As part of our ongoing effort to engage with the community of healthcare innovators, healthspottr is hosting monthly Innovation Salons. These are evening events, where we gather together a group of healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, industry executives and care providers for an intimate dinner. We pick a current topic or challenge facing the industry, and over the meal our group discusses new ways to address it -- collectively, and through individual innovative efforts.   

Our first dinner troupe considered the challenges facing primary care. Tonight, our party will debate the future of diagnostics and personalized medicine: "Diagnostics without Therapeutics: A Bride Without a Groom?" We are privileged to host another experience-rich and diverse party. The evening ought to produce some valuable new ideas. As before, several of our guests are members of the future health 100. The complete guest list follows.

As a warm-up, below we share additional video clips from our earlier salon, "Reinventing Primary Care." Check out the thoughts of James Currier, founder of Medpedia, and Dr. Jordan Shlain, founder of Current Health and HealthLoop. Look for video clips form tonight's even next week!

"Diagnostics without Therapeutics: A Bride Without a Groom?"  

August 20th, 2009

Confirmed attendees:

Adam Bosworth, CEO of  KEAS
Simon Daniel, CEO Moixa Design & Moixa Energy
James Currier, founder of Medpedia
Tom DeLay, Senior Vice Presicent, U.S. Trust, Bank of America
Michael Goldberg, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Bill Hangstrom, CEO of Crescendo Bioscience
Dr. Jerold Hawn, Oregon Cardiology
Margaret Ikeya, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
David Levinson, CEO of CardioDx
Dr. Chris Longhurst, Medical Director, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Dr. Jack Lord, CEO of Navigenics
Paul Martino, HMC/WellPoint
Paul Meyer, Counsel, O'Melveny & Meyers
Christopher P. Michel, Managing Director, Nautilus Ventures
Dr. Rahul Parikh, Permanente Medical Group
Bryan Roberts, Partner, Venrock
Dr. James O. Rubin, CEO, Tenzing Health
Dr. Randy Scott, Executive Chairman, Genomic Health
Dr. Jordan Shlain, founder and Medical Director, Current Health
Risa Stack, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Dr. Greg Went, CEO of Adamas Pharmaceutials