Boston Children’s Hospital Announces 2014 Global Pediatric Innovation Summit
BOSTON, MA - Jun 26, 2014 -
Boston Childrens Hospital will host its second annual pediatric
innovation summit October 30-31, 2014 at the Seaport World Trade
Center in Boston. Taking on Tomorrow will convene top global leaders in
pediatric health innovation including clinicians, scientists,
engineers, investors, and health care, industry and policy
executives, to exchange knowledge and ideas around the challenges
and opportunities in pediatric health care.
Taking on Tomorrow is an exciting opportunity for Boston
Childrens Hospital to foster collaboration across industries and
disciplines, academia and healthcare, even across borders and
oceans, says Sandra L. Fenwick, President and CEO, Boston
Childrens Hospital. If ever there was a time to work together on
creating the future, its now. And if ever there was a place to do
it, its here.
Program participants will include:
- Ezekiel (Zeke) Emanuel, MD, PhD, bioethicist and former health advisor to President Barack Obama
- Bill Taylor, co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company
- Zulfiqar Bhutta, MBBS, PhD, inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
- William A. Gahl, MD, PhD, Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
- Taha Kass-Hout, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer, FDA
- Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer at Merck and Company
- Nicholas Negroponte, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Lab
The main Summit program will feature five panel discussions on
topics including:
- Rare diseases - moderated by David Meeker, MD, CEO, Genzyme
- Mobile & digital health - moderated by Scott Kirsner, Innovation Economy columnist, The Boston Globe
- Predictive analytics & big data -- moderated by Tom Ashbrook, host of NPRs On Point
- Innovation acceleration - moderated by Naomi Fried, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Childrens Hospital
- CEO panel: opportunities and challenges facing pediatric hospitals - moderated by Mark Wietecha, President and CEO, Childrens Hospital Association
IBM is pleased to be the premiere sponsor of the 2014 Global
Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards, said Michael Rhodin, Senior
Vice President, IBM Watson Group. IBM has been a partner in
innovation with Boston Children's Hospital around OPENPediatics,
the worlds first social education platform; OP is transforming how
pediatric medicine is taught and practiced around the world.
At the Innovation Summit, IBM will join with Boston Childrens
and global healthcare thought leaders to promote collaboration and
innovation that improves pediatric care everywhere, he said.
Additional sponsors of this years event include Cerner
Corporation, Claritas Genomics, Genzyme, Life Technologies, and
Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Partners include the Massachusetts
Biotechnology Council, Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS), The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
(IHI), The Institute for Pediatric Innovation, National
Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), and Network for Excellence
in Health Innovation (NEHI). Media partners include the Boston
Business Journal, Bio-IT World, Clinical
Informatics News, MIT Technology Review and WBUR-90.9
FM (Bostons NPR News Station).
Registration for Taking on Tomorrow is now open. Visit: www.takingontomorrow.org to see the full conference agenda, list of speakers and to register.
Follow @BCH_Innovation on Twitter for news and updates on the summit and join the conversation using #PedInno14.
When:
Thursday, October 30, 2014
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 31, 2014
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where:
The Seaport World Trade Center
200 Seaport Blvd
Boston, MA 02210
For a media pass to the event, please contact: Keri Stedman, Boston Children's Hospital, 617-919-3110 or keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu .
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