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Thought Leaders' Workshop
March 31 & April 1, 2004

Letting the Home Interface with the Healthcare System
New Paradigms for Consumers and Providers

Agenda -- Location: University of Rochester Medical Center

Wednesday, March 31:
Future State - Current State - Gaps
7:45 am Shuttles from the Marriott Courtyard-Brighton to the lobby entrance of the School of Medicine & Dentistry
8:15 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome & Our Strategic Framework for the Workshop
Philippe Fauchet, PhD, Director, Center for Future Health
Alice Pentland, MD, Medical Director, Center for Future Health
9:15 am National Security & The Social Impact of Health Care Economics
Charles Phelps, PhD, Provost, University of Rochester
9:40 am Keynote 1: Doctors Can't Do It Alone: Clinical Guidance Systems
Richard Rockefeller, MD, EdM; President, Health Commons Institute; Chairman, Doctors Without Borders
10:00 am Keynote 2: Consumer Perspectives on Aging Well: What Consumers Worry About
Roberta Milman, Vice President, AARP Services, Inc.
10:20 am Break
10:45 am Keynote 3: Challenges in the Health@Home Business Environment
Pramod Gaur, President, Viterion TeleHealthcare (Click for more information on Viterion)
11:05 am Keynote 4: Inventing Wellness: The Need for R&D Partnerships to Prepare for the Worldwide Age Wave
Eric Dishman, Director of Proactive Health, Intel Corporation & Co-chair Center for Aging Services Technologies, AAHSA
11:30 am Keynote 5: Aging Well - Research Challenges
Philippe Fauchet, PhD, Chair, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Director, Center for Future Health
12:00 pm Team Lunch
1:00 pm Keynote 6: Letting the Home Interface with the Health Care System
Alice Pentland, MD, Chair, Dept. of Dermatology;
Medical Director, Center for Future Health
1:20 pm University Research
Assessing Neuromusuloskeletal Function Through Gait Monitoring
Michel J. Berg, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center
Experiences of Older Adults with Aging in Place Technologies
Elizabeth Mynatt, PhD, Director, Aware Home Research Initiative; Associate Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Continuous, Quantitative Characterization of Behavior Using Wearable Computing
Alex Pentland, PhD, Director, Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media Laboratory
Intelligent Unobtrusive Sensing for the Assessment of Cognitive Function
Misha Pavel, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Sciences University
The Impact of Health e-Technology on the Management of Congestive Heart Failure Home Patients
Craig Lehmann, PhD, School of Health Technology and Management, Helath Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
2:50 pm Break
3:10 pm Corporate Research
Advanced Technology for Ambulatory Monitoring Health, Disease and Medical Intervention in the Real World
J. Douglas Studenbaker, Sr. Vice President, Academic Research, VivoMetrics, Inc.
Dynamic Home Rehabilitation - Optimizing Post-Acute Health Care
Walter Greenleaf, MD, President, Greenleaf Medical Systems
Experimental Study of the Effect of Images on Emotional State
Elena Fedorovskaya, PhD, and Serguie Endrikhovski, PhD, Researchers, Eastman Kodak Company
Independent Lifestyle Assistant
Thomas Plocher, MS, STaff Scientist, Honeywell Automation & Control Systems Laboratory
GE Home Assurance: Technology Allowing People to Live Healthy Independent Lives
Paul Cuddihy, Project Leader, Advanced Computing Technology, GE Global Research
Home Healthcare: Supporting Continuity of Care
Lena Mamykina, Human Factors Specialist, User Interface Design Center, Siemens Corporate Research
Driving Technology Solutions for the Upcoming Aging Crisis
Russell Bodoff, Executive Director, Center for Aging Services Technology
4:20 pm Round 1 Strategic Framework Team Work Starts
Team Reports due 8am:
Current State, Future State, Early Understanding of Gaps, and Enablers

Poster and Demo Sessions as Workshop Input
6:15 pm Shuttle to Mario's Via Abruzzi, 2740 Monroe Avenue
6:45 pm Reception (Ballroom C)
7:30 pm Awards Dinner (Ballrooms B&C)

Thursday, April 1:
Barriers and Actions
7:10 am Shuttles from Marriott Courtyard-Brighton
7:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am Strategic Framework Round 1: Group Reports
Current State, Future State, Early Understanding of Gaps, and Enablers
9:00 am Insurer's Role in Supporting Research for Prevention and Early Detection
Wayne S. Rawlins, MD; National Medical Director for Clinical Strategic Initiatives, Aetna
9:25 am Wrestling with Innovation
Chris Vojta, MD; VP of Business Development and Medical Services, Ovations (Division of UnitedHealth Group)
9:50 am Funding Panel: Challenges and Opportunities
David Ahern, PhD, National Program Director, Health e-Technologies Initiative, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Staff, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Christopher Currens, MBA, Program Manager, NIST Advanced Technology Programs, U.S. Department of Commerce

Linda Harris, PhD, Senior Health Communications Scientist, Health Communications and Informatics Research Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences Organizations, National Cancer Institute

Dena S. Puskin, Sc.D., Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Strategic Framework Round 2: Group Meetings & Reports
Gaps, Barriers, Actions to Close Gaps
12:15 pm Synthesize Action Items and Next Steps
Philippe Fauchet, PhD, Director, Center for Future Health

Alice Pentland, MD, Medical Director, Center for Future Health
12:30 pm Networking Lunch
12:30 pm Shuttles to airport begin. Shuttles at 12:30, 1:00, and 1:30.

Last Updated: April 12, 2004

 

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