GEORGIA LIFE SCIENCES SUMMIT 2011
Bioscience at a Crossroads
September 27, 2011 • AmericasMart Atlanta • Georgia
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Program
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
6:00 PM Chairman's Reception (By Invitation Only)
Metro Atlanta Chamber
 
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

7:30 AM

Career Panel Badge Pickup & Exhibit Hall Set Up

8:00 AM BioCareer Resource Center
Career Panel - Human Resource Network
Seasoned recruiters and career experts will share insights on the current job market, high-demand skills and experience, and tips on transitioning your career to fill high-demand needs.
  Margot D. King; Founder and Vice President, ZeroChaos, Georgia (Moderator)
  Lewis Franklin Bost, MBA, IDSA; Professor of the Practice, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Georgia
  Sheryl L. Dollarhide; Executive Director, Global Human Resources Information Systems and US Human Resources, Merial, Ltd., Georgia
  Mark McCann; Manager, Human Resources, CIBA Vision Johns Creek Manufacturing, Georgia
  Lynn Sullivan; Account Manager, Aerotek Scientific, Georgia
8:40 AM - 4:00 PM BioCareer Resource Center / Appointments Available

9:00 AM Official Summit Start: Opening Remarks
Edward J. Schutter, RPh, MBA; 2011 Summit Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Georgia
  Video Address:
Governor Nathan Deal
9:30 AM Keynote Address:
Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH; Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

10:00 AM Plenary Presentation:
Congressman Jack Kingston
10:45 AM Exhibit Hall Opens / Scientific Poster Viewing (All Day)
11:45 AM Official Welcome / Lunch Plenary Panel:
Changing Landscape of Biotech and Pharma
Thomas A. Davis, MBA; Chief Executive Officer, Coventry Health Care of Georgia, Inc.; Senior Vice President, Coventry Health Care, Inc., Georgia
Greg Duncan, MBA; Executive Vice President, President of North American Operations, UCB, Inc., Georgia
    Michael Kleinrock; Director, Research Development, IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, Pennsylvania
    John "JJ" Spegele; Vice President and General Manager, North and South America, Quintiles Global Central Laboratories, Georgia
    David L. Urdal, PhD; Chief Scientific Officer and Director, Dendreon Corporation, Washington
    Scott Whitaker; Chief Operating Officer, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Washington DC
12:45 PM Break
1:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Tracks A-Therapeutics, B-Devices, C-Changing Landscape of Pharma, D-Exciting Science in GA)
Track A Session: Emerging Opportunities in Immunotherapy
    Edwin W. Ades, PhD; Pathogenesis Team Lead, Immunology Section, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia (Moderator)
    Charles J. Link, Jr., MD; Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer, NewLink Genetics Corporation, Iowa
    Andrew L. Mellor, PhD; Bradley-Turner and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Molecular Immunogenetics, Professor of Medicine and Director, Immunotherapy Center (CN4151), Co-chair Immunotherapy Discovery Institute, Georgia Health Sciences University, Georgia
    David L. Urdal, PhD; Chief Scientific Officer and Director, Dendreon Corporation, Washington
 
Track B Session: Medical Device Development Resource Network in Georgia
    Lewis Franklin Bost, MBA, IDSA; Professor of the Practice, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Georgia (Moderator)
    Barbara D. Boyan, PhD; Professor and Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering, Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Georgia
    Nicolas A. Chronos, MD, FACC, FESC, FAHA, FRCP; President and Chief Executive Officer, Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute, Georgia
    Rick Hillstead, PhD, FAHA; Managing Partner, Peach Seed Capital, Georgia
    Mark A. Samuels; Chief Executive Officer, Lumamed and Commercialization Consultant, Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI), Georgia
    Harold H. Shlevin, PhD; Principal, VentureLab and Manager of ATDC-Biosciences, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia
    Stacy Williams Shuker, PhD; Director, Center of Innovation for Life Sciences, Georgia
 
Track C Session: The Changing Landscape of Big Pharma Partnering: What Are Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies Looking For and How Are They Structuring Their Ventures?
    Edward J. Schutter, RPh, MBA; President and Chief Executive Officer, Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Georgia (Moderator)
    Charles E. Coleman, MBA; Founding and Principal Partner, Knowledge Acquisition Group, Georgia
    Greg Pahel, PhD; Principal, Innovalyst, LLC, North Carolina
    Brad H. Vale, PhD, DVM; Vice President, Head of Venture Investments, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, California
 
Track D Session: Meeting the Challenges of University Start-Up Companies
    H. Lee Herron, DVM; Vice President of Commercialization, Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia (Moderator)
    David A. Dodd; Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, VaxyGen Holdings, LLC, Georgia
    William D. Johnston, PhD; Chief Executive Officer, InVasc Therapeutics, Inc., Georgia
    Thomas J. O'Brien, MBA; President and Chief Executive Officer, Axion BioSystems, Inc, Georgia
    Todd Sherer, PhD, CLP; President-Elect, Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM); Associate Vice President for Research and Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Emory University, Georgia
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Tracks A-Therapeutics, B-Devices, C-Changing Landscape of Pharma, D-Exciting Science in GA)
  Track A Session: Pediatric Nanomedicine: Developing Nano-scale Tools for Diagnosing and Treating Childhood Diseases
    Gang Bao, PhD; Robert A. Milton Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University; Director, Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia (Moderator)
    Paul W. Spearman, MD; Nahmias-Schinazi Professor and Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vice Chair for Research, Emory Department of Pediatrics, Emory University and Chief Research Officer, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia
    Michael Weinrich, MD; Director, National Center for Rehabilitation Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Maryland
    Paula Cannon, PhD; Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, California
 
