"The shifts in the financial markets, international forces and the 2008 election will have enormous impact on the future of new technology in healthcare. The Medical Innovation Summit provides unrivaled insights, exceptional networking and actionable takeaways for anyone who cares about medical innovation."
- Tim Ring, CR Bard
Past Speakers include:
CEOS of GE, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Abbott, AstraZeneca, Amgen, Boston Scientific, 3M, Medtronic and Edwards Lifesciences; partners from top venture firms, heads of Government agencies and top clinicians.
IN MEMORIAM
Andrew C. Novick, MD
1948 - 2008


Cleveland, Ohio  |  InterContinental Hotel & Bank of America Conference Center

Past Summits

2007   |   2006    |    2005    |    2004    |    2003

2006 LIST OF SPEAKERS:

  • Eric Bailey, Co-Founder, NeuroLogica
  • Robert Bazell, Chief Health and Science Correspondent, NBC
  • Aaron Berez, MD, CEO, Chestnut Medical
  • Arani Bose, MD, Department of Radiology, NYU Medical Center
  • Chris Chavez, CEO, ANS/St. Jude
  • Gary Curtis, CEO, Concentric Medical
  • Ryan Drant, General Partner, NEA
  • Senator David Durenberger, (R-Minn) Retired
  • Andrew Firlik, M.D., Partner, Foundation Medical Partners
  • Robert Fischell, Chairman, Fischell Biomedical, LLC
  • Frank Fischer, CEO, NeuroPace
  • Sid Gilman, MD, University Professor of Neurology, University of Michigan
  • Larry Glasscock, CEO, Wellpoint
  • Jeff Greiner, Co-CEO, Advanced Bionics
  • Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Senior Medical Correspondent Health and Medical Unit, CNN
  • John Harris, CEO, BioNeuronics
  • David Holveck, President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
  • Jeffrey Immelt, CEO, General Electric
  • Peter Kingma, Vice President of Molecular Imaging, Siemens Medical Solutions
  • Rick Kuntz, M.D., President of Neurological Businesses, Medtronic
  • Ray Kurzweil, Futurist, Inventor, 1999 National Medal of Technology recipient
  • Joseph Lacob, Partner, Kleiner Perkins
  • Paul Leber, MD, Director, Neuro-Pharm Group, LLC
  • Alan Levy, Ph.D., CEO, Northstar Neuroscience
  • Rodney Pearlman, Ph.D., CEO, Saegis Pharmaceuticals
  • Stanley Prusiner, M.D., 1997 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, UCSF
  • Roger Quy, Ph.D., General Partner, Technology Partners
  • Harry Rein, Partner, Foundation Medical Partners
  • Bob Roll, Author, OLN correspondent, 4-time Tour de France rider
  • Allen Roses, MD, Senior Vice President, Genetics Research, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Thomas Stewart, Editor, Harvard Business Review
  • Timothy Surgenor, CEO, Cyberkinetics
  • James Tobin, Boston Scientific
  • Ron Williams, CEO, Aetna

2006 AGENDA:

Monday, November 6, 2006
1:00 - 8:00 P.M. Registration
2:00 P.M. Exhibits Open - Light Refreshments
2nd and 3rd Floors
4:00 - 4:05 P.M. Welcome Delos Cosgrove, M.D.
CEO & President, Cleveland Clinic
4:05 - 4:15 P.M. Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute Introduction

Michael Modic, MD
Interim Chairman, Neurological Institute
Chairman, Division of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic
4:15 - 5:20 P.M. Future Technology
  • Ray Kurzweil, Futurist and Inventor
  • Allen Roses, M.D., Senior Vice President, Genetics Research, GlaxoSmithKline
5:20 - 6:00 P.M. Innovation, Reimbursement and New Technology in Healthcare
Discussion Moderated by Thomas Stewart

Editor, Harvard Business Review
  • Ron Williams, CEO, Aetna
6:00 - 6:30 P.M.

Innovation, Technology, Patient Care and Reimbursement: “Presidents’ Perspective”
Moderated by: Richard Ellenbogen, MD, FACS,

President, Congress of Neurological Surgeons

  • Joshua Prager, MD, President, North American Neuromodulation Society
  • Elliot Krames, MD, President, International Neuromodulation Society
6:45 - 10:00 P.M. Opening Reception and Dinner
Prelude Concert by Members of the Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall
Transportation Provided

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
6:30 A.M – 2:00 P.M. Registration
6:30 – 7:30 A.M. Continental Breakfast
7:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Exhibits Open
2nd and 3rd Floors
7:30 A.M. Welcome
Christopher Coburn
Executive Director, CCF Innovations, Cleveland Clinic
7:30 – 9:00 A.M.

