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• 8:00 AM | Registration/Administrative Continental Breakfast

 

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• 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM | Session 1:  Welcome and Opening Remarks:

 

Professor Simon Benninga, Ph.D., Max and Steffi Perlman Professor of Financial Economics, Visiting Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Former Dean, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

 

Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner, DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures, Board Member ILSI & IVA

 

Professor Stephen Sammut, Senior Fellow, Wharton Health Care Systems and Entrepreneurship and Venture Partner, Burrill & Company

 

Dr. Robert Goldberg, Co-Founder and Vice President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI)

 

Acknowledgement of Sponsors

 

Course Infrastructure:

 

Introduction to Program Structure

 

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• 9:00 AM to 10.00 AM | Session 2:  Opening Keynote Address

 

Introduction: Ruth Alon, Partner and Managing Director Healthcare, Pitango Venture Capital, Chairperson of ILSI: The Israel Life Science Industry

 

Keynote Theme: “Mergers and Acquisitions: Negotiations and Implementation”

 

Israel Makov,Chairman of  Given Imaging, Former President and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

 

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• 10:00 AM to 1 PM | Session 3:   Demonstrating Quality and Value to Consumers: The Key to Reimbursement Success in the 21st Century, Implications for Clinical Trials Planning

 

This session will be led by experts, including the former director of CMS and the leader of the largest patient advocacy organization in the United States, who are in the business of demonstrating quality and value to health care consumers.  They will explain why this is more important than demonstrating cost-effectiveness for the success of a product in the marketplace.  They will also describe ways start ups can inexpensively conduct research to show the value of to customers.  Finally, the faculty will provide participants will tools and methodologies they can use for conducting their own assessments

 

Moderator: Dr. Robert Goldberg, Co-Founder and Vice President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI)

 

Doug Badger, Partner, Nickles Group

 

Bill Molmen, Co-Founder,  Integrated Benefits Institute

 

Ralph Snyderman, MD, President , Proventys Inc. and Chancellor Emeritus Duke University Medical Center

 

Susan Horn, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research

 

Dr. Azin Parhizgar, former Vice President and  COO of Conor Medsystems, Inc.and now an executive in J&J

 

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• 1 PM to 1.45 PM | Networking Luncheon

 

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• 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM | Session 4: Clinical Effectiveness Case Studies

 

Prior to the program, participants will be asked to prepare, submit and present a real situation for group review; questions provided.

 

Faculty from previous sessions to serve as commentators.

 

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• 2:45 PM to 4.15 PM | Session 5: Life Science industry Ethics, Social Responsibility and Global Health Needs

 

This session will focus broadly on the initiatives addressing global health needs.

The session will include a presentation of an actual project: an initiative to address and

prevent asthma in India and the accompanying challenge: “What low cost diagnostics, devices etc can be developed so that families and non physicians can reduce emergence of certain parasites implicated in asthma.” He will be accompanied by a venture capitalist managing a global life science fund focusing on India and China.

In addition the session will address changing diabetes as a global initiative – mobilizing forces at the local, regional and global level.

 

Moderator: Professor Stephen M.Sammut, Senior Fellow, Wharton Health Care Systems and Entrepreneurship and Venture Partner, Burrill & Company

 

Kanwarjit “KJ” Singh, MD, MBA Senior Program Officer Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

Leonard Bielory, M.D., Head of Allergy and Immunology at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

 

Dr. Alan Moses, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Worldwide, NovoNordisk

 

Gad Berdugo, Former Director and Sector Leader for global healthcare equity investment research at Lazard in New York

 

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• 4:15 PM to 4.45 PM | Bio – Break

 

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• 4:45 PM to 6:30 PM | Session 6: Intellectual Property

 

The goal of the session is to provide information and insight into the specific issues confronting investigators, entrepreneurs, investors and their patent attorneys. The session will address the

Current hot issues in biotech and devices, recent developments in US/PCT/TRIPS policies as related to biotech and devices, claims development strategy, managing the freedom to operate process, jurisdiction strategy and partnering implications

 

Moderator: Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner, DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures, Board Member ILSI & IVA

 

Ivor Elrifi, Ph.D., LL.B. is Co-chair of the Intellectual Property Section and Member, Policy Committee Mintz Levin

 

Brent Ahrens, General Partner, Canaan Partners (TBC)

 

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• 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Session 7: IP Case Studies

 

Case analysis on issues provided by participants, Faculty to serve as commentators.

 

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• 7:45 PM | Opening Dinner for Faculty and Participants

 

At the Green Vila, Tel Aviv University

Keynote lectures: Prof’ Manuel Trajtenberg, Head of the National Economic Council

Ralph Snyderman, MD, President , Proventys Inc. and Chancellor Emeritus Duke University Medical Center

 

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