Day 1, Tuesday, December 4, 2012
- 6:00pm
- Opening Reception for Participants — Forbes Galleries (60 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street, NYC) — featuring Showcase of Innovations
- 7:00pm
- Welcome — Prescription for Change
Steve Forbes, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
- 9:00pm
- Reception Concludes
Day 2, Wednesday, December 5, 2012
- 7:00am
- Registration/Breakfast — The Allen Room at Jazz @ Lincoln Center (Time Warner Center, 5th Floor, Broadway and 60th Street)
- 8:10am
- Introduction and Overview
Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes Magazine
- 8:15am
- Welcome and Opening Remarks
Putting the Consumer in the Center of Our Healthcare Industry: Improving Affordability, Accessibility and Transparency.
Steve Forbes, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
- 8:30am
- Can Entrepreneurs Transform Drug Discovery?
The cost of inventing a new drug doubles every nine years. Can we break the research logjam? Executives with experience at both small and big pharma on reinvigorating pharmaceutical R&D.;
Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes Media
8:30am
Bernard Munos, Founder, InnoThink
8:42am
Tony Coles, President & CEO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Mikael Dolsten, President, Worldwide Research and Development, Pfizer
George Scangos, Chief Executive Officer, Biogen Idec
Paul Stoffels, Worldwide Chairman, Pharmaceuticals and Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson
- 9:20am
- Using Big Data to Make Patients Better and Help Guide Doctors
Medicine is often without the kind of data-monitoring used for quality control in other businesses. Can new sources of data help improve patient care?
Moderator: Glen de Vries, Co-founder and President, Medidata
Harlan Krumholz, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
Andy Slavitt, Group Executive Vice President, Optum
Peter Tippett, Chief Medical Officer, Verizon
- 10:00am
- How Healthcare Can Transform the Economies of Cities and States
Healthcare costs are breaking budgets and leading companies, cities and states toward bankruptcy. Here are some examples of places where healthcare is being turned into a source of economic growth.
10:00 am
A Conversation with Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
Texas: Stem Cells and Doctor Haven
Interviewer: Steve Forbes, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
10:30 am
Rochester: When Adversaries Become Allies in the War on Cost
Moderator: Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes Magazine
Bradford Berk, Chief Executive Officer, University of Rochester Medical Center
David Klein, Chief Executive Officer, The Lifetime Healthcare Companies
- 10:50am
- Break
- 11:10am
- Healthcare As a Consumer Product — Making Health Insurance Price Transparent
In most industries, from cars to banking, information creates empowered consumers. You know how much you pay when you buy a new car, and the car dealer knows how much he will get. Why not the same for health insurance? We need transparency, affordability and accessibility.
Moderator: Steve Forbes, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
John Driscoll, President, Castlight Health
Simon Stevens, President of Global Health, UnitedHealth Group
Ronald Williams, Retired Chairman & CEO, Aetna, and Chairman & CEO, RW2 Enterprises, LLC.
- 11:55am
- The Changing Face of Medical Practice: From Solo Practitioner to Super-Size Groups
Has the evolution of healthcare in the U.S. made the small group practice an unsustainable business model? How does healthcare affordability and accessibility change as doctors increasingly join hospital owned or super-size integrated medical networks? In this session, Moira Forbes, President and Publisher, ForbesWoman, will lead a conversation between Todd J. Albert, Richard H. Rothman Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedics, Professor of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University & Hospitals, and President of The Rothman Institute, and Sandra Fenwick, president and COO of Boston Children's Hospital.
Moderator: Moira Forbes, President and Publisher, ForbesWoman
Todd J. Albert, Richard H. Rothman Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedics; Professor of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University & Hospitals; President, The Rothman Institute
Sandra Fenwick, President & COO, Boston Children’s Hospital
- 12:15pm
- Lunch
- 1:30pm
- Where Technology Can Take Healthcare
Presenter: Daniel Kraft, Executive Director, FutureMed
- 1:45pm
- The Future Is Bright. How Do We Get There?
In the early 1980s, Apple began to "consumerize" technology. What's the path for doing the same to healthcare? We see plenty of consumer-focused activity in wellness, but that's not where most of the costs are. Over the next three to five years, what role will be played by technology, by retailers and by new models of service delivery in diagnosis, and treatment of more serious and chronic conditions as well? Which innovations can we expect to scale quickly?
Moderator: Ted Meisel, Senior Advisor, Elevation Partners and Independent Healthcare Investor
Martin Felsenthal, Parter, HLM Venture Partners
John Sculley, Sculley Brothers
Robert Tapia-Conyer, Director General, Carlos Slim Health Institute
- 2:35pm
- What Would You Do with the FDA?
How do we strike the right balance to ensure the speedy delivery of new drugs, tissue engineering products and mobile apps to market while providing acceptable consumer safety? This session will feature a panel discussion and an interview with the current FDA commissioner.
Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes
Donald Berry, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Joe Kiani, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Masimo Corporation
Steve Nissen, Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
Andrew von Eschenbach, President, Samaritan Health Initiatives and Former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
A Conversation with Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
- 3:35pm
- Break
- 3:50pm
- DNA Disruptors: Our Genetic Future
DNA-sequencing machines are improving at a rate that exceeds the steep innovation slope of the microprocessor, and are now being adopted in cancer care. But will this technical arms race ever transform medicine or society?
Moderator: Kimberly Popovits, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Genomic Health
Stephen Bonner, President & CEO, Cancer Treatment Centers of America
George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Howard Jacob, Founding Director, Personalized Medicine Program and Human and Molecular Genetics Center and Professor, Physiology and Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Jonathan Rothberg, Chief Executive, Ion Torrent Division, Life Technologies
- 4:30pm
- Philanthropy in Healthcare — When Patients Become Catalysts for Change
This isn’t just a consumer revolution in health. It’s a revolution in which patients will be increasingly empowered. In the future, it will be people grappling with their own illnesses who will help find cures. In fact, this is already happening. Here are some heroic individuals who, upon discovering they were sick, marshaled resources to develop treatments, changed the way scientists thought and even raised the possibility of cures.
Moderator: Moira Forbes, President and Publisher, ForbesWoman
Kathy Giusti, Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Patient, Multi Myeloma Research Foundation
Scott Johnson, President, CEO and Founder, Myelin Repair Foundation
- 4:50pm
- “There Is No Department of Cures”
Michael J. Fox often points out that although the government and private sector fund research to the tune of $100 billion a year, there is nobody in charge of getting results of that research to patients (or anybody else). He and his foundation have leveraged the power of his celebrity not just to raise money and make targeted investments in Parkinson’s R&D;, but also to create a spirit of teamwork among scientists and, even more importantly, to mobilize patients as part of the effort to find new treatments.
Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes
Michael J. Fox, Founder, The Michael J. Fox Foundation
Deborah Brooks, Co-Founder & Executive Vice Chairman, The Michael J. Fox Foundation
- 5:15pm-7:00pm
- Reception — Atrium