Value-driven Engineering

The Value-driven Engineering and U.S. Global Competitiveness Safe Haven Summit featured an impressive keynote address by Aneesh Chopra, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and numerous presentations by some of the leading scientists, educators and physicians in our country.

The following is a complete list of our 2011 Safe Haven Summit speakers.

• Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer, Assistant to the President & Associate Director for Technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Frank L. Douglas, PhD, MD, President and CEO, Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron
• Soumyadipta Acharya, MD, MSE, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• Rebecca Bagley, President and CEO, NorTech
• Charles J. Bruce, MD, Director of Interventional Imaging, Mayo Clinic
• Matthew Callaghan, MD, Founder, One Breath
• Richard Gephardt, President and CEO, Gephardt Group Government Affairs
• Martha Gray, PhD, J.W. Kieckhfer Professor of Medical and Electrical Engineering, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
• A. Seth Greenwald, DPhil (Oxon), Director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories (ORL)
• Al Hammond, PhD, Senior Entrepreneur, Ashoka
• William J. Heetderks, PhD, MD, Director, Extramural Science Program, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• Mike Hess, Vice President, Innovation Excellence, Medtronic
• Rajarao “Raj” Jammy, PhD, Vice President, Emerging Technologies, SEMATECH
• Trevor Jones, Chairman and CEO, Electrosonics Medical Inc.
• A. Jay Khanna, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• Uday N. Kumar, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer, iRhythm Technologies Inc.; Fellowship Director, Global BioDesign Programs, Stanford University
• Lesa Mitchell, Vice President of Advancing Innovation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Ashesh Shah, President and CEO, Maxx Orthopaedics
• Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, FACC, Chief Medical and Science Officer, West Wireless Health Institute
• Lynn Andrea Stein, PhD, Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Director of the Initiative for Innovation in Engineering Education, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
• John Sullivan, Director, Systems Integration, LifeScan Inc.
• Charles M. Vest, PhD, President, National Academy of Engineering
• Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA, Executive Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Johns Hopkins University