Event

TEDMED Live 2014

Session: Don't You Dare Talk About This
9:45 - 11:15 AM PT
This session will raise controversial issues in health and medicine that many people are reluctant to discuss publicly.

Speakers:
Sigrid Fry-Revere - Organ Donation Ethicist
Patricia Horoho - Army Surgeon General
Elizabeth Kenny - Patient Performer
Carl Hart - Drug Data Dealer
Amy Baxter - Pain Deflector
Leana Wen - Transparent Physician
Heather Raffo - Global Witness / Artistic Healer
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Session: Play Is Not a Waste of Time
1:30 - 3:05 PM PT
This session reveals the many ways that imagination rewards us, specifically how health and medicine are enhanced through the extraordinary power of play.

Speakers:
Gerardo Contino - Cuban Musician
Kayt Sukel - Edgy Science Writer
Rupa & The April Fishes - Rock Star Hospitalist / Rebel Musician
Carla Pugh - Haptic Educator
Jill Vialet - Recess Champion
Cole Galloway - Pediatric Motor Learning Scientist & Designer
Howard Rose - Health Games Designer
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Session: Stealing Smart
4:45 - 6:25 PM PT
The session demonstrates how some of the best solutions to problems in health and medicine come from other worlds than the domain where the problem originated or is usually addressed.

Speakers:
Nina Tandon - Tissue Engineer
Nora Volkow - Explorer of the Human Brain
Zachary Copfer - Bio-Artist
Brian Primack - Media and Medicine Researcher
Ramanan Laxminarayan - Drug Resistance Economist
Dominick Farinacci - Worldly Trumpeter
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz - Zoobiquitous Physician
Abraham Verghese - Attentive Physician / Passionate Storyteller
Drew Lakatos - Trauma Prevention Technologist
Leslie Morgan Steiner - Motherhood Investigator
Stephen Goldner - Clinical Trials Matchmaker