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International Health Entrepreneurship Conference

  • 1.  International Health Entrepreneurship Conference

    Posted 02-15-2012 14:28

    We would like to invite you to the 1st annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health (IEH). Jointly sponsored by Oklahoma State University, Indiana University, San Diego State University, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and the University of Pretoria, South Africa, the conference will be held in Oklahoma City on March 5-6, 2012.

     

    This inaugural conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health reflects a growing need to transform todays' dysfunctional health care systems into one in which creative and innovative solutions will lead to better health and health care delivery. We are living through what is, arguably, the most challenging time for the health care industry. Globally, health systems are characterized by rising costs, poor access and diminishing quality and safety of care and there appears to be no imminent solution on the horizon. In the wake of this crisis in health, the world is looking for new sources of efficiency and alternative business models. Now, more than ever, we need health sector academics and practitioners to embrace innovation and entrepreneurship.....not just to survive, but to redefine and reshape health and health care delivery.

     

    The IEH conference provides an open platform to bring together thought leaders, scholars and practitioners from across the globe to present research and to stimulate discussions on how innovation and entrepreneurship can help transform health.

     

    We will meet in Oklahoma City, rated by the Kauffman Foundation as one of the most entrepreneurial cities in America, and home to a major hospital and health research community. Delegates fly into Will Rogers World Airport.

     

    Keynote speakers include:

     

    Douglas L. Wood, M.D.
    Director
    Strategy and Policy Center for Innovation
    Mayo Clinic
    Rochester, MN

     

    Martin Harris, M.D., MBA
    Chief Information Officer and Chairman
    Information Technology Division
    Cleveland Clinic
    Cleveland, OH

     

    Arlen D. Meyers M.D., MBA
    President and CEO
    Society of Physician Entrepreneurs
    Denver, CO

    Thomas L. Smith
    Founder, Executive, and Chairman
    Open Market Partners
    Dallas, TX

     

    Michael Morris, Ph.D.
    Professor and N. Malone Mitchell, Jr Chair
    Director of the School of Entrepreneurship,

    Oklahoma State University

     

    Michael Culig, M.D.
    Medical Director
    The Western Pennsylvania Hospital
    Pittsburgh, PA

    William Paiva, Ph.D
    Manager
    Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds
    Tulsa, OK

    Dick Flanigan
    Senior Vice President
    Cerner Corporation
    Kansas City, MO

    For more information contact Dr. Rubin Pillay at rubin.pillay@okstate.edu<mailto:rubin.pillay@okstate.edu> or http://ieh.okstate.edu/ .

     

    Rubin Pillay  Ph.D., M.D.

    Daniel White Jordan Clinical Professor

    Director, Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Academy

    School of Entrepreneurship

    Oklahoma State University

    Stillwater, OK 74078

    Tel: 405 744 1818 Fax 405 744 7679

     

    Michael H. Morris, Ph.D.

    Professor and N. Malone Mitchell Chair

    Head, School of Entrepreneurship

    Oklahoma State University

    Stillwater, OK  74078

    Ph:  (405) 744-5357; Fax:  (405) 744-7679

    Website:  http://entrepreneurship.okstate.edu

     

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