Speakers
The Health Innovations symposium will feature keynote speakers, panelists and moderators to help us navigate through groundbreaking advancements in neural and cancer research, as well as emerging fields such as AI in healthcare and health disparities.
Our confirmed speakers include:
Reginald DesRoches
President
Rice University
Amy Dittmar
Howard R. Hughes Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Rice University
Paul Cherukuri
Vice President for Innovation and Chief Innovation Officer
Rice University
James P. Allison, Ph.D.
Regental Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology; Vice President for Immunobiology; Founding Director of the James P Allison Institute
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Roberta L. Schwartz, PhD, FACHE
Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
Houston Methodist Hospital
Pavan Reddy
Director and Professor, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center; Senior Associate Dean of Cancer Programs
Baylor College of Medicine
Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Malcolm Gillis University Professor; Co-Director of Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies
Rice University
Giulio Taglialatela, PhD
Vice President, Brain Health; Director, Moody Brain Health Institute; Lawrence J. Del Papa Distinguished Chair In Neurodegenerative Disease Research
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Michael King
E.D. Butcher Chair of Bioengineering; Special Advisor to the Provost on Life Science Collaborations with the Texas Medical Center; Associate Vice President for Research, Physical and Life Sciences and Engineering
Rice University
Eric J. Thomas, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine; Associate Dean for Healthcare Quality; Director, The UTHealth-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Marcia O'Malley
Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rice University
John D. Hazle, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Imaging Physics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Lydia Kavraki
Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing; Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering; Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Responsible AI and Computing for Global Impact
Rice University
Omid Veiseh
Professor of Bioengineering; Director of Rice Biotechnology Launch Pad
Rice University
Jacob Robinson
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech
Rice University
Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston
Shreela Sharma, PhD, RDN, LD
Professor & Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology; Director, Center for Health Equity
School of Public Health at UTHealth Houston
Chris Fagundes
Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences
Rice University
Emily Reiser
Director, Strategy and New Ventures
TMC Innovation
Dr. Laurence Court
Professor, Department of Radiation Physics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gang Bao
Foyt Family Professor, Department of Bioengineering; CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Rice University
Sharmila Anandasabapathy, M.D.
Professor of Medicine in Gastroenterology, Senior Associate Dean & Vice President of Global Programs
Baylor College of Medicine
Todd J. Treangen
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Bioengineering (affiliated faculty member); AI2Health Cluster Lead, Ken Kennedy Institute for Responsible AI and Computing for Global Impact
Rice University
Valentin Dragoi
Rosemary and Daniel J. Harrison III Presidential Dist. Chair in Neuroprosthetics, Houston Methodist
Professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College
Professor, Rice University, Neuroengineering Initiative
Scientific Director, Methodist-Rice Center for Neural Systems Restoration
Ashu Sabharwal
Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University
John Seymour
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, McGovern School of Medicine at UTHealth Houston
Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University
This event is hosted by Rice University's Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health (ENRICH). If you have any questions, please contact us at enrich@rice.edu
