Dr. Tom Insel and 12 other world-class brain experts confirmed to Speak @ 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th, 2017)
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We are proud to share what’s already shaping up to be a quite spectacular and unique Speaking Roster at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit, starting with Thomas R. lnsel, MD, a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and currently a co-founder and President of Mindstrong Health. From 2002–2015, Dr. Insel served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) committed to research on mental disorders. Prior to serving as NIMH Director, Dr. lnsel was Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University where he was founding director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience in Atlanta. Most recently (2015 – 2017), he led the Mental Health Team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) in South San Francisco, CA. Dr. Insel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous national and international awards including honorary degrees in the U.S. and Europe.
Other confirmed Speakers include:
- Dr. David Bartrés-Faz, Principal Investigator of the Barcelona Brain Health Initiative (BBHI)
- Alvaro Fernandez, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of SharpBrains
- Dr. Oliver Harrison. Chief Executive of the Health Moonshot at Telefónica Innovation
- Sarah Lenz Lock, Senior Vice President for Policy at AARP and Executive Director of the Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH)
- Dr. Eddie Martucci, Co-Founder and CEO of Akili Interactive Labs
- Dr. Graeme Moffat, VP of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs at Interaxon
- Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Dr. Dana Penney, Co-Founder of Digital Cognition Technologies and Director of Neuropsychology at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
- Mark Pollock, athlete, author, speaker, and first blind man to race to the South Pole
- Dr. Peter Reiner, Co-Founder of the National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia
- Dr. Simone Schurle, MIT biomedical engineering postdoc fellow and member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Human Enhancement
- Tara Thiagarajan, Founder and Chief Scientist at Sapien Labs
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