Almaden Institute
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- 2010 : Smarter Health through Modeling and Simulation
- 2009 : Scalable Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium Ion
- 2008 : Innovating with Information
- 2007 : Navigating Complexity: Doing more with less
- 2006 : Cognitive Computing
- 2005 : Transforming Healthcare with Information
- 2004 : Work in the era of the global, extensible enterprise
- 2003 : Symposium on Privacy
- 2002 : Autonomic Computing
- 2001 : Grand Challenges in Nanotechnology
Almaden Institute - 2010 : Smarter Health through Modeling and Simulation
The health of any nation is a complex system of systems - changes in agriculture, transportation, economics, family life, medical practices, and many other things can have a profound effect on population health and on overall health costs. Decisions that policy makers and health professionals make about investment in prevention and treatment programs for healthcare can lead to many complex system interactions and outcomes. For example, the treatment of chronic disease presents issues that the health sector alone cannot address. Problems such as obesity reflect cultural, social, educational, political, and economic conditions, as well as policies, practices, costs, and prices in a wide range of industries as diverse as advertising, transportation, agriculture, insurance, and more.
Today, policy-level investment decisions are frequently made based on data and models of individual systems in isolation. Yet, it is becoming increasingly important to take into account a broad range of concerns in health decision making - it is becoming technically possible to analyze, simulate, and model large and complex system interactions. But doing this raises substantial technical problems and substantial human problems. And it requires stakeholders from many different places and disciplines to work together - including those in government, industry, academia, non-profits, public policy, economics, medicine, and modeling, to name just a few.
The Almaden Institute 2010, which will be held April 28-29, 2010 will bring together experts from all these diverse domains to establish conversations and connections that will drive ecosystem-wide, fact-based, and scientifically sound decision making about health.
See the agenda for presentations and videos. All the videos will be available on the IBM Research - Almaden channel on YouTube.
We also invite you to join the conversation about the Almaden Institute on Twitter and IBM's Smarter Planet Blog. Please use the event hashtag #AI10 on Twitter and read commentary about the Institute at http://asmarterplanet.com/.
The Almaden Institute is held annually at IBM Research - Almaden in San Jose, California. The Institute brings together eminent, innovative thinkers from academia, government, industry, research labs, and the media for an intellectually charged, stimulating and vigorous discussion that addresses fundamental challenges at the very edge of science and technology. Previous topics include privacy, the future of work, cognitive computing, complexity, and energy storage.
The Institute format is designed to facilitate and foster discussion, debate, interaction, and networking. It is an invitation-only event. The agenda will be posted soon. For more information, contact one of the co-chairs, Paul Maglio or Pat Selinger.
Agenda
| Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | |||
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| 8:00 - 8:45 |
Continental Breakfast | Auditorium servery | |
| 8:45 - 9:00 |
Welcome |
Robert J. T. Morris Vice President, Service Research IBM Research - Watson |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 |
A Banquet of Consequences: Management Flight Simulators for Climate Change Policy |
John D. Sterman Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management Professor of Engineering Systems Director, System Dynamics Group MIT Sloan School of Management |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
IBM the Employer: Moving Healthcare Markets Through Innovation |
Martin J.
Sepulveda
IBM Fellow and Vice President Integrated Health Services, IBM Corporation |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Networking and refreshments | Auditorium servery | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Modeling and Simulation in Public Health |
Margaret
Brandeau Professor Department of Management, Science, and Engineering Stanford University |
12:30 - 1:00 |
A Conversation with Morris Collen |
Morris Collen Director Emeritus, Division of Research Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Marion J. Ball (Discussant) Senior Advisor, Healthcare and Life Sciences Institute, IBM Research Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1:00 - 2:15 |
Lunch | J2-609 | |
| 2:15 - 3:15 |
Vermont Blueprint for Health: Building a Foundation for Integrated Health Services |
Craig A. Jones Director, Vermont Blueprint for Health State of Vermont |
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| 3:15 - 4:15 |
Agent-Based Computational Modeling and Public Health |
Ross A. Hammond Senior Fellow Economic Studies Program The Brookings Institution |
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| 4:15 - 4:45 |
Networking and refreshments | Auditorium servery | |
| 4:45 - 6:00 |
Panel |
Sally Brailsford Professor of Management Science School of Management University of Southampton John Fontanesi Professor, School of Medicine Director, Center for Management Science in Health University of California, San Diego Patricia L. Mabry Senior Advisor Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research National Institutes of Health Paul P. Maglio (Moderator) Research Manager Smarter Planet Service Systems IBM Research - Almaden |
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| 6:00 - 8:00 |
Reception | ||
| Thursday, April 29, 2010 | |||
| 8:00 - 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast | Auditorium servery | |
| 8:30 - 8:45 |
Welcome |
Josephine
Cheng IBM Fellow and Vice President Director, IBM Research - Almaden |
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| 8:45 - 9:45 |
Improving Health and Health Care: A View From the Trenches |
Kevin Grumbach Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco Chief, Family and Community Medicine San Francisco General Hospital |
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| 9:45 - 10:45 |
Why Don't Information Industries Make a Greater Impact on Care Delivery? |
Terry Young Professor of Healthcare Systems School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics Brunel University |
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Networking and refreshments | Auditorium servery | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
A Framework for Simulation and Modeling in Healthcare and Public Health |
James
H. Kaufman Research Manager, Healthcare Information Infrastructure IBM Research - Almaden |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 |
On the Front Lines of the Food Revolution |
Tenley E. Albright Director MIT Collaborative Initiatives Fedele Bauccio Chief Executive Officer Bon Appetit Management Company Irving Wladawsky-Berger (Discussant) Visiting Lecturer, MIT Sloan School and Engineering Systems Division Adjunct Professor, Imperial College Business School |
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| 1:00 - 2:15 |
Lunch | J2-609 | |
| 2:15 - 3:15 |
Modeling the Healthcare Enterprise |
William B. Rouse Executive Director and Professor Tennenbaum Institute Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 3:15 - 4:15 |
Modeling Health Reform: Simulation Strategies and Challenges |
Federico
Girosi
Senior Policy Researcher RAND Corporation |
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| 4:15 - 4:45 |
Networking and refreshments | Auditorium servery | |
| 4:45 - 5:45 |
Modeling and the Sciences of Life |
W. Brian Arthur
External Professor Santa Fe Institute |
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| 5:45 - 6:00 |
Wrap up |
Paul
P. Maglio
and Pat
Selinger IBM Research - Almaden |
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