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Announcement: Five new excellent Speakers @ 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

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We are delight­ed to announce five new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016):

  • Mary Stu­art, Senior Writer/Analyst at The MedTech Strategist
  • Dr. Andrea Seri­no, Head of Neu­ro­science at Mind­Maze
  • Lin­da Raines, CEO of the Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Maryland
  • Karen Olsen, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for the Future of Pub­lic Education
  • David Coleiro, Part­ner at Strate­gic North

You can explore the Sum­mit Agen­da here, and Reg­is­ter here. Please con­sid­er join­ing us and help rein­vent brain health in the dig­i­tal age!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Initial Speakers for 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (Dec. 6–8th) — Reinventing Brain Health in the Digital Age

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2016sharpbrainssummit_logoWe’re thrilled to announce the first round of speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 6–8th). More to come…stay tuned! (and reg­is­ter soon to ben­e­fit from ear­ly-bird rates)

We can’t wait to dis­cuss the lat­est work and insights from…

  • Dr. Ali­son Fen­ney, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion
  • Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains
  • Dr. Bob Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­chol­o­gy & Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy at UCLA
  • Dr. Bri­an Iacoviel­lo, Direc­tor of Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs at Click Ther­a­peu­tics
  • Char­lie Hartwell, Oper­at­ing Part­ner at The Bridge Builders Collaborative
  • Derek Luke, CEO of Inter­aX­on
  • Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
  • Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Aging at the Davis School of Gerontology
  • Jes­si­ca Poulin, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Arrow­smith Program
  • Dr. Ken­neth Kosik, Co-Direc­tor of the Neu­ro­science Research Insti­tute at UC-San­ta Barbara
  • Mar­garet Moore, Co-Founder of the Insti­tute of Coach­ing at McLean Hospital
  • Michael Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cog­nic­i­ti
  • Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
  • Rita Carter, Sci­ence writer and BBC Con­trib­u­tor
  • Ruth Poli­akine Baruchi, CEO of Myn­dY­ou
  • Dr. Sarah Banks, Head of Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy at the Cleve­land Clin­ic Lou Ruvo Cen­ter for Brain Health
  • Dr. Tej Tadi, CEO of Mind­Maze

Neurotech + Virtual Reality firm MindMaze raises $100M to accelerate growth, primarily in Europe

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Swiss Star­tups Delv­ing Into Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty (TechCrunch):

“On the heels of the Mind­Maze round of $100 mil­lion, it is clear that Swiss tech is boom­ing and begin­ning to tick­le the curios­i­ty of inter­na­tion­al investors. [Read more…] about Neu­rotech + Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty firm Mind­Maze rais­es $100M to accel­er­ate growth, pri­mar­i­ly in Europe

How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care

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Please con­sid­er join­ing us at Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing vir­tu­al con­fer­ence (Novem­ber 17–19th), which will include this fan­tas­tic session:

Tuesday November 17th, 10.00 — 11.30am. How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care.

Pio­neers advanc­ing health research, pre­ven­tion and treat­ment will help us under­stand emerg­ing best prac­tices where tar­geted assess­ments and inter­ven­tions can trans­fer into sig­nif­i­cant health­ and qual­ity of life outcomes.

  • Chair: Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa, Pres­i­dent of the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foundation
  • Dr. Madeleine S Good­kind, staff psy­chol­o­gist at New Mex­ico VA Health Care System
  • Michael Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cogniciti
  • Chris Berka, CEO and Co-Founder of Advanced Brain Mon­i­tor­ing (ABM)
  • Dr Tej Tadi, Founder and CEO of MindMaze

[Read more…] about How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care

Neurotech initiatives in Switzerland aim at leapfrogging brain health care

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Trick­ing the brain into re-wiring itself (Swiss news):

“Swiss neu­ro­science start-ups and labs are find­ing nov­el hi-tech solu­tions to help patients despite a depress­ing glob­al lack of treat­ments for brain dis­or­ders [Read more…] about Neu­rotech ini­tia­tives in Switzer­land aim at leapfrog­ging brain health care