[bioundgrd] MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference: Saturday, May 6th

[Rachel McPherson]

How technology will revolutionize health care is the focus of MIT 
Sloan's BioInnovations Conference on May 6, 2006

  MIT Sloan School of Management kicks off its 2nd Annual 
BioInnovations Conference with panel discussions addressing:

- Cost improvements in healthcare
- Error prevention in the next generation hospital
- Personalized medicine
- Bio-surveillance
- Diagnostic imaging
- Healthcare in the developing world

  Speakers will include, among others:

- John Glaser, MD, Vice President and CIO Partners HealthCare. He was 
honored with the John Gall award for health care CIO of the year in 
2003.

- Una Ryan, Ph.D., OBE, is president and CEO of AVANT 
Immunotherapeutics, Inc., and chairwoman of the Massachusetts 
Biotechnology Council. She will speak about leading a company that is 
developing vaccines for diseases plaguing the developing world.

- Dr. Raju Kucherlapati, a founder of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and 
current scientific director of the Harvard Center for Genetics and 
Genomics, will address personalized medicine.

The conference is organized by the MIT Sloan BioMedical Business 
Club. For more information about the conference and to register, 
please visit: www.bioinnovations2006.org

Early Registration Discounts offered thru April 30th!
- $100 - Professionals
- $80 - MIT Alumni
- $25 - Students

This year's conference is made possible through the generous 
sponsorship of: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Goulston & Storrs, and Pfizer.
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