CIMIT (Center for Integrating Medicine & Innovative Technology) Innovation Congress 2008...Forging Partnerships in Healthcare

The CIMIT Innovation Congress 2008 is a unique interactive conference featuring national leaders who are shaping the future by facilitating innovative public-private partnerships to drive change in healthcare. The purpose of this year’s convening is to explore and encourage networking to enable the development of meaningful partnerships between healthcare organizations in academia, government and industry.


Keynote Speakers
Listen as these national leaders explore how public-private partnerships can and will drive change.

Elias Zerhouni, MD
Director, National Institutes of Health
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LTG James Peake (ret.), MD
US Secretary for Veterans Affairs
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Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, MD
Commander, Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
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Steve Oesterle, MD
Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology, Medtronic
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Thomas J. Miller,
CEO, Workflow & Solutions, Siemens Healthcare
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CIMIT Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is the hallmark of the CIMIT Innovation Congress — where technology innovation comes to life. Unlike any other exhibit hall, the Exploratorium highlights interactive, hands-on demonstrations of emerging technologies by both interdisciplinary teams from academia and their visionary counterparts from industry. The Exploratorium provides a one-of-its-kind glimpse into the future of healthcare — where attendees see, learn, and experience firsthand the breakthroughs that are driving innovation in healthcare and beginning to forge partnerships between academia, government and industry.