8 – 8:25 am | Arrival and Registration
Breakfast available | Open to Registered Guests Only |
8:25 – 8:30 am | Welcome Remarks | Sridevi V. Sarma, PhD
Vice Dean for Graduate Education & Professor of Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University (JHU); Executive Director NeuroTech Harbor (NTH) |
8:30 – 9 am | Opening Message | Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD
Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
9 – 9:30 am | Advancement Overviews And Seedlings Overview | Moderators:
Paolo Bonato, PhD, Associate Professor Harvard Medical School;
Co-PI CINTA
Youseph Yazdi, PhD, Executive Director CBID JHU; Dir. Innovation Core NTH
Santosh Venkatesha, MBA, Co-Dir Admin & Innovator Cores, Seedlings Co-Director – NTH |
9:30 – 10:15 am | Challenges and Opportunities in Medtech Development in Epilepsy Panel | Moderator:
Nitish Thakor, PhD, Professor JHU; Technical Dir. NTH
Panelists
Steven Schachter, MD, Chief Academic Officer CIMIT; PI CINTA
Sri Sarma, PhD, Vice Dean and Professor JHU; Exec. Dir. NTH
Brandy Fureman, PhD, Chief Outcomes Officer The Epilepsy Foundation
Christina DeMur, MBA, Director Technology Development Director JHTV
Bernice Martin Lee, President and CEO The Epilepsy Foundation |
10:15 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break | |
10:30 – 11:30 am | Challenges and Opportunities in Medtech Development for Substance Use Disorder Panel | Moderator:
Penny Ford-Carleton, MS, Director, Clinical Innovation CIMIT; Outreach Core Leader CINTA
Panelists
Kelly Dunn, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences JHM
Leonardo Angelone, PhD, Deputy Director OTIPI NIDA & NIH
Travis Rieder, PhD, Assistant Director Education Initiatives Berman Institute
Michael Hite, MBA, Co-Founder & CEO, Ayuda Medical
Shel Mann, CEO Co-Founder FireflyVR
Daniel Harper, PhD, Research Investigator University of Michigan |
11:30 – 12:30 pm | Building a MedTech Harbor | Moderator:
Bob Storey, Medtech Executive; Director of Evaluation Core NTH
Panelists
Henry Brem, MD
Director Clinical Innovation, NTH
Professor & Director
Dept of Neurosurgery Johns Hopkins Medicine
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, PhD, Vice Provost & Professor JHU; Director Strategic Initiatives NTH
Samantha Tabone, Partner, Empath Ventures
Francesco Tenore, PhD, Senior Staff Engineer Applied Physics Lab
Christy Wyskiel, MBA, Executive Director JHTV
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12:30 – 2 pm | Invitation only catered lunch | Host:
Chuck Montague, PhD, Co-Director NTH Admin Core & Eval Core
Hub Personnel, NIH, Hub Teams, and invited speakers and panelist Community building – one minute team videos |
2 – 3 pm | Innovator and Seedling Programs Presentations | Innovators awarded funding through the CINTA and NTH hubs will pitch their ventures. |
3 – 3:30 pm | Pathways: Training Future Neurotechnology Innovators | Moderator:
Kebreten Manaye, MD, Professor & Chair Howard University; Director of Outreach & Pathways NTH
Panelists:
Byron Ford, Ph.D. Professor & Associate Dean of Research, Howard University
Annabel Segarra, Ph.D. Professor & Interim Dean of Research, University of Puerto Rico
Aza Allsop, MD, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry, Yale University |
3:30 – 4 pm | Fireside Chat on Neurotech Innovation: Aging | Moderator:
Evaristus Nwulia, MD, Physician & Neuroscientist Howard University; Director of Seedlings Program NTH
Panelists
Annabel Segarra, Ph.D. Professor & Interim Dean of Research, University of Puerto Rico
Eric Grigsby, MD, Founder of Neurovations |
4 – 4:15 pm | Coffee Break | |
4:15 – 5 pm | Inclusive Innovation in Medtech Panel | Moderator:
Linda Durnell, PhD, Director, iVR Lab JHU; Deputy Director Strategy NTH
Panelists
Adler Archer, JD, Managing Director & Research Scientist JHU; Director of Strategy NTH
Kory Bailey, Chief Ecosystem & Relationship Officer, Upsurge Baltimore
Amy Hauser, PhD, Human Optimization Expert JH Applied Physics Lab
Heather Iliff, MA, President and CEO, Maryland Nonprofits |
5 – 5:30 pm | Closing Remarks | Moderator:
Sri Sarma, PhD, Vice Dean for Graduate Education & Professor of Biomedical Engineering JHU; Exec. Dir. NTH
Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D
Associate Provost & Professor of
Civil & Envonmental Engineering
Howard University
Ed Schlesinger, PhD, Dean Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
James B. Steinberg, PhD, Dean Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies
Anthony K. Wutoh, Ph.D., R.Ph., Provost & Chief Academic Officer Howard University |
5:30 – 6:30 pm | Networking Happy Hour
The Capital Grille
601 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20004 | Open to the Public |