Previous Speakers

Keynote CEO Speakers

3M
George Buckley (2007)

Abbott Laboratories
Miles White (2003)

Aetna
Ron Williams (2006)

Amgen
Kevin Sharer (2004)

AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals

Tony Zook (2007)

Battelle
Carl Kohrt, PhD (2003)

Baxter Healthcare
Harry Kraemer, Jr. (2003)

BD
Edward Ludwig (2003)

Beckman Coulter
John Wareham (2003)

Biomet
Dane Miller, PhD (2003, 2005)

Boston Scientific
James Tobin (2004, 2006, 2008)

C.R. Bard
Timothy Ring (2003, 2004, 2008)

Cardinal Health
Kerry Clark (2007)
Robert Walter (2004)

Citi
Robert Rubin (2008)

Cook Medical
Bill Cook (2007)

Cordis
Guy LeBeau (2004)

Edwards Lifesciences
Michael Mussallem (2003, 2004, 2007)

Eli Lilly
Sidney Taurel (2007)

GE Healthcare
John Dineen (2008)
Joseph Hogan (2005)

General Electric
Jeffrey Immelt (2006))

Guidant
Ronald Dollens (2004))

Invacare
Malachi Mixon (2003, 2004)

Johnson & Johnson
William Weldon (2003)

Medtronic
Arthur Collins (2003, 2004)
William Hawkins (2007)

Philips Medical Solutions
Jouko Karvinen (2003)

Siemens Medical Solutions
Erich Reinhardt (2003, 2004)

Smith & Nephew
Sir Christopher O’Donnell (2005)

STERIS
Les Vinney (2003)

Stryker Corporation
John Brown (2003)
Stephen MacMillan (2005)

UnitedHealth Group
Stephen Hemsley (2007)

Wellpoint
Larry Glasscock (2006)

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Network Correspondents

Thalia Assuras
CBS (2008)

Robert Bazell
NBC (2006)

Barnaby Feder
The New York Times (2007)

Sanjay Gupta, MD
CNN (2006)

Michael Huckman
CNBC (2008)

Timothy Johnson, MD
ABC News (2007)

Larry King
CNN (2007)

Michael McCurry
Public Strategies Washington (2007)

Richard Roth
CNN (2008)

Joanne Silberner
NPR (2007)

Steve Sternberg
USA Today (2007)

Thomas Stewart
Harvard Business Review (2006)

Ron Winslow
Wall Street Journal (2003)

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Venture Investors

Olav Bergheim
Domain Associates (2004)

Michael Berman
Berman Medical (2007)

Jim Broderick, MD
Morgenthaler Ventures (2004)

Samuel Colella
Versant Ventures (2003)

Brian Dovey
Domain Associates (2003)

Ryan Drant
New Enterprise Associates (2006)

Richard Emmit
Vertical Group (2008)

Richard Ferrari
DeNovo Ventures (2007)

Andrew Firlik, MD
Foundation Medical
Partners (2006, 2007)

Tom Fogarty, MD
Three Arch Partners (2003)

Jan Garfinkle
Arboretum Ventures (2008)

Michael Greeley
Flybridge Capital Partners (2008)

William Harrington, MD
Three Arch Partners (2007)

Alan Kaganov, ScD
US Venture Partners (2005)

David Holveck
J&J Development
Corporation (2006)

Ed Kania
Flagship Ventures (2007)

Keith Kerman, MD
Primus Venture Partners (2003)

Joseph Lacob
Kleiner Perkins (2006)

Jack Lasersohn
Vertical Group (2003)

Dana Mead
Kleiner Perkins (2008)

William Mulligan
Primus Venture Partners (2005)

Roger Quy, PhD
Technology Partners (2006)

Harry Rein
Foundation Medical
Partners (2003-2008)

David Stassen
Split Rock Partners (2005)

Elizabeth Weatherman
Warburg Pincus (2005)

Alastair JJ Wood, MCChB
Symphony Capital (2006)

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Technology & Government Leaders

Clayton Christensen
Harvard Business School (2004)

Francis Collins, MD, PhD
NIH (2003)

Lester Crawford, DVM, PhD
FDA (2004)

David Durenberger
Former Senator,
Minnesota (2006)

Juan Enriquez
Biotechonomy (2004)

Newt Gingrich
Former Speaker
of the House (2005)

Scott Gottlieb, MD
FDA

Larry Keeley
Doblin (2008)

Ray Kurzweil
Futurist & Inventor (2006)

Mark McClellan. MD, PhD
FDA (2003, 2004)

Elizabeth Nabel, MD
NIH (2007)

Dean Ornish, MD
PMRI (2007)

Michael Porter
Harvard Business School (2005)

Stanley Prusiner, MD
Nobel Laureate (2006)

Thomas Scully
Center for Medicare/
Medicaid Services (2003)

Tommy Thompson
Former Governor, Wisconsin
and U.S. DHHS Secretary (2008)

Ron Wyden
United States Senator,
D-Oregon (2008)

Craig Wynett
P&G (2008)

Secretary William Cohen
Former Secretary of Defense

Bob Taft
Governor of Ohio

Bram Zuckerman, MD
FDA

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Additional Distinguished Leaders

