Tuesday, April 10

TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Tuesday, April 10
SESSION 1 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm
TRACES
REBECCA ONIE
Urban Acrobats
Co-Founder & CEO, Health Leads
“How many fingers does
your hand have?”
“Can we rewrite the
DNA of the healthcare
system?”
BRYAN STEVENSON
JILL SOBULE
Executive Director, Equal Justice
Initiative
Singer, Songwriter
“Take three songs and call
me in the morning, OK?”
“Is it healthy for America’s
identity to keep our eyes
closed?”
TERESA MONACHINO
Author and Founder, Studio
Monachino
“If healthcare is really
sick care, do I need
a ‘sicktionary’?”
WPAS CHILDREN OF
THE GOSPEL CHOIR
Choir
& STEP AFRIKA!
Percussive Dance Group
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TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 11
SESSION 2 | 8:45 – 10:30 am
JILL SOBULE
SCOTT JUREK
Singer, Songwriter
Author, Ultramarathon Champion
“Take three songs and call
me in the morning, OK?”
“What made me run
for my life?”
FRANCIS COLLINS
COOKIE MONSTER
Director of the National Institutes
of Health
“Om nom nom nom,” Sesame Street
“Is ‘C’ for more than
just cookie?”
“From discovery to health:
does it have to be a long
and winding road?”
HOWARD-YANA
SHAPIRO
Global Staff Officer, Plant Science &
External Research Mars, Incorporated
“What is the source
of all life?”
JUDITH SALERNO
Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive
Officer of the Institute of Medicine
of the National Academies
& JOHN HOFFMAN
Vice President, HBO Documentary
Films; Executive Producer, Weight
of the Nation
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 11
SESSION 3 | 10:30 – 1:00 pm
RISA LAVIZZO
MOUREY
JACOB SCOTT
Radiation Oncologist and Cancer
Theoretician, Moffit Cancer Center
President and CEO, Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
“Can we stop the
imaginectomies?
“What have we learned
about tackling ‘great
challenges’?”
THOMAS FRIEDEN
PEGGY HAMBURG
Director, The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
Commissioner, U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
& LARRY BRILLIANT
“What do you do when
your best shot falls
short?”
President and CEO, Skoll Global
Threats Fund
IVAN ORANSKY
Executive Editor of Reuters Health
“Is the ‘disease model’
sick—or just exhausted?”
TODD PARK
U.S. Chief Technology Officer
“Faster, higher, smarter:
the Olympics?
No, Uncle Sam.”
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 11
SESSION 4 | 2:15 – 4:15 pm
MOMIX
LISA NILSSON
Dancers-Illusionists
Visual Artist
“Can we reshape your
perceptions without
saying a word?”
“Are you ready for
a new slice of reality?”
ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ
BARABÁSI
DAVID ICKE
Chief Executive Officer, MC10
Director of the Center for Complex
Network Research, Northeastern
University
“Can I wear my computer
like a second skin?”
“Do your proteins
have their own social
network?”
SETH COOPER
DIANE KELLY
Creative Director, Center for Game
Science, University of Washington
Senior Research Fellow at the
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
“Why is my joystick
smarter than your
stethoscope?”
“When is research an
exercise in fertility?”
MARC TRIOLA
TRACES
Associate Dean for Educational
Informatics at NYU School
of Medicine
Urban Acrobats
“How many fingers does
your hand have?”
& JOHN QUALTER
Cofounder, Director of Media,
BioDigital Systems, Research
Assistant Professor of Educational
Informatics, NYU School of Medicine
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 11
SESSION 5 | 5:00 – 6:45 pm
STEVE CONNELL
ROBERT GUPTA
Internationally Acclaimed Spoken
Word Artist, Playwright, Actor, Poet
Founder/Artistic Director,
Street Symphony
& SEKOU ANDREWS
“Does beauty have
the power to heal?”
Internationally Acclaimed Spoken
Word Artist, Playwright, Actor, Poet
GREGORY PETSKO
TRACES
Chair of the Department of
Biochemistry at Brandeis University
Urban Acrobats
“How many fingers does
your hand have?”
“How will the world handle
00 million Alzheimer’s
patients?”
REISA SPERLING
MIGUEL NICOLELIS
Director, The Center for Alzheimer
Research and Treatment, Brigham
and Women’s Hospital
Founder, Duke’s Center
for Neuroengineering
“Can we move beyond the
machine-brain barrier?”
“Can we treat Alzheimers
0 years early?”
VIRGINIA BREEN AND
ELIZABETH BONKER
Author, Poet, Aspiring Doctor
“When you finally find your
voice, what do you most
want to say?”
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Thursday, April 12
SESSION 6 | 8:45 – 10:15 am
JONATHAN MANN
SANDEEP KISHORE
Singer, Songwriter
M.D., Ph.D. Student, Co-chair,
Young Professionals Chronic
Disease Network
“What are 0 ways
to leave your doctor…
stumped?”
“You say you want
a revolution?”
