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LA Times Interview with Obama Social Networking Guru...Scott Goodstein

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name the nation’s first-ever federal chief technology officer sometime soon. It’s not surprising that Obama plans a major emphasis on technology. His presidential campaign relied heavily on the latest forms of communication -– Internet Social Networks and Text-Messaging -– to organize volunteers, raise funds and get voters to the polls. Scott Goodstein ran the mobile communications for the president-elect's campaign. While most of this article focuses… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

New Member Update - Happy New Year! (Part 2)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

Please welcome the following new Members of the MedTechIQ community...

Academia:

Yvette Butler: HIV/AIDS

Alice Watland: COO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Washington, DC

Tracy W Messer, APR: Web Development & Communications

Brendan Janishefski: Graphic Design

Jay Srini: Innovation , healthcare policy and… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 8:15am — No Comments

New Member Update - Happy New Year! (Part 3)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

Please welcome the following new Members of the MedTechIQ community...

To search all new member updates, just click "Blogs" tab on the top of thew MedTechIQ homepage, and then enter "member update" in the "Search" box...And now, the last of this crop of new members!

Academia/NonProfit:

Craig H Llewellyn: Military… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

New Member Update - Happy New Year!

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

Please welcome new Members of the MedTechIQ "Networking & Learning" community...

Academia & NonProfit:

Rifat Latifi: Trauma, Telemedicine, surgery

Henry Etzkowitz: Triple Helix: university-industry-government interactions; entrepreneurial university, Women in science and technology

Chunyan Zhou: Innovation of Science and technology

University-industry-government… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 7:46am — No Comments

Invite/Call For Papers from MedTechIQ Member, Barbara Beckerman: 1st Annual Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biomedical Science & Engineering Center Conference

Dear Colleagues,

We are please to announce the 1st Annual Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference, to be held at ORNL (Oak Ridge, Tennessee), March 18-19, 2009. The conference theme is: Innovative, interdisciplinary research trends in biomedical technologies and research for maximum application-specific problem solving. There are three key target areas: Biomedical Informatics, Modeling and Simulation, and Measurement Science and Imaging… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 7, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2) - Free Online Training - RESEARCHER COMMERCIALIZATION

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

We want to bring to your attention an outstanding free training opportunity.

It will allow attendees to make an informed decision as to how to better plan their commercialization efforts, be it through employment, licensing, consulting, joint venturing or startup creation. Please forward this email to all researchers interested in learning how to commercialize their research.

The National Council of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 7, 2009 at 9:33am — No Comments

ATA (American Telemedicine Association) on Linkedin

Colleagues,

As I have previously mentioned, Linkedin is an incredible resource for the socially networked professional. Now I have another exciting development to report to you, especially if you are a supporter of telemedicine as a means to extend healthcare to the underserved and to optimize health & fitness, the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) has launched an ATA group on Linkedin. That's right, now you can link to other telemedicine experts using the powerful network… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 5, 2009 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Job opportunity for PhD, MD or equivalent with DOD/VA Dataset Experience - Washington DC Area.

Colleagues,

...Another job opportunity from the MedTechIQ on Linkedin group...

From Mike Snedecor, MD, MPH

Snedecor Healthcare Consulting, LLC

Job opportunity for PhD, MD or equivalent with extensive skill with longitudinal health datasets, preferably in the DoD or VA system. Washington DC area.

A colleague's company is looking to hire a full-time manager to work at the VA. Ideally, they would like a someone with health related experience in the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 29, 2008 at 10:18am — No Comments

Strengthening Biodefense Internationally: Illusion & Reality

Colleagues,

See compelling article attached from Marc L. Ostfield, PhD, Senior Advisor for Bioterrorism, Biodefense, and Health Security, U.S. Department of State, Office of International Health and Biodefense. Though the views he expresses in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. government, they are clearly insightful, well articulated and important for the MedTechIQ international audience to consider.… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 29, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

New Member Update & Joyful Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa & Eid Season (Part 2)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

More new members...

Academia:

Daniel Gottlieb: Neurological rehabilitation & neurology

Ankur Mittal: Consulting - Indian CRO Directory & Industry Tracker

Ye Yue: Medical training

Raymond T. Terrry, Sr., Ph.D: Delivery & Health Systems/Policy Development

Jim Hammond: Telemedicine, Network Topology, Medical Monitoring, TelePsychiatry, UTMB - Electronic… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 24, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

New Member Update & Joyful Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa & Eid Season (Part 1)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

December is a joyous time for people of all faiths...Happy Holidays all!

