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Future Topics

March 23rd Forum:
Implementing Technologies in Resource-Constrained Settings

Appropriate Technology Development in Low Resource Settings

SPEAKER: PATRICIA COFFEY, PHD, MPH
Social Scientist and Senior Program Officer, PATH, A Catalyst for Global Health

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MODERATOR: KRISTIAN OLSON, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Inpatient Clinical Educator, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Program Leader, Global Health Initiative, CIMIT

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Implementing Technologies in Disaster Settings

Catherine Laine SPEAKER: CATHERINE LAINÉ
Deputy Director, AIDG

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MODERATOR: ANJALI SASTRY, PHD
Senior Lecturer, System Dynamics, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Future Forum Topics

PLEASE NOTE: Speakers & topics in the distant future can change easily.
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3.30.10

Approaches to Assessing Comparative and Cost-effectiveness of Healthcare Technology

SPEAKERS:
NEIL LINDEMAN
BWH

JAY SCHNITZER
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC

CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
BWH

FREDERICK 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
Optogenetics - Probing the Brain with Light

SPEAKERS:

ARTO NURMIKKO
Brown University

STEPHANIE SZOBOTA
University of California, Berkeley

ANTOINE ADAMANTIDIS
Stanford University

ITAMAR KAHN
Harvard University

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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