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Richard Carmona, MD
The US Surgeon General
Luncheon Keynote
Preventive Medicine "A New look into the Future"
12:00 - 12:30 PM

J. Edward Hill, MD
President, American Medical Association
Breakfast Keynote
"The Keys to Prevention: Serving, Educating, and Activating our Patients"
8:00 - 8:30 AM

Robert Moffit, PH.D.
Director, Center for Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
"Creating A Single Market in Healthcare"

Steffie Woolhandler, MD
Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School
"A National Health Program for the United States"

Sheldon Rubenfeld, MD
"The Old Eugenics and the New Science:
Lessons and Legacies from Medicine in the Third Reich
"

James T. Willerson, MD
President, University of Texas Health Science Center
"Stem Cells and Treatment of Heart Disease in Humans"

Scott Lillibridge, MD
Director for the Center for Bio Security,
University of Texas Health Science Center,
"Preparing Our Nation For Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats"

Adelaide Hebert, MD
University of Texas Medical School - Houston
School of Dermatology
"Atopic Dermatitis in Primary Care"

Jason E. Moore
Manager Industry Programs, BioHouston
"Building the Life Science Future"

Carlos R. Hamilton Jr. MD
President, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
"Diabetes: Public (Health) Enemy #1"

John Fund
Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal
"National Health Care Systems That Won't Work
in the U.S.: Examples from Abroad
"

C. Thomas Caskey, M.D.
Managing Director CoGene BioTech Ventures
"Medicine, Engineering and Science, The Convergence"

Ferid Murad, MD, PHD, Nobel Laureate
Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center
"Would you believe a pollutant gas, NO, could be so important
in biology, drug development and many biotech startups?
"

David Josephs
JP Morgan Chase
"Consumer Directed Healthcare: Considerations for Healthcare Providers"

Burton Dickey, MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Collaboration at the Intersection of Science and the Law"

Paul K. Carlton Jr., MD
Texas A&M Health Science Center
"Surge Hospitals - From Fantasy to Reality"

Marsal P. Stoll, EdD, MS
President of the John B. Coleman College of Health Sciences
"Attracting Students in Medicine Fields For Our Future"

Timothy B. Boone, MD
Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine
"Over Active Bladder and M3 Receptor Selectivity"

Richard W. Weekley
Volunteer Chairman, Texans for Lawsuit Reform
"Tort Reform and Its Impact on Medicine"

Cliff Dacso, MD and Amalia Issa, MPH, Ph.D
Methodist Hospital and the University of Houston
"Principles of 21st Century Healthcare Delivery:
Bench to Bedside to Community
"



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Aida Araissi
President
Bi Lateral US-Arab
Chamber of Commerce
 
W. Tom Arnold MD
President
3-A Corporation
 
Charles Bailey, Jr. MD
Past President
Texas Medical Association
 
Norman L. Berkman MD
Private Practice
Internal Medicine
 
Marcos Calderon MD
President
Houston Medical Imaging
 
Thomas Caskey MD
President
The Academy of Medicine
Engineering and Science of Texas
 
Nancy Chang Ph.D.
President & CEO
Tanox, Inc.
 
Guy L. Clifton MD
Chairman
Neurological Surgery
Memorial Hermann Hospital
 
Jay T. Comeaux
President
Stanford Group Company
 
Robert S. Conte MD
Corporate Medical Director
Halliburton Corporation
and Centerpoint Energy
 
Denton A. Cooley MD
President
Texas Heart Institute,
Surgeon in Chief,
Cardiovascular Surgery
 
John Cryer, III
Principal
Page Southerland Page
 
Walter Cunningham
Former Apollo Astronaut
Venture Capitalist
 
Nancy W. Dickey MD
President
Health Science Center
Texas A&M University System
 
Richard H. Finnell Ph.D.
Director
Institute of Bioscience and Technology,
Texas A&M Health Science Center
 
O. H. Frazier MD
Chief of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation
and Director of Surgical Research
Texas Heart Institute
 
Ronald G. Girotto
President & CEO
The Methodist Hospital
 
Bruce G. Given MD
President & CEO
Encysive Pharmaceuticals
 
Jay  Gogue Ph.D.
Chancellor UH System,
President The University of Houston
 
Mary T. Green MD PhD
Medical Director
Eye Excellence
 
Carlos R. Hamilton, Jr. MD
President
American Association of
Clinical Endocrinologists
 
William C. Helms
Executive Vice President
Wealth Management Group,
Compass Bank
 
Bill J. Kacal
Managing Director
Deloitte & Touche LLP
 
Bruce Leslie Ph.D.
Chancellor
Houston Community
College System
 
Dorma L. Kohler MD
CEO
Diagnostic Clinic of Houston, PA
 
Scott Lillibridge MD
Director
Center for Bio Security
and Public Health Preparedness
The University of Texas
Health Science Center
 
Walter R. Lowe MD
Orthopedic Surgeon
Houston Texans Team Doctor
 
Gailen D. Marshall, Jr. MD
Vice Chairman
Faculty Development Department of Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
 
John Mendelsohn MD
President
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
 
Jerry Morgensen
President & CEO
Hensel Phelps Construction
 
Ferid Murad MD, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate
Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine,
The University of Texas
Health Science Center
 
Robert E. Rakel MD
Professor
Department of Family &
Community Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
 
Ronald P. Rapini MD
Chairman
Department of Dermatology MD Anderson and
The University of Texas
Health Science Center
 
Sheldon Rubenfeld MD
Private Practice
Thyroidology, Endocrinology & Metabolism
 
Joe Sansone
Chief Executive Officer
TMC Orthopedics
 
Stanley Schultz MD
Dean
The University of Texas
Health Science Center
 
Sunil K. Sharma
President
Sunbelt Medical Corporation
 
Richard E. Smalley Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate
Hackerman Professor of Chemistry,
Professor of Physics, Rice University
 
E. Ashley Smith
Vice Chancellor for
Governmental Relations & Policy
University of Texas System
 
Bill Stafford Ph.D.
Manager, Employer Initiatives
Pfizer, Inc.
 
Patricia L. Starck DSN
Dean & Professor
School of Nursing
The University of Texas
Health Science Center
 
Richard E. Wainerdi Ph.D.
President, CEO and COO
The Texas Medical Center
 
James T. Willerson MD
President
The University of Texas
Health Science Center
 
David D. Wood
Vice President &
Healthcare Practice Leader
Marsh USA
 
John M. Zerwas MD
Chief Medical Officer
Memorial Hermann
Healthcare System
 
 
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