Save the Date: SharpBrains Summit, Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

You can see speak­ers and agen­da by click­ing on Sharp­Brains Sum­mit. Please reg­is­ter if you are inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing: Jan­u­ary 18–20th 2010 (Pacif­ic Time).

• Con­fer­ence: Jan­u­ary 18–19th. 9–10 pan­els to dis­cuss Mar­ket and Research Insights,  togeth­er with online discussions.
• Expo Day: Jan­u­ary 20th. Prod­uct demos by Sponsors.

Con­firmed speak­ers and themes:

Monday, January 18th, 2010:

Cog­ni­tion and Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: The New Health­care Frontier

• Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO, SharpBrains
• David White­house, Chief Med­ical Offi­cer, OptumHealth Behav­ioral Solutions
• William Reich­man, Pres­i­dent, Baycrest
• P Murali Doraiswamy, Bio­log­i­cal Psy­chi­a­try Divi­sion Head, Duke University

Tools for Safer Dri­ving: Teenagers and Old­er Adults

• Steven Aldrich, CEO, Posit Science
• Peter Chris­tian­son, Pres­i­dent of Young Dri­vers of Canada
• Jer­ri Edwards, Assoc. Pro­fes­sor Uni­ver­si­ty of South Florida

Clin­i­cal Appli­ca­tions: Research­ing, Iden­ti­fy­ing, Treat­ing Cog­ni­tive Deficits

• Kei­th Wesnes, Prac­tice Leader, Unit­ed BioSource Corporation
• Jonas Jen­di, CEO, Cogmed
• Michel Noir, Pres­i­dent, Sci­en­tif­ic Brain Training
• Elkhonon Gold­berg, Chief Sci­en­tif­ic Advi­sor, SharpBrains

Pre­ven­tive Appli­ca­tions: Main­tain­ing Cog­ni­tive Func­tions for Inde­pen­dent Living

• Kunal Sarkar, CEO, Lumos Labs
• Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, Pro­fes­sor at USD Davis School of Gerontology
• Dan Michel, CEO, Dakim

Tuesday January 19th, 2010:

New Cognitive/ Emo­tion­al Health Assessments

• Evian Gor­don, CEO, Brain Resource
• Misha Pavel, Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing Divi­sion Head, OHSU
• Albert Skip Riz­zo, Co-Direc­tor VR Psych Lab at USC

Inte­grat­ing Cog­ni­tion with Home Health and Med­ical Home Models

• Ken­neth Kosik, Co-Direc­tor, UC San­ta Bar­bara Neu­ro­science Research Institute
• Hol­ly Jimi­son, Assoc. Pro­fes­sor, Ore­gon Health & Sci­ence University
• Jesse Wright, Direc­tor Depres­sion Cen­ter, Uni­ver­si­ty of Louisville

Mov­ing From Men­tal Health Dis­or­ders to Brain Functionality

• Torkel Kling­berg, Pro­fes­sor Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science, Karolin­s­ka Institute
• Joshua Stein­er­man, Assoc. Pro­fes­sor, Albert Ein­stein — Mon­te­fiore Med­ical Center
• Yaakov Stern, Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science Divi­sion Leader, Colum­bia University

Entre­pre­neur­ial And Fund­ing Perpectives

• Tim Chang, Part­ner, Nor­west Ven­ture Partners
• Richard Levin­son, Pres­i­dent, Atten­tion Con­trol Systems
• Veroni­ka Litin­s­ki, Direc­tor, MaRS Ven­ture Group

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For Whom: health­care, high-tech, insur­ance, research, pol­i­cy, deci­sion-mak­ers and prac­ti­tion­ers, worldwide.

How: we’ll use online tools for webi­na­rs, dis­cus­sions, net­work­ing, and have social gath­er­ings in cities with enough crit­i­cal mass. We want to repli­cate the “con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence” as much as pos­si­ble with­out hav­ing peo­ple trav­el from all over the place to one city and hotel.

Learn more and reg­is­ter at Sharp­Brains Sum­mit.