John Abele
Boston Scientific

Manar Al-Moneef, MD
SAGIA Health and Life Science

David L. Amrani, PhD
Baxter Healthcare

Anthony Atala, MD
Tengion

Eric Bailey
NeuroLogica

Pamela G. Bailey
AdvaMed

Gary Becker, PhD
University of Chicago/
Nobel Laureate

Aaron Berez, MD
Chestnut Medical

Jeffrey Binder
Abbott Spine, Vice President,
Abbott

Glen Bolger
Public Opinion Strategies

Frank Bonadio
Advanced Surgical Concepts

Arani Bose, MD
NYU Medical Center

Samuel Broder, MD
Celera

John Capek, PhD
Abbott

Ken Charhut
Orqis Medical

Chris Chavez
ANS/St. Jude

Sidney Cohen, MD, PhD
Cordis/Conor Medsystems

Sheryl Conley
Global Products Group,
Zimmer

Mike Connolly
Mirabilis

Charlie Cook
The Cook Political Report

Michael J. Coyle
St. Jude Medical,
Cardiac Rhythm Management

David Cox, MD, PhD
Perlegen

Gary Curtis
Concentric Medical

Col. William C. DeVries MD
Walter Reed Army
Medical Center

Michael Dormer
Medical Devices,
Johnson & Johnson

Dave Drachman
AtriCure

Steven Ek
Arthrosurface

Martin Emerson
Galil Medical

Robert Fischell
Fischell Biomedical, LLC

Frank Fischer
NeuroPace

Thomas J. Fogerty MD
Co-Founder & Senior Partner,
Three Arch Partners

Judah Folkman, MD
Harvard University

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Bruce German
Nestle Research Center

Sid Gilman, MD
University of Michigan

Jeff Greiner
Advanced Bionics

Andre Guay, MD
Center for Sexual Function

Eric Halvorson
Olympus America

John Harris
BioNeuronics

Waleed Hassanein, MD
TransMedics

George N. Hatsopoulos PhD
Pharos, Thermo Electron

Steven Healy
Disc Dynamics

Nicolaus Henke
McKinsey

Gary Henley
Orthofix, Inc.

Chris Jennings
Jennings Policy Strategies

Anthony N. Kalloo, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital

John Kelly, PhD
IBM

Tom Kelly, PhD
Enterprise Ireland

Peter Kingma
Siemens Medical Solutions

Peter Klemm, PhD
Predictive Biosciences

Caroline A. Kovac PhD
IBM Life Sciences

Harry M Kraemer Jr.
Baxter

Rick Kuntz, MD
Medtronic

John Kurhanewicz, PhD, UCSF
Mission Bay

James Kuras
Axiomed

Bonnie Labosky
Cardiac Concepts

Paul Leber, MD
Neuro-Pharm Group, LLC

Woojin Lee, MD
CambridgeEndo

LeRoy LeNarz, MD
Medtronic Cardiovascular

Stephen Levin
FDC/Windhover

Alan Levy, PhD
Northstar Neuroscience

Karen Licitra
Johnson & Johnson

Helmut Link
Waldermar Link

Mark LoGuidice
Spine Wave

Ross Longhini
AMS

P. Richard Lunsford
Acorn Cardiovascular

Eric Major
K2M

Richard L. Marrapese
Ernst & Young Healthcare
and Life Sciences Practices

Lisa Martinez, RN
Women's Sexual
Health Foundation

Charles L. McIntosh MD PhD
Cook Group

Joan Meyer, PhD
P&G Pharmaceuticals

Jeffrey Miller
Hewlett-Packard Company

Thomas Miller
Siemens Medical Solutions
Health Services

Randall Mills, PhD
Osiris

Michael Mogul
Stryker Orthopaedics

Fred Moll, MD
Hansen Medical

Scott W. Morrison
Ernst & Young Healthcare
and Life Sciences Practices

Richard Mott
Kyphon

Roger S. Newton PhD
Esperion Therapeutics

Peter Neupert
Microsoft

Steve Oesterle, MD
Medtronic

Rodney Pearlman, PhD
Saegis Pharmaceuticals

Patricia Perry
Intel

Gregory Piskun, MD
Pnavel Systems

Christine Poon
Johnson & Johnson

Kerry Pope
Novare Surgical Systems

Ferolyn Powell
Evalve

Kevin Quilty
Endocare

Richard Randall
TranS1

John Rewcastle, PhD
EDAP TMS

Ronald Riner, MD
The Riner Group

David Robinson, MD
Ethicon Women's Health
and Urology

George P. Rodgers, MD, FACC
Biophysical Corporation

Bob Roll, OLN
4-time Tour de France rider

F. David Rollo, MD, PhD
Philips Medical Systems

Allen Roses, MD
Genetics Research,
GlaxoSmithKline

Bill R. Sanford
STERIS; BioEnterprise

Eric Schadt, PhD
Rosetta Inpharmatics

Kevin Sidow
St. Francis Medical
Technologies

Alfred Spector
Google

David Steinhaus, MD
Medtronic

Timothy Surgenor
Cyberkinetics

James M. Sweeney
Cardionet

Karen Talmadge, PhD
Kyphon

Michael Tarnoff, MD
Surgical Devices Global
Business Unit

Stephen Ubl
AdvaMed

Wulf Utian, MD, PhD
North American Menopause
Society

Clement Vidal
EndoControl

Kobi Vortman, MD
InSightec

Raymond P. Warrell Jr. MD
Genta

Michael C. Wiemann, MD
St. John Health

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