2015
The Tug of War for Better Health Care
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.
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Opening Welcome
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One to Five, Six to Ten
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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Cancers and Health
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Exploring the Evolutionary Forces Driving Tumor Development
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.
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Malignant Melanoma: The Tumor That Used to Give Cancer a Bad Name
Bill Robinson is a Professor of Medicine and the Rifkin Endowed Chair for Cancer Research at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus.
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How 140 Characters Are Changing Health Care
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.
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Transposable Elements Modulate Human RNA Abundance
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.
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Musical Comedy
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Damaged Care: The Musical Comedy About Health Care in America
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.
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Damaged Care: The Musical Comedy About Health Care in America
Greg LaGana, M.D., completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Harlem Hospital and is board-certified in internal medicine
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Big Data, Big Problems
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A Journey to Transform Care for Children with Rare Lung Disease
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.
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Health: The Heart of Health Care Reform
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.
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Opportunities and Challenges for Big Data in Biology: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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.
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Diet and Hunger: The Weakest Parts of the Global “Health Care”
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.
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Day One Wrap Up
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The Philo-Gag Perspective I
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.
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The Philo-Gag Perspective I
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.
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Rare Diseases, Reductionism, and Death
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One of a Kind: What Do You Do When You’re the First?
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.
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Not-So-Rare Disease
Yvonne Kobayashi is a principal research scientist at Eli Lilly & Company and came to the Mobility & Metabolism Division at the end of 2012.
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Is Reductionism Killing Biomedical Research?
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.
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Having the Conversation: Is It Really That Important?
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.
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Wellness at Every Level
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Do We Need a Theory of Healthy Eating?
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.
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New Defenses for the Body’s Own Armor: RNA Weapons Against RNA Viruses
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.
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Can We Define a More Cost-Effective Path to Better Therapy? Reminiscences from the Front Line
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.
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The Long Road to Personalized Medicine: How Mutations Activate a Telomerase Gene and Help Drive Cancer
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.
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Day Two Wrap Up
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The Philo-Gag Perspective II
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.
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The Philo-Gag Perspective II
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.
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Closing Remarks
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