2012 IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference Program

Thursday, October 4th

08:00 – 08:30	Registration
08:30 – 08:40	Opening Ceremony
	*Welcome Remarks*
	Bin He, Ph.D.
	Conference Chair
	Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Biomedical Engineering
	Director of Institute for Engineering in Medicine
	University of Minnesota
	William Heetderks, Ph.D.
	Director of Extramural Science Programs
	National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
	National Institutes of Health
	Lynn Preston
	Deputy Director
	Division of Engineering Education and Centers
	National Science Foundation
	*IEEE Life Sciences Initiative*
	Peter Staecker, Ph.D.
	President-Elect of IEEE
08:50 – 09:20	Keynote Lecture: “Convergence as the Third Revolution”
	Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D.
	Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine
	National Medal of Science Laureate
	Institute Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
09:20 – 11:30	Session 1: Brain Disorders and Nervous Systems
	Session Moderators:
	Grace Peng, Ph.D.
	Program Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH
	Bruce Wheeler, Ph.D.
	Professor and Acting Chair, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
09:20 – 09:40	Challenges and Opportunities in Restoring Function after Paralysis
	Hunter Peckham, Ph.D.
	Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering
	Executive Director of Institute for Functional Restoration
	Case Western Reserve University
09:40 – 10:00	Deep Brain Stimulation: Challenges and Opportunities
	Jerry Vitek, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor and Department Head of Neurology
	University of Minnesota
10:00 – 10:20	Grand Challenges in EEG based Brain-computer Interface
	Shangkai Gao
	Professor and Director of Neural Engineering
	Tsinghua University
	Chair of Biomedical Electronic Society of Chinese Institute of Electronics
10:20 – 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00	*Advances and Challenges in Bioelectromagnetics for Implantable Devices: Current and Future Applications*
	Gianlucca Lazzi, Ph.D.
	USTAR Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	University of Utah
11:00 – 11:30	Panel Discussion
11:30 – 12:30	Lunch break
12:30 – 14:20	Session 2: Heart Diseases and Cardiovascular Systems
	Session Moderators:
	Alfred Hero, Ph.D.
	R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering
	University of Michigan
	Andrew Laine, D.Sc.
	Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor and Chair
	Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
12:30 – 12:50	*Engineering Microvascular Networks for Therapeutic and in vitro Applications*
	Roger Kamm, Ph.D.
	Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Chair of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering
12:50 – 13:10	*Dynamic MR Cardiovascular Imaging: Opportunities and Challenges*
	Zhi-Pei Liang, Ph.D.
	Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	President of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
13:10 – 13:30	Regenerative Strategies for Repairing Cardiovascular and Lung Tissues
	Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesia
	Yale University
13:30 – 13:50	Challenges in Cardiovascular Health Informatics
	Yuan-Ting Zhang, Ph.D.
	Professor and Director of Joint Research Center on Biomedical Engineering
	Chinese University of Hong Kong
	Director of Key Lab for Health Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (HICAS) at SIAT
13:50 – 14:20	Panel Discussion
14:20 – 14:40	Coffee Break
14:40 – 15:10	Keynote Lecture: “Technological Innovation and Serving the Globe”
	Charles M. Vest, Ph.D.
	National Medal of Technology Laureate
	President, National Academy of Engineering
	President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15:10 – 16:50	Session 3: Education and Training
	Session Moderators:
	Richard Baird, Ph.D.
	Director, Division of Interdisciplinary Training, NIBIB, NIH
	Melur K. “Ram” Ramasubramanian, Ph.D.
	Clemson University
	Formerly Program Director-IGERT, National Science Foundation
15:10 – 15:30	Beating the Odds: Preparing Underrepresented Minorities for Research Careers in the Biomedical Sciences
	Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, Ph.D.
	President
	University of Maryland at Baltimore County
15:30 – 15:50	Convolving Aspects of Engineering and Medical Educations
	Raphael Lee, M.D., Sc.D.
	Paul and Allene Russell Professor of Surgery
	University of Chicago
	President of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
15:50 – 16:20	The NIH and NSF Answers to the Grand Challenges of Education and Training
	Richard A. Baird, Ph.D.
	Director, Division of Interdisciplinary Training
	National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
	National Institutes of Health
	Melur K. “Ram” Ramasubramanian, Ph.D.
	Clemson University
	Formerly Program Director-IGERT
	Division of Graduate Education
	National Science Foundation
16:20 – 16:50	Panel Discussion
	Panelists: Drs. Sharp, Vest, Hrabowski, Lee, Baird, Ramasubramanian
19:00 – 21:00	Welcome Reception (Conference Hotel)

Friday, October 5th

08:15 – 08:45	Keynote Lecture: “Engineering Medicine: Today’s Vision, Tomorrow’s Health Care”
	Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.
	Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
	National Institutes of Health
08:45 – 10:55	Session 4: Translation From Bench to Bedside
	Session Moderators:
	Antonio Sastre, Ph.D.
	Program Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH
	Nitish Thakor, Ph.D.
	Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
	Provost Chair Professor and Director of SINAPSE Institute, National Univ. of Singapore
08:45 – 09:05	Overcoming the Translational Barriers of Medical Robots
	Guang-Zhong Yang, Ph.D.
	Professor and Director of Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery
	Imperial College, London
09:05 – 09:25	*Virtual Prototyping Quickens Bench to Bedside*
	Arthur G. Erdman, Ph.D.
	Richard C. Jordan Professor and Director of Medical Devices Center
	University of Minnesota
09:25 – 09:45	*The Role of Regulatory Science in Medical Device Innovation*
	Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D.
	Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health
	US Food and Drug Administration
09:45 – 10:05	*Medical Device Partnerships and Collaboration Industry Perspectives*
	Randall L. Schiestl, PMP
	Vice President of Global Operations & Technology
	Boston Scientific Corporation
10:05 – 10:25	Regulatory Science: the Application of Scientific Principles for the Regulation of Medical Devices
	Robert E. Fischell, Sc.D.
	Chairman and CEO
	Fischell Biomedical, LLC
10:25 – 10:55	Panel Discussion
10:55 – 11:10	Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:20	Session 5: Cancer
	Session Moderators:
	Aniruddha Datta, Ph.D.
	J. W. Runyon, Jr. ’35 Professor of Electrical Engineering, Texas A & M University
	Kaiming Ye, Ph.D.
	Program Director, National Science Foundation
11:10 – 11:30	Emerging Strategies in Combating Cancer: Systematic Drug Repositioning and Label Free Molecular Imaging
	Stephen Wong, Ph.D.
	John S. Dunn Distinguished Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering
	Chair of Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering
	Methodist Hospital Research Institute
	Cornell University
11:30 – 11:50	*Microfluidics and Nanotechnology for Combating Cancer*
	Rashid Bashir, Ph.D.
	Abel Bliss Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering
	Co-Director, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:50 – 12:20	Panel Discussion
12:25 – 14:30	Working Lunch Small Group Discussion
14:30 – 15:30	Session 6: Reports from Group Discussions