Live Surgeries: Neuromodulation
Moderated by: Ali Rezai, M.D., Chairman, Center for Neurological Restoration; Director, Brain Neuromodulation Center, Cleveland Clinic

9:00 – 9:45 A.M. Managing Costs: Next Steps from Washington
Introduction by Robert Bazell, NBC News’ Chief Health and Science Correspondent
  • Senator David Durenberger (R-Minn), Retired
9:45 – 10:30 A.M. Managing Costs: Private Sector Trends
Introduction by Robert Bazell, NBC News’ Chief Health and Science Correspondent
  • Larry Glasscock, CEO, Wellpoint
10:30 – 10:45 A.M. Break
10:45 A.M. – 12:15 P.M. Neuromodulation: Breakthrough Therapy for Refractory
Disease

Moderated by: Ali Rezai, M.D., Chairman, Center for Neurological Restoration; Director, Brain Neuromodulation Center, Cleveland Clinic
  • Chris Chavez, CEO, ANS, St. Jude Medical
  • Jeff Greiner, Co-CEO, Advanced Bionics
  • Rick Kuntz, M.D., President of Neurological Businesses, Medtronic
  • Alan Levy, PhD, CEO, Northstar Neuroscience
  • Timothy Surgenor, CEO, Cyberkinetics
12:30 – 2:00 P.M. Lunch - Founder's Ballroom
How to Fix a Guidant: Realizing the Potential of a Strategic Acquisition
Introduction by Mike O’Boyle
, Chief Operating Officer, Cleveland Clinic
  • James Tobin, President & CEO, Boston Scientific
2:15 – 3:30 P.M. “Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2007”
Moderated by Marc Penn, M.D., Ph.D.,
Director, Bakken Heart-Brain Institute, Cleveland Clinic
3:30 – 4:00 P.M. Break
4:00 – 5:00 P.M. Neuro-Imaging: Shifting the Foundation of Disease
Recognition and Management

Moderated by Michael Modic, M.D.
, Interim Chairman, Neurological Institute; Chairman, Division of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic
  • Micheal Phillips, M.D., Section Head, Section of Imaging Sciences, Cleveland Clinic
  • Eric Bailey, Co-Founder, NeuroLogica
  • Arani Bose, M.D., Department of Radiology, NYU Medical Center
  • Aaron Berez, M.D., CEO, Chestnut Medical
  • Peter Kingma, Vice President of Molecular Imaging, Siemens Medical Solutions
5:00 – 6:00 P.M. Perspectives from the Frontiers of Science
Moderated by Bruce Trapp, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic
  • Stanley Prusiner, M.D., 1997 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
6:00 – 7:00 P.M. Welcome Reception
7:00 P.M. Dinner - Founder's Ballroom
“Diagnosing the Undetectable Through Technology Convergence”
Jeffrey Immelt
CEO and Chairman of the Board, General Electric
Introduction by Delos M. Cosgrove, M.D.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
6:30 – 9:00 A.M. Registration
6:45– 7:45 A.M. Continental Breakfast
7:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Exhibits Open
2nd and 3rd Floors
7:45 – 8:45 A.M. Live Surgeries: Cerebrovascular Aneurysms
Moderated by: Thomas Masaryk, M.D., Head of Neuroradiology, Cleveland Clinic
8:45 – 10:15 A.M. Neuroscience, Entrepreneurship and Venture Investing
Moderated by Harry Rein, General Partner, Foundation Medical Partners
  • John Harris, President & CEO, BioNeuronics
  • Andrew Firlik, M.D., Partner, Foundation Medical Partners
  • Frank Fischer, CEO, NeuroPace
  • Joseph Lacob, Partner, Kleiner Perkins
  • Rodney Pearlman, Ph.D., CEO, Saegis Pharmaceuticals
  • Roger Quy, Ph.D., General Partner, Technology Partners
  • Gary Curtis, CEO, Concentric Medical
  • Ryan Drant, General Partner, NEA
10:15 – 10:40 A.M. Break
10:40 - 10:45 A.M. Canyon Ranch Health Resort Giveaway
Donna Brammer, Sales Manager, Canyon Ranch
10:45 A.M. – 12:15 P.M. Developing Interventions in Neurodegenerative Disease
Moderated by Richard Rudick, M.D.,
Director, Mellen Center, Department of Neurology; Chairman, Division of Clinical Research, Cleveland Clinic
  • Sid Gilman, M.D., University Professor of Neurology, University of Michigan
  • Paul Leber, M.D., Director, Neuro-Pharm Group, LLC
  • Alastair JJ Wood, M.D., Managing Director, Symphony Capital
12:15 – 1:45 P.M. Lunch - Founder's Ballroom
Implication of Care Pathways on Technology Adoption
Introduction by Sanjay Gupta, M.D., CNN, Senior Medical Correspondent
  • David Holveck, Vice President, Corporate Development, Johnson & Johnson
Enterprise Ireland – Trip for 2 Giveaway
Sean McEllin, Regional Vice President, Enterprise Ireland
1:45 – 2:00 P.M. Adjournment
2:15– 3:15 P.M. Special Bonus Add-On

