Kelvin Teo, MBBS, PhD, senior consultant, Advanced Eye Clinic & Surgery, adjunct associate professor, Duke NUS Eye ACP, Singapore, presents real-world data showing that a single 8-mg dose…
Andrew Chang, MBBS, PhD, consultant ophthalmologist and head of Ophthalmology, Sydney Eye Hospital, Australia, shares real-world experience using 8-mg intravitreal aflibercept for neovascular age-related macular degeneration and reports…
Ralph Merkel, MD, Co-founder, Nanofactory Collaboration, talks about medical nanotechnology using the example of the respirocyte. This theoretical artificial red blood cell, with 100 times the oxygen carrying…
Tim O’Reilly, CEO O’Reilly Media, talks about the “man-machine interface” necessary to drive the data driven systems that will shape the future of healthcare. He describes his vision…
Daniel Kraft, MD, Director, FutureMed Executive Services, defines regenerative medicine as the ability to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissues and organs. His discussion includes the roles of…
Allan May, Founder, Life Science Angels, offers advice to the would-be physician entrepreneur, including common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid when bringing a product to market. Videotaped at…
Andrew Hessel, MD, Founding Director, Pink Army Cooperative, describes synthetic biology as a way of “programming living things” and predicts that it will become the next computer revolution…
Eric Rasmussen, MD, VP Humanitarian Systems, AccessAgility, explains the importance of providing, simple, accessible, often open source, technology to isolated populations in support of public health initiatives. Tools…
Dan Barry, MD, PhD, roboticist and former astronaut, talks about current and future applications for medical robots. He envisions a future in which robots capable of perceiving and…
Eythor Bender, CEO of Esko Bionics, describes eLegs. The exoskeleton, currently in trials in the US, is designed to restore the ability to walk to wheelchair-bound patients. The…
Dan Barry, MD, PhD, roboticist and former astronaut, offers a first-person account of space flight from training to lift-off and beyond. Videotaped at FutureMed, in May, 2011, at…
Dan Barry, MD, PhD, roboticist and former astronaut, describes the technology of 3D printing and its implications for personalized therapy in the field of orthopaedics. Videotaped at FutureMed,…
