Alec Rosenberg, UC Newsroom
University of California President Janet Napolitano and Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner will be among several UC participants in the New York Times Health for Tomorrow conference, May 28-29, which will be webcast live at www.nythealthfortomorrow.com.
The event, which will take place at UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, will address the changing landscape of health care and highlight UC’s role in fostering a dialogue around important issues.
The conference is invitation-only, but the live webcast is free and open to all.
It kicks off with a keynote talk at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday (May 28) by New York Times correspondent Elisabeth Rosenthal, who will present findings from her yearlong special series “Paying Till It Hurts.”
On Thursday, Napolitano will deliver welcoming remarks at 8:25 a.m. A day full of discussions will follow with health care experts from across the nation. UC participants include: a panel on the gut at 2:05 p.m. with UC San Francisco assistant professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences Michael Fischbach; a panel on the physician/patient relationship in the 21st century at 3:40 p.m. with UC Irvine clinical professor of family medicine David Kilgore; and a Nobel Prize panel at 4:35 p.m. with Prusiner, a UC San Francisco professor of neurology and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
As part of the conference, some UC entrepreneurs have been invited to give very short talks about their health-related startup companies. The “Three Minutes to Launch” presentations will be interspersed throughout the day to spotlight emerging innovators in health. Those with UC ties include Anupam Pathak, Lift Labs founder and CEO, who has B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC Berkeley; Erik Douglas, CEO of CellScope, who has a doctorate degree from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco; and Joanna Strober, founder and CEO of Kurbo Health, who has a J.D. from UCLA.
