Predictive Health Symposium 2008

A distinguished field of national healthcare leaders and biomedical scientists participated in the fourth annual Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Symposium December 15 and 16, 2008, in Atlanta. The symposium highlighted a new biomedical focus that integrates biology, behavior and environment, and emphasizes maintaining health rather than treating disease. The theme of the symposium was "Human Health: Molecules to Mankind."

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2008

Day 1 - December 15

Opening (2 min.)

Kenneth L. Brigham, MD
Associate Vice President for Predictive Health, Emory University

Welcome from Georgia Institute of Technology (5 min. 48 sec.)

Don Giddons, PhD
Dean, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Welcome from Emory University (6 min. 19 sec.)

James Wagner, PhD, President
Emory University

Woodruff Health Sciences Center Welcome (8 min. 48 sec.)

Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare

Lecture:
Genetic Tests Already Available for Common Diseases (1 hr. 27 min.)

Jeffrey A. Gulcher, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder, deCODE Genetics
Introduced by Allan Levey, MD, Chair of Neurology, Emory University

Lecture:
Pharmacogenomics: Predicting people-medical interactions (video unavailable)

Dan M. Roden, MD
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Personalized Medicine, Vanderbilt University
Introduced by Ken Brigham., MD

Lecture:
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: Onramp to Personal Healthcare (34 min.)

Sharon Fountaine Terry, MA
President and CEO, Genetic Alliance
Introduced by Sue Donaldson, PhD, Emory School of Nursing

Session 1 Introduction:
The Transformation of Biomedicine (2 min. 55 sec.)

Session Chair: Lydia Ogden, MA, MPP
Chief of Staff, Health Policy, Emory University

Lecture:
Optimized Personal Medicine: The Imperative of Restructuring Health Care Delivery (36 min.)

Kim Rask, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Policy, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Lecture:
Prospects for Real Health Reform (1 hr.)

Ken Thorpe, PhD
Woodruff Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Session 2 Introduction:
Measuring Health: Theory and Application (15 min.)

Session Chair: Dean Jones, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Emory University

Lecture:
The Health and Economic Benefits of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Assessing the ROI (35 min.)

Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD
Research Professor and Director, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Lecture:
Risk of Fracture: Applying Predictive Health Strategies to Improving Public Health (46 min.)

Rebecca Jackson, MD
Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Ohio State University

Wrap-up:
Lessons from Day 1 (14 min.)

Michael M.E. Johns, MD
Chancellor
Emory University

Day 2 - December 16

Opening

Kenneth L. Brigham, MD
Associate Vice President for Predictive Health, Emory University

Woodruff Health Sciences Center Welcome (3 min.)

Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare

Lecture:
Prospective Health Care: Putting Personalized Medicine Into Practice? (1 hr.)

Ralph A. Snyderman, MD
Founder, Proventys, Chancellor Emeritus, Duke University
Introduced by Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD

Session 1:
Defining the Problem: Delivery the Good

Session Chair: Don Giddons, PhD, Dean, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Lecture:
Understanding and Managing Complexity in the Health Care System (36 min.)

William B. Rouse, PhD
Tennenbaum Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology

Lecture:
The Riddle of the Southern Stroke Belt (38 min.)

Daniel T. Lackland, Dr. P.H.
Medical University of South Carolina

Lecture:
National Children's Health Study (26 min.)

Barbara J. Stoll, MD
Professor and Chair, Pediatrics
Emory University

Session 2 Introduction:
Metabolic Determinants of Health (11 min.)

Session Chair: R. Wayne Alexander, MD, PhD
Chair and Professor of Medicine, Emory University

Lecture:
Obesity: Is IT the Evil? (42 min.)

Ildiko Lingvay, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Internal Medical, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center @ Dallas

Lecture:
Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Genes or Lifestyle? (30 min.)

KM Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA
Hubert Professor, Global Health & Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Session 3 Introduction:
Predicting Health from Start to Finish and from N=1 to N=big (5 min. 31 sec.)

James Curran, MD, MPH
Dean and Professor of Public Health, Emory University

Lecture:
The Obesity Epidemic (44 min.)

Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH
Vice President for Global Health
Emory University

Lecture:
Can We Slow Down Aging? Should We?

Arlan G. Richardson, PhD
Director, Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
University of Texas Health Science Center

Wrap-up:
Lessons from Day 2

Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare

Last Update: 02/11/2009