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MassTLC Executive Summit: Improving the Quality of HealthCare with Robotics
Wednesday, October, 20, 2010 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel

MassTLC is working with Partners HealthCare’s Connected Health Symposium to look at how Robotics is impacting healthcare and improving the lives of patients. This pre-symposium executive workshop will explore a full range of robotics applications in healthcare from robotics in surgery to robotics solutions for assisting the elderly. Each session will examine the latest products as well as future research, with a focus on how these innovative tools are impacting the quality of care in our lives today and in years to come.

Confirmed Speakers (to date)

• Colin Angle, CEO, iRobot 
• Stefan Bircher, Executive Vice President, Hocoma
• Howard Choset, CTO, Cardiorobotics 
• Nobuhiko Hata, Director, Surgical Navigation and Robotics Lab, Brigham & Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
• David Handler, President & CEO, Corindus Vascular Robotics
• Dr. Hugh Herr, Founder and CSO, iWalk Inc.
• Thomas Hopcroft, CEO, Mass Technology Leadership Council 
• Brad Kayton, CEO, vGo Communications 
• Steve Kelly, CEO, Myomo Inc.
• Cory Kidd, CEO and Founder, Intuitive Automata  
• Tod Loofbourrow, President, HealthCare Division, iRobot 
• Catherine Mohr, MD MSME, Director, Medical Research, Intuitive Medical
• Charles Remsburg, CEO, Tibion  
• Tom Ryden, Co-Founder & COO, vGo Communications, Moderator
• Joe Ternullo, Assoc. Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare
• Deborah Theobald, President and CEO, Vecna
• William Townsend, President and CEO, Barrett Technology

Agenda (times are approximate and subject to change)

12:30 pm - Registration & Networking

1:00 pm - Welcome & Opening Remarks

1:10 pm - Keynote: Future of Robotics in Improving Quality of Life
Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, will deliver a keynote on the future of robotics in improving quality of life. He will provide broad thinking on the role of robotics in healthcare, setting the stage for sessions on robotics surgery, lab systems and other hospital uses, rehabilitation and assistive robotics, and home health robotics, including telepresence robotics.

1:30 pm - Robotic Surgery, Lab Systems, and Other Hospital Uses
Advances in surgical robots give physicians greater accuracy and control while reducing the invasiveness, risk of complication and corresponding recovery time for patients. Surgical robots further enable specialists to treat more patients both on site and in remote connected health applications. Further advantages to robotics surgery include better articulation and imaging resulting in improved ergonomics for doctors.

• Howard Choset, CTO, Cardiorobotics 
• David Handler, President & CEO, Corindus Vascular Robbotics
• Nobuhiko Hata, Director, Surgical Navigation and Robotics Lab, Brigham & Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
• Catherine Mohr, MD MSME, Director, Medical Research, Intuitive Medical
• Tom Ryden, Co-Founder & COO, vGo Communications
• Deborah Theobald, President and CEO, Vecna

2:45 pm - Networking Break

3:15 pm - Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics
Robotic technology is increasingly being used to perform repetitive rehabilitative tasks, allowing care givers to see more patients while providing greater access to a more consistent training regimen for patients and benchmarking a patient's progress with great precision. The result is more patients treated, more care provided to each patient, and reduced cost for the provider.

• Stefan Bircher, Executive Vice President, Hocoma
• Steve Kelly, CEO, Myomo Inc.
• Dr. Hugh Herr, Founder and CSO, iWalk Inc.
• Charles Remsburg, CEO, Tibion
• Tom Ryden, Co-Founder & COO, vGo Communications  

4:30 pm - Home Health Robotics
We have seen robots that clean floors but what about robots that help improve our health in the home. Robots that can help you monitor your eating habits, talk to caregivers remotely and assist with household chores like dishes are not that far away. Given the increasing demands on healthcare providers and demographic trends of the next couple decades, robotics in the home is poised to become an increasingly familiar tool in the caregiver’s arsenal. 

• Brad Kayton, CEO, vGo Communications 
• Cory Kidd, CEO and Founder, Intuitive Automata  
• Tod Loofbourrow, President, HealthCare Division, iRobot
• Tom Ryden, Co-Founder & COO, vGo Communications
• William Townsend, President and CEO, Barrett Technology  

5:45 pm - Closing Remarks

6:00 pm - Networking Reception - with exhibitors from Partners Connected Health Symposium 

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