MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference 2014

Looking for a reason to visit Boston? Don't miss the MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference 2014 coming up in a few weeks.

MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference 2014
Precision Medicine & Impact of Innovation on Targeted Care
Friday February 28, 2014, 8:30 AM – 6:20 PM
Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel, Kendall Square, Cambridge MA

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Dr George Church, Ph.D., Wyss Institute of Synthetic Biology & Director of Personal Genome Project
• Mr Alex Azar, President, Eli Lilly USA, former Deputy Secretary of US Department of Health and Human Services
• Mr Kieran Murphy, President, CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences

Learn more here: http://www.web.mit.edu/sloanhcc/bioinnovations/2014/

2013 MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference

Don't miss the 2013 MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference

Date: Friday, Feb. 22, 2013

Boston Marriott Cambridge
2 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142

Keynote Speakers:

Jeff Leiden, M.D., PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

David P. Meeker, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Genzyme

Stephen H. Rusckowski.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Quest Diagnostics

Panel Segment:
From pricing and reimbursement, to drugs of the future, our healthcare expert panelists will debate the most pressing topics in today's evolving healthcare climate.

http://www.web.mit.edu/sloanhcc/bioinnovations/2013/index.html

MIT Sloan BioInnovations 2012 Conference

If you're looking for a reason to visit Boston, here it is:

MIT Sloan BioInnovations 2012 Conference
Date: Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

Location:
Boston Marriott Cambridge
2 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142

MIT Sloan BioInnovations 2012 brings together thought leaders from industry, academia, and government to discuss current issues impacting two healthcare growth drivers: innovation and entrepreneurship. We will focus on the study of several paradigm-shifting trends: personalized medicine that creates more value, new business models that sustain innovation, healthcare financing that nurtures entrepreneurship, and emerging market healthcare that tackles global challenges. The conference promises to deliver quality insights and healthy debates surrounding these topics in the healthcare industry, as well as provides excellent opportunity for new business ideas and professional development.

Learn more about the MIT Sloan BioInnovations 2012 Conference here.

MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference 2011

MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference 2011
Register today!

The 8th Annual MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference, taking place on March 4th at 8:30 A.M in the Boston Marriott Cambridge, brings together thought leaders from industry and academia to discuss important topics applicable across the health care industries.

Steve Rusckowski, CEO of Philips Healthcare, and Peter Hecht, CEO of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals will deliver keynote speeches in addition to our panel discussions about the challenges of regulatory uncertainty and R&D productivity as well as the opportunities of next generation technologies and emerging markets. Our panelists come from the top companies across pharma, biotech, medical devices and support services including Pfizer, Genentech, Merck and Genzyme, and innovative emerging firms like SmartCell and AMAG Pharma.

Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy

If you're in the Boston area, you won't want to miss this symposium as MIT celebrates 150 years:

Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy

Thursday, January 27, 2011 - Friday, January 28, 2011
Location: Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue

This symposium will celebrate the role of MIT's faculty and students in advancing the fields of economics and finance, in putting the latest developments into practice, and in contributing to the design of public policy.

A series of six panels, which will include Nobel laureates, policy makers, and academic and industry experts, will address three broad questions:

* What are the key recent scientific developments and the major unresolved issues of economics and finance?
* What are the central challenges in economic policy?
* How can one assess the contributions of, and limitations of, recent advances in financial economics?

Faculty leads

* Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, Sloan School of Management
* James M. Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics
* Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics

MIT OpenCourseWare

If you're looking for some free business education, you should take a look at MIT OpenCourseWare. It's almost like free business school (but you won't get a degree or a certificate).

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

TIME Magazine selects MIT OpenCourseWare as one of its 50 best websites of 2010.

In 2009, OCW's Highlights for High School portal was named a Landmark Website for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians.

For business and management education, you can view the Sloan School of Management courses here.

http://ocw.mit.edu

MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference 2010 is tomorrow

As an MIT alum, I'm always glad to promote MIT activities. Tomorrow, the MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference will take place (March 12, 2010). It's a one-day event that will take place in the Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel, Kendall Square, Cambridge MA. I really wish I could be there. I also wish I could be a member of the MIT Sloan BioMedical Business Club. Since I'm employed full-time, I can't practically go to HIMSS, the MIT Sloan BioInnovations conference, the MD/MBA conference, the Medical Fusion conference, and still have time for family vacations.

My wife and I have been visiting Boston almost every year because we miss MIT so much. We look for every opportunity to visit Boston (and we'll be there in April).  

BioInnovations 2010 is the premier forum for leading thinkers from industry, academia, and government to discuss the next wave of innovations in life science technology, policy, and commercialization.

Learn more here: http://web.mit.edu/bbc/bioinnovations/2010/index.html

The Nonlinear Career Path of an Entrepreneur

Bright Horizon's founder Linda Mason tells an inspiring story as a recession-era entrepreneur who built several hugely successful, socially oriented ventures, navigating very real pitfalls and challenges along the way. Her “nonlinear path” yielded important life lessons, which she shares in this talk.

Hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Management as part of the Dean's Innovative Leader Series.

MIT Sloan Executive Education: The power to turn crisis into opportunity

I'm a big fan of executive education. I'm a believer in lifelong education. I suppose every physician has to be, right? We're all called to continue our medical education through various certified CME (continuing medical education) courses.

Aside from medical education, what about executive education? MIT Sloan offers several executive education courses. If you're an MIT alumni, you can save 20% by using a special referral code. You can work your way to getting an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate if you complete enough courses. The areas of concentration include:

• Strategy and Innovation
• Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management
• Management and Leadership

So, what are you waiting for? Did you know that MIT Sloan Executive Education also has a Twitter account? Follow @MITSloanExecEd and don't forget to follow me @DrJosephKim