Program at a Glance

12 November 2020

Opening Remarks  9:45 am – 10:00 am EST
Symposium #1: Grand Challenges in COVID-19 Healthcare 10:00 am – 1:30 pm  EST
Moderator: Metin Akay

• Biykem Bozkurt MD, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
   “COVID-19 and Heart”

• Kristl Vonck, MD, Ph.D., Ghent University
 “Challenges related to the effect of COVID19 on BRAIN and Neurological Diseases”

John Torous, MD, MBI, Harvard Medical School
    “Digital Mental Health”

• Lisa Cosimi, MD, Harvard Medical School
   “Testing for SARS-CoV-2 – Pitfalls and Ongoing Challenges”

Michael J Tuite, MD, FACR, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
  “Radiology Department operational challenges during COVID-19”

• Jennifer Radin, Ph.D., Scripps Research Translational Institute
   “Harnessing wearable data to improve real-time detection of COVID-19”

13 November 2020

Symposium #2: Grand Challenges in COVID-19 Screening 10:00 am – 1:30 pm  EST
Moderator: Colin Brenan

• Nancy Gagliano, MD, MBA, NIBIB
   “Challenges in Implementing COVID-19 Screening”

• David Walt, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Ultra-Sensitive Protein Assays for Understanding COVID-19″

• Achillefs Kapanidis, Ph.D., University of Oxford
   “Rapid viral detection using single-particle imaging and deep learning”

• Ali Tinazli, Ph.D., Fluxergy
 “How the COVID-19 Exposes the Flaws of Current Health Testing”

• Andrea Zanchettin, Ph.D., Politecnico di Milano
“A collaborative robotic solution to partly automate SARS-CoV-2 serological tests”

• Eva van Rikxoort, Ph.D., Thirona
“Artificial intelligence to Screen for COVID-19 on CT- and X-ray images”

• Jeffrey Kanne, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
“COVID-19: Imaging Considerations”

Steven C Schachter, MD, Harvard Medical School
    “RADx Tech: A New Paradigm for MedTech Development”

14 November 2020

Symposium #3: Grand Challenges in COVID-19 Tracing   10:00 am – 1:30 pm EST
Moderator: Paolo Bonato

• Ross Zafonte, DO, Harvard Medical School
 “COVID-19: Background Problems and Long-term Sequalae”

• Jeff Palmer, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   “Technologies for COVID-19 Tracing, Monitoring, and Response”

• Lauren Ancel Meyers, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
   “Modeling to Mitigate the COVID-19 Pandemic”

• Yuan-Ting Zhang, Ph.D., City University of Hong Kong
” Wearable SUPER-MINDS for the Precise Control of COVID and CVD”

• Ramesh Raskar, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 “PathCheck Foundation’s Smartphone-based Crowdsourced Epidemiology for Management of Trace, Test and Vaccines”

• John Rogers, Ph.D., Northwestern University
“Advanced Wearables and Novel Biomarkers for COVID-19”

• Brian Subirana, Ph.D., The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   “Artificial Intelligence Orthogonal Biomarkers for the Simultaneous Onset Diagnosis of COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s”

• Vasilis Marmarelis, Ph.D., The University of Southern California
   “Predictive dynamic modeling and decomposition of Covid-19 dynamics in terms of infection waves”

15 November 2020

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Symposium #4: Grand Challenges in COVID-19 Treatment 10:00 am – 1:30 pm EST
Moderator: Shankar Subramaniam

• Hanneke Schuitemaker, Ph.D., Johnson & Johnson
 “Janssen’s efforts in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine”

• Barney S. Graham, MD, Ph.D., NIAID Vaccine Research Center
“Rapid Development of COVID-19 Vaccines”

• Maria Elena Bottazzi, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital
 “COVID-19 Vaccines: Ensuring their Success for Global Access”

• Bali Pulendran, Ph.D., Stanford School of Medicine
Systems immunology of COVID-19 infection and vaccination

• Liang Schweizer, Ph.D., HiFiBiO Therapeutics
 “Development of an Effective Neutralizing Antibody to Treat COVID 19”

Neil King, Ph.D., University of Washington
  “Computational design of two-component nanoparticle vaccines”

• Beth Jaworski, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
 “COVID Coach: Digital Strategies for Addressing the Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19”

Closing Remarks 1:30 pm EST