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Tuesday, February 5
General Sessions:

01. Clinical, Financial, and Technological Forces For and Against Integration of In Vivo and In Vitro Diagnostics
Bruce A. Friedman, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pathology, University of
Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI


02. Emerging Technologies and New Directions for Molecular Diagnostics
Jared N. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Pathology & Lab Medicine,
Presbyterian Healthcare, Charlotte, NC, and Richard C. Friedberg, M.D.,
Chairman, Department of Pathology, Baystate Health; Professor and Deputy Chairman, Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA


03. How Molecular Imaging Technologies Will Transform Radiology and Integrated Diagnostics
Chaitanya Divgi, M.D., Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular
Imaging, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


04. How the Integration of Molecular Imaging, Molecular Diagnostics, and Informatics Will Lead to Pre-symptomatic Diagnosis and Treatment
Thomas Miller, Executive Management Board of the Medical Solutions Group, Siemens AG, Malvern, PA

Breakout Sessions

Radiology/In Vivo Track
05. Radiology and Molecular Imaging on the Cutting Edge at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Elliot Fishman, M.D., Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science
and of Oncology Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD


Pathology/In Vitro Track
06. Screening for Lung Cancer in the HIV Patient
Malcolm Brock, M.D., Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD


Informatics Track
07. Full Digitization of Molecular Diagnostics and Molecular Pathology
Dirk Soenksen, CEO, Aperio Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA

Radiology/In Vivo Track
08. Combining Proteomics Diagnostics
with CT Perfusion Data for Managing Blood Thinners
Stephen Wong, Ph.D., Vice Chair of Radiology and Chief of Medical
Physics, The Methodist Medical Center/Cornell University School of
Medicine, Houston, TX


•Pathology/In Vivo Track
09. Molecular Diagnostics: From Revolution to Mainstream to Genomic Medicine
Daniel H. Farkas, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Molecular
Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI


•Informatics Track
10. Oncology, Molecular Diagnostics, and Informatics Integration
Michael J. Becich, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Biomedical
Informatics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA


•Radiology/In Vivo Track
11. Bridging Molecular Imaging Between the Hospital and Outpatient Services
Joseph J. Busch, M.D., Radiologist, Battlefield Imaging, Ringgold, GA

•Pathology/In Vitro Track
12. Generation X Integrates Radiology and Pathology In Dual-Specialty Practice
Heidi Umphrey, M.D., Chief Resident, Radiology, University of Alabama at
Birmingham, Birmingham, AL


•Informatics Track
13. Case Study: MedCentral Health Systems Uses Integrated IT to Achieve Major Gains in Three Core Measures of Performance
Fred Crowgey, MBA, Project Director, Information Services, MedCentral
Health, Mansfield, OH


General Sessions:

14. Molecular Medicine’s Exploding Role in In Vitro Fertilization
James M. Goldfarb, M.D., Director of In Vitro Fertilization Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

15. How an Oncologist Works through a Case: From Diagnosis to Therapy and Ongoing Patient Management
Allan Lipton, M.D., Medical Oncologist, Penn State Cancer Institute, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA


Wednesday, February 6

17. Explosion of Bio-Markers Will Drive Growth of Personalized Medicine
Carol Kovak, Ph.D., Managing Director, Burrill & Co., San Francisco, CA

18. How a Cardiologist Works through a Case: From Diagnosis to Therapy and Ongoing Patient Management
Aaron L. Baggish, M.D., Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, MA


19. Case Study: Integration of Radiology, Pathology, and Informatics at Methodist Medical Center, Houston, TX
King Li, M.D., Chair of Radiology, The Methodist Medical Center/ Cornell
University School of Medicine, Houston, TX


20. Case Study: Integration of Radiology, Pathology, and Informatics at Laboratorio Fleury, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jose Marcelo A. de Oliveira, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, Diagnostic Center Director, Laboratorio Fleury, Sao Paolo, Brazil

21. Advances in Full Gene Sequencing By DNA Analysis
John Compton, Ph.D., CEO, GeneDx, Gaithersburg, MD

22. Looking at RIS and LIS from the Vendor’s Perspective
Gilbert Hakim, CEO, SCC Soft Computer Systems, Clearwater, FL

23. Forward Steps to Integrate Molecular Data from Radiology, Pathology, and OMICS
Michael Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Dean for IT, Academic
Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA


24. How Payers Will Respond to the Evolution of Molecular Imaging and Molecular Pathology
Mitchell I. Burken, M.D., Medicare Medical Director, TrailBlazer Health
Enterprises, Timonium, MD


25. Pursuing the Vision of Integrated Molecular Imaging and Molecular Diagnostics in Today’s Clinical Service
Richard C. Friedberg, M.D., Chairman, Department of Pathology, Baystate
Health; Professor and Deputy Chairman, Department of Pathology,
Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA









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