Sunday, January 29, 2012

New Drug Discovery in Ophthalmology


Panel # 3: 5:00 PM -- 5:30 PM

Title: New Drug Discovery in Ophthalmology

Panel Members:

NAME

COMPANY

Vicente Anido, Jr., PhD

President & CEO, ISTA Pharmaceuticals

Stephen Knight, MD

Managing Partner, Fidelity Biosciences

Sabri Markabi, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Senior VP of Research and Development, Alcon

Cal Roberts, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Executive VP, Bausch & Lomb

Development and Commercialization of New Medical Devices


Panel # 2: 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Title: Development and Commercialization of New Medical Devices

Panel Members:

NAME

COMPANY

Leonard R. Borrmann

Executive BP of Research and Development, AMO

Mark Forchette

President & CEO, Optimedica

Julian S. Gangolli

Corporate VP and President, North America, Allergan

Brent Saunders

CEO, Bausch + Lomb

Bascom Palmer Entrepreneurs












Panel # 1: 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Title: Bascom Palmer Entrepreneurs -- The Road

Panel Members:

NAME

COMPANY

Mark S. Blumenkranz, MD

Founder, Optimedica

Steve T. Charles, MD

Serial Inventor (>100 patents)

Jean-Marie Parel, PhD

Henri and Flore Lesieur Chair in

Ophthalmology

Associate Research Professor

Stephen C. Pflugfelder, MD

Inventor, dry eye diagnostic and therapeutics

Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA

Inventor, Optical Coherence Tomography

Dean, School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Scheffer C.G. Tseng, MD, PhD

Founder, Bio-Tissue

Bascom Palmer Innovations




This Friday, February 3, 2012 I will be hosting a session of leaders, both from Industry and Entrepreneurs, who have been Innovators and made a large impact in medicine. Please join me and our guests, 4:00 - 5:30 pm at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.