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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Lodge, Skaneateles NY
Technologies Feature: NYS Centers of Excellence and Advanced Technology 

8:30
Technology Feature, Directors Election & Breakfast


9:00          Welcome and Membership Report

9:15          Research & Development and Demographics: Shaping the Biomedical Future

-Simon J. Tripp, Director Research & Planning, Battelle - Technology Partnership Practice

10:00       Positioning Today for Tomorrow’s Demand
 
- Laurent Giovangrandin, Ph.D., Acting Assistant PRofessor in Electrical Engineering, Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford University
 
10:45 Technology Feature & Break


11:15       Updates from the Federal Government and New York State
 
- Federal Policy, Litigation and Regulatory Report - Brent Del Monte, Vice President, Biotechnology Industry Organization

- Key Topics in New York State Business - Heather Briccetti, Vice President, Government Affairs, The Business Council of New York State

12:15       Luncheon Keynote:
                  "The Rising Demographic Tide – Is it a Tsunami for Health Care?"
 
-Wendy Everett, Sc.D., President, New England Healthcare Institute
 
1:15  Technology Feature & Lunch


1:30         Delivery Models and Access for Tomorrow
 
- Joseph L. Tenullo, JD, MPH, Associate Director, Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health and Vice President, Continua Health Alliance and Associate Director, Northeast Telehealth Resource Center

2:15         Creating Innovatibe Solutions for the Boomer Generation
 
- Udaya Patnaik, Principle, JUMP Associates

3:00
         The Medical Home: A new model for primary care?
 
- Bruce Kleaveland, PResident, Kleaveland Consulting


3:45 Technology Feature & Break


4:15
         Products in the Middle: The Payment Pinch
 
- Christine Maroulis Director of HEalth Economics and Reimbursement for ETHICON Women's Health & Urology at ETHICON, Inc., a dicision of Johnson & Johnson

5:00         Daily Medicine: 
             A panel exploring the changing paradigms of chronic illness
 
- George Ferguson, Research Scientist, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Rochester (moderator)
 
- Egan Allen, Clinical Instructor of Internal Medicine and MEdical Informatics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

- Victoria Hines, PResident & CEO, Visiting Nurse Service
 
- Geri Gay, Chair of the Department of Communication, Cornell University
 
- Gary Morrow, Associate Director for Community Research and Coordinator of Research Training, University of Rochester Cancer Center

5:45         Healthcare in the Wake of a New Environment
 
- John Zogby, President and CEO,, Zogby International

6:30         Closing Comments
 
6:45  Technology Feature & Reception Introducing University Leadership


*Agenda and speakers subject to change.