8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Registration and Meet & Greet Networking with Breakfast
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM
Welcome Remarks and Program Outline
Atam Dhawan, Ph.D., Chief Strategic Innovation Officer, Senior Vice Provost for Research and Executive Director, Center for Translational Research
John Pelesko, Ph.D., Interim President, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Pradeep Fulay, Ph.D., Program Director, NSF – Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Program, Technology, Innovation and Partnership (TIP) Directorate (TBC)
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM
Distinguished Keynote Session: Sustainable Global Healthcare and Technology Innovations in Personalized, Predictive and Preventive Healthcare - HealthTech, Digital Health and AI Trends
Session Description: In this session, leaders from federal agency - NIH, industry, healthcare and venture sectors will share their vision and perspectives in building partnerships ecosystems for personalized, predictive and preventive healthcare through HealthTech, Digital Health and AI Trends in technology translation, validation and commercialization towards improving patient-centric precision global healthcare.
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM
Distinguished Keynote-1: HealthTech, Digital Health and AI Trends - NIH Perspective
Tiffani Lash, Ph.D., Program Director, NIH-NIBIB Point-of-Care Research Network
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Distinguished Keynote-2: HealthTech, Digital Health and AI Trends - Industry Perspective
Robert Cohen, Vice President, Innovation and Technology, Orthopedics, Stryker
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Distinguished Keynote-3: HealthTech, Digital Health and AI Trends - Clinical and Healthcare Information Perspective
Joel Klein, M.D., Executive Vice President / Chief Digital and Information Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Distinguished Keynote-4: HealthTech, Digital Health and AI Trends - Translational Ecosystem Perspective
Steven Schachter, MD, Chief Academic Officer for the Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology (CIMIT), Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Co-PI, NIH POCTRN Coordinating Center
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Q&A with Distinguished Keynote Speakers
Moderator: Atam Dhawan, Ph.D., Chief Strategic Innovation Officer, NJIT
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM: Coffee Break
10:10 AM – 11:10 AM
Fireside Chat Session: Funding and Investments in Translational Research and Innovation Ecosystems
Session Description: In this session, leaders from Defense Health Agency, State of New Jersey Government, and Venture sectors will share their perspectives and funding opportunities to support building partnerships ecosystems in personalized, predictive and preventive healthcare for technology translation, validation and commercialization in HealthTech using Digital Health with AI tools for improving global healthcare.
Barry Datlof, Chief, Business Development & Commercialization, Medical Technology Transfer, Defense Health Agency
Michael Wiley, Vice President, Foundation Venture Capital Group and New Jersey Health Foundation
Walida Ali, Director, Programming and Partnerships, Portal Innovations, NJ Innovation Hub – The Helix
Moderator: Arunan Skandarajah, Founder and Principal, Nalam Ventures, Former Small Business Manager and Translational R&D and Commercialization Lead, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
11:10 AM -12:10 PM
Distinguished Panel Session: Information Systems, AI and Integrated Technology Innovations in Personalized and Preventive Healthcare
Session Description: In this session, clinicians and leaders from industry and academia sectors will discuss recent development in cross-disciplinary information systems and AI to support personalized, predictive and preventive healthcare applications towards improving precision global healthcare.
Jennifer D'Angelo, Interim President, New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII)
Olga Troyanskaya, Ph.D., Professor, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Department of Computer Science, Princeton University (Princeton Precision Health: An interdisciplinary, AI-driven approach to tackling big questions about health and disease)
Lucia Mirabella, Vice President of AI Strategy and Business Development, SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS
Nikhil Thaker, MD , Medical Director and Chair of Radiation Oncology | Deputy Editor, AI in Precision Oncology, Capital Health
Moderator: Steven Golombek, M.D., President and Medical Doctor at Arthritis and Allergy Associates, PC
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Distinguished Keynote-5: Advancing Personalized Healthcare by Enabling Scalable Drugs & Device Ecosystem
Session Description: This keynote will focus a global industry perspective on recent advances in biopharma production and opportunities in building drugs and medtech innovation ecosystem for personalized and precision healthcare.
Nandkumar Deorkar, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Avantor
Moderator: Atam Dhawan, Ph.D., Chief Strategic Innovation Officer, NJIT
12:30 PM - 1:10 PM
Lunch and Networking
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
Distinguished Panel Session: Technology Translation and Partnership Ecosystems in P3HI
Session Description: This session will focus on current and future trends and challenges in building innovation partnerships ecosystems to support, facilitate and accelerate multi- and inter-disciplinary translation research, application validation and technology commercialization for personalized, predictive and preventive healthcare.
Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD, Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science; Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science; Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS)
Debbie Hart, President & CEO, BioNJ
Chrissy Buteas, President & CEO, HealthCare Institute of New Jersey
Conner Herman, Founder and CEO, Percy
Moderator: Craig Arnold, Ph.D., Vice Dean of Innovation, Princeton University
2:10 PM - 3:25 PM
Distinguished Academic Research and Innovation Translation Panel Session
Session Description: This session will focus on some of the emerging technologies under translational research in academia for clinically meaningful healthcare applications and multi-disciplinary application validation towards technology commercialization for personalized, predictive and preventive healthcare utilizing HealthTech, Digital Health and AI tools.
Lin Dong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NJIT (Cardiac Patch – Heart health monitoring)
Elisa A. Kallioniemi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, NJIT (AI-Guided Robotic System for Precision Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)
Li Cai, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University
Peter Galie, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rowan University
Jennifer J. Kang-Mieler, Ph.D., George Meade Bond Endowed Professor, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Semcer Center for Healthcare Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology
Moderator: Michael (Mike) Zwick, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research and Professor, Genetics, Rutgers University
3:25 PM - 3:40 PM
Closing Remarks and Open Forum: Building P3HI Ecosystem in NJ
Moderators: Atam Dhawan and Arunan Skandarajah
In this open-forum, current and future trends in supporting translational research, validation and technology commercialization for clinically meaningful healthcare applications addressing unmet needs and challenges in personalized, predictive and preventive healthcare will be discussed towards next steps in building resources and multi-stakeholders based disciplinary innovation partnerships ecosystems.
3:40 PM – 4:45 PM
Translational Research and Technology Showcase in P3HI
Moderator: Shawn Chester, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Research Collaborations and Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NJIT
The CTR P3HI Workshop Industry-University-Clinical-Community showcase will feature e-posters and information exhibits on resources and ongoing technology developments, translation research and validation programs towards commercialization in personalized, predictive and preventive healthcare with HealthTech, Digital Health and AI.
