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​Agenda

​1:00: Doors open, networking

​1:30: Welcome Cooley & MEDA Ventures

​1:40: Cooley: Landscape of healthcare market & investing.

​Matthew Schwee, Partner, Venture Capital Financings, M&A, Cooley LLP

​2:10: MEDA Ventures: Novel De-risked Approach to Clinical Trial.

Tomas J. Philipson, PhD, Managing Partner, MEDA Ventures
Former Acting Chair, White House Council of Economic Advisers; Exited Entrepreneur; Former Chief Economist FDA & CMS; Prof Emeritus of Economics, U of Chicago

​2:35: Fireside Chat with MEDA Ventures Partners: What makes a technology adoptable in the eyes of physicians and health systems?

MODERATOR:
Craig Cheifetz, MD, VP, Corporate Health and Premium Services, INOVA Concierge Medicine

MEDA PARTNER PANELISTS:
Min Lang, MD, Radiologist, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Eric Sun, MD, PhD, Anesthesiologist, Stanford Medical
Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine/Health Policy, Mass General Hospital
Vrushab Gowda, MD, JD, Radiologist, Mass General Hospital

​3:00: Panel: What makes a startup fundable at different investment stages?

MODERATOR:
Jeff Hausfeld, MD, MBA
Chairman of the Board & Chief Medical Officer, Biofactura
Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder, The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs
President, Memory Care Communities LLC
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, George Washington University

​PANELISTS:
Eddie Cherok, Chief Business Officer, Blackbird Labs
Alex Euler, Senior Investment Director, Virginia Venture Partners
Christy Steele, Principal, Sands Capital
Yuriy Onyskiv, Principal, Orlando Health Ventures

​3:45: Break

​4:00: Emerging company pitches (5-6:  5 min pitch/5 min Q/A).

​MODERATOR:
Elizabeth Cho-Fertikh, PhD, Managing Partner, MEDA Ventures

COMPANIES:
Agil
Circle
Kinnos
Playbl
RheoTek
Adovate

​5:15: Reception 

​6:00: End