“Neurosciences and The Tour de France”
  • Bob Roll, Author, OLN Correspondent & 4-Time Tour De France rider
  • Jeff Spencer, DC, EFX, Inc.
  • Anthony Miniaci, M.D., FRCS(C), Executive Director, Sports Health, Cleveland Clinic

2006 News & Media

November 28, 2006  Reuters
Scientists harness mysteries of the brain
A young woman, confined to a wheelchair, is told to think about moving another wheelchair in front of her, first to the left and then forward.

November 13, 2006  Medical Device Daily
Neurotechnology development treads tougher VC funding path
As the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit began to wind down last week, the promise of the neuroscience field was tempered with the realization that someone has to pay to develop all of these future and very enticing technologies.

November 13, 2006  Reuters
Cleveland Clinic Unveils Top 10 Medical Innovations for '07
Last week, Cleveland Clinic announced its first-ever Top 10 Medical Innovations list, highlighting technologies that will likely have a big impact on healthcare in 2007.

November 13, 2006  Crain's Cleveland Business
Cooperation a must to restrain health costs
The government and public and private entities will need to work together to reduce skyrocketing health care costs and the number of uninsured Americans.

November 10, 2006  Medical Device Daily
Clinic unveils 'Top Ten' list of medical innovations for 2007
As an interesting addition this year to its Innovation Summit, the Cleveland Clinic unveiled the first of what promises to be an annual “Top Ten” list of what it predicts as the most promising medical innovations in the coming year.

November 10, 2006  The Daily Record
Real surgeries, amazing results
"This is really neat stuff you're about to see," Cleveland Clinic Wooster gastroenterologist James Murphy told a group of students privileged to observe live surgeries performed by internationally recognized Cleveland Clinic surgeons.

November 9, 2006  Medical Device Daily
As in cardiology, implantable' is wave of neuromodulation future
Within the promising early-stage realm of neuroscience, one area of particular interest for physicians, patients and investors is undoubtedly implantable neuromodulation devices.

November 8, 2006  Medical Device Daily
Clinic targets changing medicine via new Neurological Institute
As the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit got underway this week, this top-tier medical and research facility wasted no time in getting to the topic that was to be a primary one at this fourth annual event — the field of neuroscience.

November 7, 2006  Reuters
Ten emerging technologies will shape healthcare next year, hospital predicts
Cleveland Clinic today announced its first-ever Top 10 Medical Innovations list, highlighting technologies which will likely have a big impact on healthcare in 2007.

November 7, 2006  The Plain Dealer
Cancer vaccines top innovation list at Clinic
Cancer vaccines will have the biggest impact on health care in 2007, a panel of Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists predicts.

November 7, 2006  Medical Device Daily
Meeting set to spotlight the embryonic neurology field
According to Chris Coburn, executive director of CCF Innovations— the technology transfer and commercialization arm of the Cleveland Clinic— this year’s Innovation Summit, which is focusing on the neurology market, was not as easy a sell as the past three conferences have been.

November 6, 2006  The Plain Dealer
Conference blends business, medicine
The Cleveland Clinic is convening more than 800 medical and business professionals on its campus today to talk about developing, investing in and paying for medical devices and therapies related to the brain.