplan
    Vice President of Academic Health Affairs
    Emory University

    Speaker:
    Muin Khoury, MD, PhD
    Chief, Public Health Genetics
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Mini-panel Discussion

Preventing Health Failure: Regenerative Medicine
    Opening Comments - Robert Nerem
    Director, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Speaker 1:
    Samuel C. Dudley, Jr.
    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Emory University School of Medicine
    Chief of Cardiology
    Veterans Administration Medical Center

    Speaker 2:
    Linda G. Griffith, PhD
    Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
    Director, BPEC
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Mini-panel Discussion

Diagnosing and Preventing Health Failure: Emerging Technologies
    Speaker 1:
    François Sainfort, PhD
    William W. George Professor of Health Systems
    Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
    Emory University/Georgia Tech

    Speaker 2:
    Gang Bao, PhD
    Professor
    Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
    Emory University/Georgia Tech

    Mini-panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Lessons from Day 2 - Don Giddens, PhD
Dean, College of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Closing Remarks - Michael M.E. Johns, MD








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