Schedule
06:00 PM-08:00 AM
President’s Welcome Reception
Sponsored and Hosted by Epicenter Memphis
Speakers:
- Ellen Boyer, President, Brett Boyer Foundation
- Stephanie McDaniel, President and CEO, Graeme McDaniel Foundation
- Youseph Yazdi, PhD, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering
Innovation & Design
08:00 AM
Pediatric Ground Rounds
Topic: Addressing the Critical Pediatric Device Shortage in the U.S. and Worldwide: Perspectives from the FDA Pediatric Device Consortia (PDC) Grants Program
Speakers:
- Welcome Remarks
- Jessica Snowden, MD, Vice Chancellor for Research, UT Health Sciences
- Presenter:
- Chester Koh, MD, Founder, Texas Children’s Pediatric Robotic Surgery Program and Executive Director, Southwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium
09:00 AM
Coffee Break
09:30 AM
Panel Discussion 1: Market Challenges: Funding and Scalability
Moderator: Olaf Schulz, Director of ZeroTo510 at Epicenter Memphis
Panelists:
- Kolaleh Eskandanian, Senior Research Scientist, MedStar-Georgetown and Program Director, SPARK for Innovations in Pediatrics Hub
- Emma Moran, Head of CobiCure MedTech
10:30 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Panel Discussion 2: Getting Pediatric Devices and Intellectual Property Through the Evidence and Regulatory Pathways
Moderator: James Wheless, MD, Director, Neuroscience Institute and Le Bonheur Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
Panelists:
- James Parrett, JD, PharmD, Vice President, University of Tennessee Research Foundation
- Gilson Capiluoto, PhD, Co-founder & Chief Clinical Officer, NFANT Labs, Inc.
- Ranjit Philip, MD, Director, Pediatric Cardiology Clinic, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
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Bret Alvis, MD, Associate Chief, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Rachel Brucker, Sr. Program Manager, Medtronic
12:00 PM
Lunch & Keynote Remarks: What is fundamentally different about developing medical technology for children?
Balakrishna Haridas, PhD, Professor Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University and Deputy Executive Director, Southwest Pediatric Devices Innovation Consortium
01:30 PM
Closing Plenary: AI & Imaging Innovations
Asif Padiyath, MBBS, Cardiac Anesthesiologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
02:30 PM
Adjourn
