2015
The sixth annual GoldLab Symposium focuses on the scientific and the social components of health care. In addition to the usual interesting science, humor, clinical information, medical research, and quality-of-life issues, we once again come together to think, learn, and laugh in hopes that we can turn our discussions into actions for improving health care and healthy living for all.
Larry Gold serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Board of SomaLogic, and is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Neal Copeland received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Utah and carried out his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, where he met his long-time collaborator and wife, Nancy Jenkins. After their postdoctoral training, they moved to The Jackson Laboratory where they were associate staff scientists.
Bill Robinson is a Professor of Medicine and the Rifkin Endowed Chair for Cancer Research at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus.
Wendy Sue Swanson is a pediatrician, the executive director of Digital Health, and author of the Seattle Mama Doc Blog for Seattle Children’s Hospital.
John L. Rinn is the Alvin and Esta Star Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, and senior associate member of the Broad Institute.
Barry Levy, M.D., M.P.H., completed an internal medicine residency at University Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and a preventive medicine residency at the Centers for Disease Control. He is board-certified in internal medicine and occupational medicine.
Greg LaGana, M.D., completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Harlem Hospital and is board-certified in internal medicine
Robin Deterding is a tenured professor of pulmonary medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Children's Hospital Colorado.
Jandel Allen-Davis, MD, is vice president of Government, External Relations and Research for Kaiser Permanente Colorado. She leads the organization’s community relations, communications, advertising and marketing functions, stakeholder engagement, government relations, clinical research activities and community benefit investment.
Leslie Greengard is the director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis, at the Simons Foundation, and a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Courant Institute of New York University, where he served as the director from 2006-2011.
Paul Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies, president of the Center for Conservation Biology, at Stanford University, and adjunct professor at University of Technology, Sydney. His research is in population biology, which includes ecology, evolutionary biology, behavior, human ecology, and cultural evolution.
After a brief career in television comedy, Daniel Klein began writing books, ranging from thrillers and mysteries to humorous books about philosophy, including the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes.
Thomas Cathcart spent most of his career in health care, including serving as chief operating officer of a hospital and directing a boarding home for people with HIV/AIDS.
Matt Might is an active advisor to the newly established Undiagnosed Disease Network Coordinating Center at Harvard University. He is passionate about patient-driven precision medicine, accelerating drug development in rare disease, and bending the cost curve in medical research with computation and social media.
Yvonne Kobayashi is a principal research scientist at Eli Lilly & Company and came to the Mobility & Metabolism Division at the end of 2012.
Michael J. Joyner, M.D., is the Caywood Professor of Anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic where he was named distinguished investigator in 2010. His interests include exercise physiology, blood pressure, metabolism, and transfusion practices.
Harriet Warshaw is the executive director of The Conversation Project, a public engagement campaign dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.
Matt Fitzgerald is a writer specializing in the topics of endurance sports, fitness, and diet. He has authored or co-authored twenty-two books, including Racing Weight, Diet Cults, and Iron War.
Anna Marie Pyle is the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, professor of chemistry at Yale University, and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Marc Feldmann is a professor at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. He trained in medicine at Melbourne University and then earned a Ph.D. in Immunology at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute with Sir Gus Nossal.
Dr. Cech was raised and educated in Iowa (B.A. in chemistry from Grinnell College, 1970). He obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
After a brief career in television comedy, Daniel Klein began writing books, ranging from thrillers and mysteries to humorous books about philosophy, including the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes.
Thomas Cathcart spent most of his career in health care, including serving as chief operating officer of a hospital and directing a boarding home for people with HIV/AIDS.