Speaker: Michael Howell, MD, MPH, Chief Health Officer at Google
Date: September 15, 2026 at 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Registration is required to attend.
Speaker: Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, President of Clinical Studies Platforms at Verily
Date: January 20, 2022 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Clinical research is undergoing a major shift, as regulators and sponsors move towards continuous evidence generation to study how interventions perform over time. In this talk, we’ll explore what’s accelerating this trend, how new tools and technologies are advancing the space, and how it can ultimately enable more personalized care.
Speaker: Alina Chan, Molecular Biologist at the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard University
Date: November 15, 2021 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
In May 2020, I co-authored a preprint that asked whether SARS-CoV-2 might have emerged naturally or from a lab. The preprint propelled me into an unpredictable year-and-a-half journey of searching for the origin of Covid-19. In May 2021, I agreed to write down what I had learnt in a book that will be released on November 16, VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.
Speaker: Michael Kremer, PhD, 2019 Nobel Laureate, Director of the Development Innovation Lab, University Professor in Economics and the College and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
Date: November 4, 2021 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Speaker: Stephen Wolfram, PhD, Founder and CEO at Wolfram Research
Date: October 7, 2021 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Dr. Stephen Wolfram – creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research – will speak about the computational future and biomedicine. Dr. Wolfram will share a roadmap for recentering biomedicine around computation and give insights into harnessing data driven science to transform the biomedical landscape. This should be a relevant and an illuminating talk from one of the foremost leaders in computational health.
Speaker: Enrico Coiera, PhD, Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Date: April 29, 2021 at 5:00PM - 6:30PM
In an age where technology appears to rule supreme, it is easy to forget that our relationship with technology is complicated. Just as humans shape technology, it shapes us in return. It is also easy to only see things through the lens of the technologies we have to hand, and build solutions that ill fit reality. Electronic health records for example demand that clinical work bends to the needs of documentation, with the end result being burnt out clinicians who do anything but what they were taught at medical school.
Speaker: Lawrence Lessig, JD, Founder of Creative Commons, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School
Date: March 1, 2021 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Privacy has become a central focus of policy debates in every context. In this talk, Lessig argues that we’re conceiving of the problem in a fundamentally flawed way. Offered is a different framework, radically different but critically better. Or so it is hoped.
Speaker: Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at UCSF and Chief Data Science Officer at University of California Health System
Date: February 22, 2021 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
There is an urgent need to take what we have learned in our new data-driven era of medicine, and use it to create a new system of precision medicine, delivering the best, safest, cost-effective preventative or therapeutic intervention at the right time, for the right patients. Dr. Butte's lab at the University of California, San Francisco builds and applies tools that convert trillions of points of molecular, clinical, and epidemiological data -- measured by researchers and clinicians over the past decade and now commonly termed “big data” -- into diagnostics, therapeutics, and n
Speaker: Timothy Yu, MD, PhD, Neurogeneticist and Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Date: January 11, 2021 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Genome sequencing is revolutionizing the diagnosis of rare diseases, but 95% of these conditions still lack effective therapy. With up to 7,000 distinct genetic diseases to tackle, new and creative frameworks will be necessary to meet this need. Recent advances offer the prospect of platform-based therapeutic approaches to certain genetically targetable disorders — in the right circumstances, facilitating the design and deployment of hyper-personalized drugs for conditions affecting as few as even a single patient.
Speaker: Shep Doeleman, PhD, 2020 Breakthrough Prize Winner; Astrophysicist at Center for Astrophysics
Date: November 9, 2020 at 4:00PM - 5:30PM
What can medicine learn about collaboration and data sharing from one of the most successful team science projects of all time--creating a telescope the diameter of the earth to snap an image of a black hole? Black holes are cosmic objects so massive and dense that their gravity forms an event horizon: a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. Einstein's theories predict that a distant observer should see a ring of light encircling the black hole, which forms when radiation emitted by infalling hot gas is lensed by the extreme gravity.
Speaker: Ricky Bloomfield, MD, Clinical and Health Informatics Lead at Apple
Date: March 2, 2020 at 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Healthcare has been slow to adopt scalable, interoperable, user-centric solutions as other industries have done, but technology is finally catching up with the needs of patients. Ricky will share how Apple's support and use of open standards has helped accelerate adoption across the country.