FRANCES ARNOLD
Dick and Barbara Dickinson
Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Bioengineering and Biochemistry,
California Institute of Technology
“How can we design
new DNA?”
ANDREW READ
Director of the Center for Infectious
Disease Dynamics, Penn State
University
“The bugs are getting
smarter. Are we?”
E.O. WILSON
Honorary Curator in Entomology
and University Research Professor
Emeritus, Harvard University
“Was Einstein right about
imagination?”
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Thursday, April 12
SESSION 7 | 11:00 – 12:45 pm
HIEP NGUYEN
ED GAVAGAN
Director, Robotic Surgery, Research,
and Training Center and the Pediatric
TeleUrology Service at Children’s
Hospital Boston
Co-founder, Design Starts Here
“Does a stitch in time
save nine?”
“What if RD was
your doctor?”
MARY “MISSY”
CUMMINGS
ROBERT GUPTA
Founder/Artistic Director,
Street Symphony
Director, MIT Humans
and Automation Laboratory
“Does beauty have
the power to heal?”
“Can a ‘computer
co-pilot’ help anyone
be a surgeon?”
BASIL TWIST
BARBARA BASS
Artistic Director, Tandem Otter
Productions
Director, Methodist Institute for
Technology, Innovation, and Education
“If art imitates life,
what does life imitate?”
“What is the surgeon’s
flight simulator?”
BUD FRAZIER
Chief, Center for Cardiac Support,
Director, Cardiovascular Surgery
Research, Texas Heart Institute
& BILLY COHN
Director, Minimally Invasive Surgical
Technology, Texas Heart Institute
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Thursday, April 12
SESSION 8 | 2:15 – 4:15 pm
GAIL MCGOVERN
JON COHEN
President and CEO of the
American Red Cross
Senior Vice President, Chief Medical
Officer and Director of Hospital
Services, Quest Diagnostics
“What happens when
one person’s disease
becomes everybody’s
business?”
“Why don’t patients
behave like consumers?”
STEPHEN PETRONIO
GABBY REECE
Founder, Stephen Petronio
Company
Professional Beach Volleyball Player
and Women’s Health Advocate
& LAIRD HAMILTON
“Can a daring dance
reveal a daring truth?”
Professional Big-Wave Surfer
JONATHAN GLASS
Director of the Emory ALS Center,
Department of Neurology, Emory
University
& NICK BOULIS
Founder, Boulis Laboratory,
Emory University School of Medicine
OTIS BRAWLEY
Chief Medical Officer,
American Cancer Society
“War On Cancer, Year 0:
who’s winning?”
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Thursday, April 12
SESSION 9 | 5:00 – 6:45 pm
BEN GOLDACRE
JILL SOBULE
Best-Selling Author,
Broadcaster, M.D.
Singer, Songwriter
“Take three songs and call
me in the morning, OK?”
“Where’s the rest
of the data iceberg?”
JONATHAN EISEN
Evolutionary Biologist, DOE Joint
Genome Institute
“Who are ‘Me, Myself
and Us’?”
JOEL SALATIN
Beyond Organic Farmer and Author
“Can real food from real
farms lead to real health?”
BILLIE JEAN KING
Founder and Honorary Chair, Women’s
Sports Foundation, President’s Council
on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition,
2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Recipient
& KATIE COURIC
Co-Founder, Stand Up To Cancer and
Special Correspondent, ABC News
TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Friday, April 13
SESSION 10 | 8:45 – 10:15 am
FRED HERSCH
ATUL BUTTE
Jazz Pianist & Composer
Chief of the Division of Systems
Medicine and Associate Professor of
Pediatrics, Medicine, and Computer
Science, Stanford University
What’s inspiring about
a coma?”
“What if you outsource
three double-blind mice?”
DAN PERRY
President & CEO, Alliance
for Aging Research
Do cells have
a mid-life crisis?”
FRANZISKA MICHOR
Associate Professor of
Computational Biology, Department
of Biostatistics & Computational
Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute
“When does + = life?”
LYNDA CHIN
Scientific Director, Institute for Applied
Cancer Science, UT MD Anderson
Cancer Center
“Can medical industry
and medical research live
happily ever after?”
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TEDMED2012 PROGRAM
Friday, April 13
SESSION 11 | 11:00 – 1:00 pm
JAY LOMBARD
STEVE CONNELL
Chief Scientific Officer, Genomind
Internationally Acclaimed Spoken
Word Artist, Playwright, Actor, Poet
“What’s the new map
for mental illness?”
& SEKOU ANDREWS
Internationally Acclaimed Spoken
Word Artist, Playwright, Actor, Poet
LESLIE SAXON
JILL SOBULE
Executive Director & Founder,
USC Center for Body Computing
Singer, Songwriter
“Take three songs and call
me in the morning, OK?”
“Can we get -billion heart
beats on speed dial?”
ALI ANSARY
Co-Founder, SeventyK
“So technology is a
crutch…you got
a problem with that?”
MARK HYMAN
Author & Chairman, Institute
for Functional Medicine
“If we can’t cure the
patient, can the
community do it?”