Short Courses*
March 1-3, 2020 | Moscone South Convention Center
Cambridge Healthtech Institute is pleased to offer short courses taking place on Sunday-Tuesday at the Moscone South Convention Center. The short courses are designed to be instructional, interactive, and provide in-depth information on a specific topic. They allow for one-on-one interaction and provide a great way to explain more technical aspects that would otherwise not be covered during the main conference programs that take place Monday-Wednesday.
Sunday, March 1 | 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Afternoon Short Courses)
SC1: Trends and Factors Impacting the Genetic Testing Landscape
Jeanette McCarthy, MPH, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke University; Founder, Precision Medicine Advisors
SC2: Development and Implementation of NGS Diagnostics for Precision Medicine
Karl V. Voelkerding, MD, Professor, Pathology, University of Utah; Medical Director for Genomics and Bioinformatics, ARUP Laboratories
Additional Instructors to be Announced
SC3: Targeted Protein Degradation as a New Therapeutic Approach
Alexander Statsyuk, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston
Shaomeng Wang, PhD, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry; Co-Director, Molecular Therapeutics Program and Director, Cancer Drug Discovery Program, University of Michigan
Ingrid Wertz, MD, PhD, Senior Scientist, Departments of Molecular Oncology and Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, Inc.
SC4: Introduction to Data Visualization for Biomedical Applications
Nils Gehlenborg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Lex, PhD, Assistant Professor, SCI Institute, School of Computing, University of Utah
SC5: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Drug Discovery and Development – Part 1
Michael Liebman, PhD, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Arvind Rao, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
Shruthi Bharadwaj, PhD, Senior Scientist, Novartis Oncology Precision Medicine
Additional Instructors to be Announced
SC6: Translating CTCs and ctDNA for Clinical Use
Sonya Parpart-Li, PhD, RAC, Associate Director, Product Management, GRAIL, Inc.
Gozde Durmus, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine
Prachi Kothari, DO, Assistant Attending, Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
SC7: A Primer on Digital Biomarkers and Measurement in the Connected Era
Andy Coravos, CEO & Co-Founder, Elektra Labs
Mark Shervey, Vice President, Engineering, Elektra Labs
Christine Manta, MS, RD, Research Project Manager, Elektra Labs
Sunday, March 1 | 5:30 - 8:30 pm (Dinner Short Courses)
SC9: Companion Diagnostics for Immuno-Oncology
Ken Emancipator, MD, Executive Medical Director, Companion Diagnostics & Translational Medicine, Merck & Co., Inc.
Deepti Aurora-Garg, Director, Companion Diagnostics, Merck & Co., Inc.
Mary J. Savage, Scientific Director, Merck & Co., Inc.
SC10: Microfluidics and Other Devices for POCT
Chris Myatt, Founder & CEO, MBio Diagnostics, Inc.
Additional Instructors to be Announced
SC11: Genome Editing with CRISPR: Toward Novel Research, Translational, and Clinical Applications
Serguei Kozlov, PhD, MBA, PMP, Principal Scientist/PM, Team Leader PTO, Center for Advanced Preclinical Research, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (NCI)
SC12: Liquid Biopsy Technologies and Applications
John Simmons, PhD, Vice President, Translational Medicine, Personal Genome Diagnostics
SC13: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Drug Discovery and Development – Part 2
Michael Liebman, PhD, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Kuan-Fu Ding, MSc, PhD, CSO and CTO, Cubismi, Inc.
Pankaj Agarwal, PhD, Chief Computational Biologist, BioInfi
Deepak Kumar Rajpal, PhD, Head, Bioinformatics, Translational Sciences, Sanofi
Stefan Harrer, PhD, Manager and Research Staff Member, Brain-Inspired Computing, IBM Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering and Information Science, University of Technology Sydney
SC14: Hands-On with Biomedical Data Visualization Tools and Programming Libraries
Nils Gehlenborg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Lex, PhD, Assistant Professor, SCI Institute, School of Computing, University of Utah
Monday, March 2 | 8:00 - 11:00 am (Morning Short Courses)
SC17: NGS as a Testing Platform: Technology, Clinical Applications, and Global Standardization Strategies
Birgit Funke, PhD, FACMG, Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Veritas Genetics; Associate Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Madhuri Hegde, PhD, Vice President, CSO, Global Lab Services, PerkinElmer, Inc.; Adjunct Professor, Emory University
SC18: Commercialization Boot Camp for Diagnostics: State of the State**
Harry Glorikian, MBA, General Partner, New Ventures Funds
Stan Skrzypczak, MS, MBA, Former Vice President, Corporate Development and Reimbursement, Guardant Health, Inc.
SC19: NGS for Infectious Disease Diagnostics
Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Lab Medicine and Infectious Diseases; Director, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center; Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco
SC20: Digital Pathology: A-Z for Beginners
Matthew G. Hanna, MD, Clinical Instructor, Breast and Informatics, Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
SC21: Liquid Biopsy: Detection, Characterization, and Clinical Applications of Circulating Biomarkers
Catherine Alix-Panabières, PhD, Director, Laboratory of Rare Human Circulating Cells (LCCRH), Pathology and Onco-Biology Department, University Medical Center of Montpellier, France
Klaus Pantel, MD, Professor and Founding Director, Institute of Tumor Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
SC22: Digital Medicine 101
Elena Izmailova, PhD, CSO, Koneksa Health
Joris van Dam, PhD, Head, Digital Therapeutics, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Tuesday, March 3 | 6:30 - 9:30 pm (Dinner Short Courses)
SC25: Coverage and Reimbursement for Advanced Diagnostics
Katherine Tynan, PhD, CEO, President, Tynan Consulting LLC
Lon Castle, MD, CMO, Molecular Genetics & Personalized Medicine, eviCore
Victoria Pratt, PhD, FACMG, Director, Pharmacogenomics and Molecular Genetics Laboratories, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine; President, Association of Molecular Pathology
SC26: Gene Editing and Base Editing for Cell Therapies
Clifford Steer, MD, Professor of Medicine and, Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development; Director, Molecular Gastroenterology Program, University of Minnesota Medical School
Ross Wilson, PhD, Project Scientist & Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley
Additional Instructors to be Announced
SC27: Early Cancer Detection
Nicholas Dracopoli, PhD, CSO, DELFI Diagnostics
Girish Putcha, MD, CMO, Clinical Laboratory Director, Freenome
SC28: Global Companion Diagnostic Commercialization Boot Camp
Charles Mathews, Principal, ClearView Healthcare Partners
SC29: How Molecular Multiplex Testing for Infectious Disease Is Shaping Up
Lawrence J. Worden, Founder, Principal, IVD Logix
Lucy Hattingh, MBA, Principal, Lucy Hattingh Consulting
SC30: Digital Therapeutics 101
Shrawan Patel, Vice President & Head, Clinical Transformation, Rx.Health
Adam Kaufman, PhD, President & CEO, Canary Health
Ardy Arianpour, CEO & Co-Founder, Seqster
SC31: Multi-Modal Data Integration
Casey Greene, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Additional Instructors to be Announced
*Separate Registration is required, or choose up to 3 in the All Access Pass.
* The program is subject to change without notice, due to unforeseen reason.
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