2011
The Dalliance with Improved Healthcare
The 2011 probed both the acute/common and rare/neglected diseases that strip us of health, imagined the tsunami of diseases that are amassing for invasion at our borders, looked at the growing empowerment of groups of patients banding together to help themselves using the internet, and analyzed the possible impact of patent law and large data bases to restore urgency to the dialogue.
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Opening Remarks 2011
Larry Gold serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Board of SomaLogic, and is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Health and Medical Problems Everywhere
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The Thousand Dollar Genome
Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Bio-IT World and Nature Genetics, and the author of The $1,000 Genome (Free Press, 2010), an account of the revolution in DNA sequencing technologies, personal genomics, and personalized medicine.
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Cardiovascular Disease and Drug Discovery
Richard Lawn received a B.A. degree in Astronomy from Harvard College and a Ph.D. degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado.
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Transforming Prenatal Care: Personalized Medicine Begins in the Womb
Dr. Susan Fisher is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
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Large Systems and Their Integration
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Before It Strikes: Viral Forecasting For Pandemic Prevention
Dr. Nathan Wolfe is an epidemiologist who fights disease pandemics with an unprecedented early warning system to forecast, pinpoint and control new plagues worldwide before they kill millions.
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Computational Bridges over the Chasms between Science, Medicine and Health
Dr. Lawrence Hunter is the Director of the University of Colorado’s Computational Bioscience Program and a Professor of Pharmacology (School of Medicine) and Computer Science (Boulder).
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A Curious Collision: Innovation vs. Patent Protection in Health Care
Steve Morrissett is a trial lawyer in the Palo Alto, California, office of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, a law firm that practices exclusively intellectual property law.
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Healthcare on the Ground: New Challenges for Physicians
Ruth Crowe was trained as a physician-scientist at NYU School of Medicine and received residency and Hematology-Oncology fellowship training at Cornell University Medical College.
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Patient Driven Real Time Outcome Management and Research
An MIT engineer, Jamie entered the field of translational research and medicine when his brother Stephen was diagnosed with ALS at age 29.
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Neglected Diseases
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Neglected Diseases are All of Us
Rick Guidotti, an award-winning fashion photographer, has spent the past fourteen years working internationally with advocacy organizations/NGOs, medical schools, universities and other educational institutions to effect a sea-change in societal attitudes towards individuals living with genetic difference.
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Huntington’s as a Metaphor and a Serious Disease
David Housman has been engaged in work on genetic diseases since 1970. He received his PhD at Brandeis University in 1971.
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Rare and Neglected Diseases: The Time is Now!
Sharon F. Terry is President and CEO of the Genetic Alliance. She is the founding CEO of PXE International, a research & advocacy organization for the genetic condition pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), a condition that affects her two children.
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Men, Women, Sex, and Power – How Health, Confidence and Pleasurable Living Support Sexual Desire
Evelyn Resh is a certified sexuality counselor, nurse-midwife, author and speaker. She frequently speaks and writes about sexual health and satisfaction and mother-daughter relationships.
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Healthcare Delivery
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The Problems, Premise, and Promise of Personalized Oncology
Training: Medical degree with honors from the University of West Indies; Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar); MA Physiology. Internal medicine residency Mayo Clinic.
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Molecular Diagnosis and Prognosis for Cancers
Gilbert Omenn is Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health and Director of the Center for Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics and the Proteomics Alliance for Cancer Research at the University of Michigan.
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Psychiatry: Is It Different? If So, How?
Don Kripke was born in Schenectady, NY, and raised in Washington, D.C. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in Philosophy in 1963. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he received his M.D. degree in 1967.
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How We Learn… and How We Don’t
Robert Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning.
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The Coming Worldwide Epidemic of Neurological Disorders, and What We’re Doing About It
Gregory A. Petsko is Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where from 1994 to 2008 he served as Director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center.
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Contact Info
Gold Lab
University of Colorado Boulder
347 UCB Boulder, CO 80309Tel: (303) 735-7112
Email: info@goldlabfoundation.org
