HealthX Annual Conference
HealthX Annual Conference
BUY 2024 CONFERENCE TICKETS HERE
Each year, PennHealthX hosts an annual conference, drawing industry leaders and faculty from around the country to discuss a chosen theme relating to healthcare and innovation in general.
Our 2024 Conference will be themed “Healing Horizons” and will take place on November 16th, 2024 at the Jordan Medical Education Center (JMEC) in Philadelphia, PA.
Conference Agenda
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Opening Keynote (Law Auditorium)
Dr. Roderick Wong - Keynote speech by Dr. Roderick Wong, Managing Partner and and Chief Investment Officer at RTW Investments
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Workshop A1
Dr. Rodrigo Cerdá, M.D., MPH - Lead by Dr. Rodrigo Cerdá, M.D., MPH, Senior Vice President of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer at Independence Blue Cross (Independence)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Workshop A2
Dr. Prashanth Jayaram - Led by Dr. Prashanth Jayaram, Founder and Chief Investment Officer at TriLocum Partners
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Workshop A3
Dr. Nadir Bilici - Led by Dr. Nadir Bilici, Neurologist, member of the Clinical AI and Digital Health Committee at NYU Langone, and Perelman School of Medicine alumnus
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: SDOH Accelerator Project Symposium (Room 515/516)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch (JMEC Atrium)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Workshop B1
Dr. Ginger Johnson, PhD - Led by Dr. Ginger Johnson PhD, President of Commercial BioConsulting at Lumanity
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Workshop B2
Dave Hurry - Led by Mr. Dave Hurry, Chief Data Officer for Koneksa and previous Executive Director of Computer Science at Merck
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Pitch Competition (Law Auditorium)
Judged by Dr. Kathleen Lee MD (Associate Chief Transformation Officer, Penn Medicine), Stephen Sammut MBA (Professor of Healthcare Management, The Wharton School), and Zack Gray MBA (CEO Ophelia, Y-Combinator and Wharton Alumnus) - APPLY HERE by September 30th
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Closing Keynote (Law Auditorium)
Jeff Marrazzo - Fireside Chat with Jeff Marrazzo, Co-Founder and Former Founding CEO of Spark Therapeutics
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM: 10 Years of PennHealthX Toast and Happy Hour (JMEC Atrium)
Join the PennHealthX board and our esteemed PennHealthX alumni for Happy Hour drinks and hors d'oeuvres to celebrate 10 years of HealthX, featuring toasts from key alumni and the current HealthX board.
2024 Mitchell J. Blutt Lecture
Register for this year’s Mitchell J. Blutt, C’78, M’82, WG’87 Visiting Professorship in Entrepreneurism and Medicine.
This year’s lecture will be held on Wednesday, November 13 from 12-2pm in the JMEC Atrium. Remarks begin at 12:20 and lunch will be served! PSOM is thrilled to have Arie Belldegrun, MD as this year’s featured speaker. Dr. Jon Epstein (PSOM Dean), Kevin Mahoney (UPHS CEO), as well as Mitchell J. Blutt, C’78, M’82, WG’87 will also be participating. If you would like to register, you can click here.
PennHealthX + CIS Class Happy Hour
PennHealthX and the School of Engineering at Penn are excited to putting together a fall Healthtech Social! Come network with students from across Penn and meet new friends, mentors, co-founders, and colleagues.
Who: PennHealthX members, and CIS 7000 course engineering students taught by CHOP pediatrician Kevin Johnson.
Where: JMEC Atrium
When: Wednesday, 10/30 at 5-7 pm
RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/NEZaQxPXuvWhzfMm7
Feel free to contact Michael Yao at michael.yao@pennmedicine.upenn.edu with any questions or concerns!
Speaker Series – “Lunch Talks”
PennHealthX also proudly hosts a “lunch talk” series featuring a diverse array of speakers who discuss their experiences and ventures across a wide variety of disciplines. These events are advertised toward and intended for MD Candidates within the Perelman School of Medicine.
November 2024
TBD
December 2024
TBD
October 2024
Dr. Subha Airan-Javia – Clinical Informatics + Automation