Track B Session: Concept to Commercialization: Exploring the Challenges of Bringing Innovation to Market
    Doreen L. Linneman, MBA; Founder and President, The Riverbend Group, LLC, Georgia (Moderator)
    Rebeccah J.C. Brown, PhD; Executive Vice President, Product Development, MiMedx Group, Inc., Georgia
    Mark Gilreath, MBA; Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, EndoChoice Inc., Georgia
    Ken Green, PhD; Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Alimera Sciences, Georgia
    David H. Mason, Jr., MD; Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Given Imaging, Inc., Georgia
 
Track C Session: New Challenges for a New Age: Perspectives from Industry Experts

    John Durkee, RPh, MBA; Vice President, Business Development & Marketing, Peachtree BioResearch Solutions, Inc., Georgia (Moderator)
    Charles Hrushka, MBA; Senior Consultant, Giles & Associates Consultancy, Illinois
    Mark Perlotto; President and Founder, Excitant Healthcare Advertising, Georgia
    Harold H. Shlevin, PhD; Principal, VentureLab and Manager of ATDC-Biosciences, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia
    Daniel White, MBA; President and Chief Executive Officer, Clearside BioMedical Inc, Georgia
 
Track D Session: Thirty Years after the Bayh-Dole Act: Successful Innovations in Georgia
    Todd Sherer, PhD, CLP; President-Elect, Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM); Associate Vice President for Research and Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Emory University, Georgia (Moderator)
    Vincent La Terza; Head Corporate Development, NeurOp, Inc., Georgia
    Robert T. McNally, PhD; President and Chief Executive Officer, GeoVax Labs, Inc., Georgia
    Stefan Schulze, MS, MBA; Associate Director, Georgia BioBusiness Center, The University of Georgia, Georgia
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Tracks A-Therapeutics, B-Devices, C-Changing Landscape of Pharma, D-Exciting Science in GA)
  Track A Session: Personalized Medicine - Opportunities and Challenges
    Amyn M. Rojiani, MD, PhD; Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar; E.R. Pund Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology, Georgia Health Sciences University, Georgia (Moderator)
    Personalized Medicine and Its Impact on Cancer Care
Farrukh T. Awan, MD; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Section, Georgia Health Sciences University, Georgia
    Biospecimen Resources: Essential Tools for Personalized Medicine
Judith G. Giri, PhD; Director, BioRepository Alliance of Georgia for Oncology and Medical College of Georgia Tumor Tissue and Serum Biorepository; Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Georgia Health Sciences University, Georgia
    Innovation in Personalized Medicine: Companion Diagnostics
Pedro L. Rodriguez, PhD; Principal Applications Scientist, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Florida
    Personalized Medicine within the Community Cancer Center Utilizing a New NCI Resource- the NCCCP
Howard A. Zaren, MD, FACS; Medical Director and Surgical Oncologist, Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion; Principal Investigator for the NCI's Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP); and Professor of Surgery, Georgia Life Sciences University, Georgia
 
Track B Session: The Emergence of Wireless Technologies in Health Care
    Ralph M. Herkert, PE; Principal Research Engineer and Center Director, Medical Device Test Center, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia (Moderator)
    Robert Delano; Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia
    Bill Garner; Global Marketing Director, Given Imaging Ltd., Georgia
    Chip Standifer; Vice President Product Development, LifeSync Corporation, Georgia
    Lisa Stepps; Project Manager, Cardiovascular Services, St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, Georgia
 
Track C Session: Convergence of Pharma, Biotech and Health IT
Developed in Partnership with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
    Mike Mosquito, MBA; President and Chief Executive Officer, HealthNovation, Georgia (Moderator)
    Monty Green; Manager, Emerging Markets Solutions, SAIC, Georgia
    Patricia Mozzicato, MD; MedDRA MSSO, Northrop Grumman Health IT Programs, Virginia
    Ketan Paranjape, MS, MBA; Chief of Staff, Healthcare Innovation and Policy, Intel Corporation, Oregon
 
Track D Session: Genomics as Part of Integrated Healthcare in Georgia
    Bradford W. Coffee, PhD, FACMG; Director, Emory Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia (Moderator)
    Angela M. Caliendo, MD, PhD; Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Director, Division of Clinical Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia
    Linda A. Robbie, PhD; Director, Global Assay Development Laboratory, Quintiles, Georgia
4:30 PM Break
4:45 PM Closing Plenary Panel:
Neuroscience Innovation and the Role of Georgia's Scientific, Medical and Military Communities
    Ravi V. Bellamkonda, PhD; Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar; Professor, Associate Vice President of Research, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Georgia
    Ross Mason, MBA; Founder, Healthcare Institute for Neuro-Recovery and Innovation (HINRI) and HealthTrain Ventures, Georgia
    Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD; Dean and Executive Vice President, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia
    Scott Rigsby; Chief Inspiration Officer, The Scott Rigsby Foundation, Georgia
    Colonel David Wilkie, MD; Chief, Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Georgia
5:30 PM Closing Remarks:
Edward J. Schutter, RPh, MBA; 2011 Summit Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Georgia
Anthony Shuker Scientific Poster Awards
Announcement of Poster Winners:

Stacy Williams Shuker, PhD; Director, Center of Innovation for Life Sciences, Georgia
5:45 PM Reception in Exhibit Hall
7:00 PM Exhibit Hall Closed / Summit End
  
  

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