In the spirit of the season, lets welcome these new members of the MedTechIQ community...

Academia/Non-Profit:

Babs Soller: Patient monitoring, near infrared spectroscopy, tissue perfusion

David Devore: R&D management, including industrial and academic virtual network organizations; polymer, colloid… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 24, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

President-Elect Obama names Holdren, Varmus, Lander and Lubchenco to Key Scientific Posts

Colleagues,

As reported in Scientific American...President-elect Barack Obama recently named more top science advisors. John Holdren, a 64-year-old physicist and environmental policy professor at Harvard, will be his chief science adviser, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. Obama also named chairs of the Presidential Council of Advisers on Science and Technology: Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus and biologist Eric Lander, who heads the Broad Institute, a… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 23, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Healthcare Reform and Connected Health - Your input requested by Dec 31st

Colleagues,

See following post from MedTechIQ member, Dr Joseph Kvedar, Director, Center for Connected Health...

"...there is a possibility that disproportionate emphasis will be placed on increasing access to care through universal coverage and to traditional health information technology, or electronic medical records (EMRs)... I’d… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 23, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Institute of Med (IOM): U.S. Commitment to Global Health - Recommendations for New Administration

Colleagues,

As just released by IOM...GLOBAL HEALTH SHOULD BE KEY COMPONENT OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY...The U.S. should significantly intensify its commitment to global health in the next four years by increasing funding and placing greater importance on health when setting overall U.S. foreign policy, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine written to inform the incoming administration's future policies. To achieve this level of commitment, a White House Interagency Committee… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 17, 2008 at 5:59pm — No Comments

Final Call: World's Best Technology (WBT) Showcase - Technology Submissions, December 22

There is still time to submit a company or technology for the upcoming WBTshowcase. This elite national event showcases prescreened, cutting-edge, first-to-market companies and technologies emanating from the private sector, top universities, federal labs, agencies and research institutions, to an audience of the world's leading seed investors, venture capitalists and Fortune 1000 licensing experts.

There is No Cost to Apply and a $595 registration fee for those selected to… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 17, 2008 at 9:39am — No Comments

Job Listing: Project Manager (PM) position to plan and manage the delivery of business solutions

Title: Project Manager

Reports to: President and Chief Scientific Officer.

Based at: Health Analytics, LLC , Columbia, MD

Job purpose:

The primary purpose of the Project Manager (PM) position is to plan and manage the delivery of business solutions in the form of client project completion. This includes project planning, estimating, execution, implementation and ongoing support. Individual will work closely with the CSO to ensure the efficiency and… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 14, 2008 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Seeking Combination of Intelligent Antenna Technology for TD-SCDMA System and MIMO (#N-1)

Colleagues,

Please see newly posted Technology Search

Search Title: Combination of Intelligent Antenna Technology for TD-SCDMA System and MIMO

Search #: N-1

Issue Date:14 Dec 2008

"NextTechs" Technology or Patent Search Program Description

Overview

NextTechs is looking for technologies that will help evolve the current intelligent antenna… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 14, 2008 at 5:00am — No Comments

Next NIH Director Faces Budget Issues ... Health Agency Has Seen Funding Stall

Colleagues,

As reported in today's Washington Post...The director of the National Institutes of Health may be the least political of a president's political appointments.

The director's job is not to promote administration priorities -- in fact, it's the opposite. The chief, if unwritten, task is to keep the president and Congress from meddling with the agency.

The NIH this fiscal year will spend just under $29.5 billion on basic and applied medical research.… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

New Member Update - 13 December 2008

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

We have been joined by new MedTechIQ members. They include:

Academia/ Not For Profit:

Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP: Humanitarian medicine, Disaster medicine, public health, outbreak epidemiology, austere communications, collaboration techniques, cross-functional team dynamics

Ron Marchessault: Medical Device Research and Development, Technology Commercialization

Phil Weinfurt:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

Healing with Laser Heat Surgical lasers could soon heal cuts as well as make incisions.

Colleagues,

As reported in MIT Tech Review ... The promise of medical lasers goes beyond clean incisions and eye surgery: Many believe that lasers should be used not just to create wounds but to mend them too. Abraham Katzir, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, has a system that may just do the trick and is proving successful in its first human trials.

In principle, "laser-bonded" healing offers certain advantages over classic needle-and-thread sutures, including faster… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 11, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments