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2012 Keynote Speakers
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Elizabeth Baron |
Director of the VR Lab, Ford Motor Company |
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David G. Benditt |
MD, FACC, FRCP(C), FHRS, FESC, Professor, Medicine Cardiology Division, University of Minnesota |
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Richard Boyd |
Chief Architect, Lockheed Martin Virtual World Labs |
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Norman Dann |
Adjunct Asstistant Professor, Innovation Fellows Program, Medical Device Center, University of Minnesota; Recipient of the 2012 Design of Medical Devices Conference Award |
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Brian Fitzgerald |
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
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Al Franken |
U.S. Senator |

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Bin He |
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Director, Center for Neuroengineering, University of Minnesota |
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Amy Klobuchar |
U.S. Senator |
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Birali Runesha |
Director of Research Computing, University of Chicago |
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Randy Schiestl |
Vice President of Global Operations and Technology, Engineering Services Group, Boston Scientific Corporation |
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Yoshiyuki Taenaka |
Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center,
Osaka, Japan |
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Thomas B. Talbot |
USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Chief Scientist, TATRC Armed Forces Simulation Institute for Medicine
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Matthew Tirrell |
Pritzker Director, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago |
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Dale Wahlstrom |
President and CEO, LifeScience Alley and BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota™ |
2012 Featured Speakers
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Sylvain Baillet, PhD |
Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery,
Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Director, MEG Research |
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Christopher K. Breuer, MD |
Associate Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics) and of Pediatrics, Director of Tissue Engineering,
Yale School of Medicine |
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Afshin A. Divani, PhD |
FAHA, Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology Director of Stroke Research, University of Minnesota |
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Ellis Meng, PhD |
Associate Professor, Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California |
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Michael Morton |
Senior Director, Corporate Regulatory Affairs, Medtronic, Inc. |
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Tina Morrison, PhD |
Mechanical and Biomedical Engineer, Food and Drug Administration |
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Steve Parente, PhD |
Director, Medical Industry Leadership Institute,
Professor and Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance, Department of Finance |
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Commissioner Mark Phillips |
Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) |
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Urs Schneider, MD, PhD |
Department Orthopedics & Motion Systems, Fraunhofer Institute IPA |
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William Stacey, MD, PhD |
Neurology Department, University of Michigan |
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William J. Weiss, PhD |
Howard E. Morgan Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering, Penn State Hershey Medical Center |
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Changfu Wu, PhD |
Circulatory Support and Prosthetics Branch, Division of Cardiovascular Devices, Office of Device Evaluation, Center for Devices & Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration |
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Euisik Yoon, PhD |
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan |
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