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Future Topics

March 16th Forum:
CIMIT Young Clinician Research Awards Forum and Reception

The CIMIT Young Clinician Research Award provides an opportunity for clinical researchers early in their careers such as Fellows, Instructors, and Assistant Professors to innovate and advance promising healthcare solutions. One clinician from each of CIMIT's member hospitals is selected each year to receive this prestigious award. Through CIMIT's network of site miners, we are able to quickly identify rising stars among our clinical research community to provide a much needed catalyst for these young scientists developing breakthrough medical devices and technologies.

Forum Program:

Donald Ingber MODERATOR: DONALD E. INGBER, MD, PHD
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology in Pathology and Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston. He is also a Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University; Former CIMIT Site Miner, Children’s Hospital Boston

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Clinician Presentations:
Learn how three representative clinicians from each class are working on innovations to improve the care of their patients.

Drug Delivery

Daniel Kohane

SPEAKER: DANIEL S. KOHANE, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston

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Functional and Structural Imaging to Optimize Brain Tumor Resection

SPEAKER: ALEXANDRA GOLBY, MD
Associate Surgeon and Director of Image Guided Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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Optically- guided Differential Diagnosis in Thyroid Nodules

Jennifer Rosen SPEAKER: JENNIFER ROSEN, MD, FACS
The Laszlo N. Tauber Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine

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Panel Discussion:
Experts from Medical Device Industry, Venture Capital, Foundations and Government will provide guidance for the next phase of the projects; i.e., funding options, technology development, pathways to commercialization etc.

PANELISTS:

JOHN BROOKS, III
Founder, Healthcare Capital Consulting

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Nessan Bermingham NESSAN BERMINGHAM, PHD
Founder & Managing Partner, Bioequity Capital

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BETH NICKLAS, ESQ
Vice President and Counsel for Academic and Research Programs, Mass Life Sciences Center

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JOHN HALLER, PHD (Invited)
Program Director, Division of Applied Science and Technology, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

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Reception:

Stories:
Hear how this award has enabled two clinicians to advance their research.

Mission: To establish the first standard of care for local tumor recurrence prevention following surgery

SPEAKER: YOLONDA COLSON, MD, PHD
Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Director of the Women’s Lung Cancer Program and Associate Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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Experience in testing and validating a simplified wound therapy device in Haiti.

SPEAKER: ROBERT RIVIELLO, MD
Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Trauma and Acute Care General Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Hosted Posters: 2009 Award Recipients
Meet the recipients of the Young Clinician Awards and learn about their research.

Future Forum Topics

PLEASE NOTE: Speakers & topics in the distant future can change easily.
Please check this list weekly for updates.

3.23.10

Technology Implementation in Global Health
SPEAKERS: PATRICIA COFFEY
PATH

CATHERINE LAINE
AIDG

At BWH

3.30.10

Approaches to Assessing Comparative and Cost-effectiveness of Healthcare Technology

SPEAKERS:
NEIL LINDEMAN
BWH

JAY SCHNITZER
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC

FRED SCHOEN
BWH

MODERATOR: BARBARA MCNEIL
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

At BWH

4.6.10

Harvard IT Clinical Systems Innovation

SPEAKERS:
NATHANIEL SIMS
MGH

JOSEPH KVEDAR
MGH

SUE SCHADE
BWH

At MGH

4.13.10

Photodetectors for Medicine

SPEAKERS:
SELIM UNLU and HATICE ALTUG
Boston University

At MGH

4.20.10

Lester Wolfe Workshop in Laser Biomedicine

At MGH

4.27.10

The Science of Sleep

SPEAKER: ROBERT THOMAS
BIDMC

At BWH

5.4.10

Innovation Grand Rounds

At MGH

5.11.10

Xenon Delivery System for Neuroprotective Therapy

SPEAKERS: HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE CIMIT TEAM

Neurotherapeutics

SPEAKER: DARIN DOUGHERTY
MGH

At MGH

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