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The Event

Online Symposium with 4 webinar sessions about relevant biomedical engineering themes:
Molecular & Cellular Engineering; Tissue engineering; AI & Analytics; and Biomechatronic & Man-Machine interaction.

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Program

Medical Challenges and (Bio)Material Solutions in Health and Disease

Sachedule
Activity
Speaker

18:30 BRT

Welcome words

Dr. Sidney Klajner

18:40 BRT

Lecture#1: Advanced Materials for Key Biomedical Solutions

Dr. Fernando S. Ortega

19:00 BRT

Lecture#2: Molecular Engineering of New Biomaterials

Prof. Dr. Bradley Olsen

19:40 BRT

Debate and questions from the audience

Chair: Dr. Welbert O. Pereira

20:00 BRT

Closing words and call for next week

Biomechatronics and Man-Machine Interaction

Sachedule
Activity
Speaker

18:30 BRT

Welcome words

Dr. Sergio Podgaec

18:35 BRT

Lecture#1: Robotics Towards Patient Recovery

Dr. Juan Carlos Ibarra

18:55 BRT

Lecture#2: Next Generation of Medical Electronic Devices

Prof. Dr. Brian Anthony

19:25 BRT

Debate and questions from the audience

Chair: Dra. Roseli Lopes
Special Guest Debater: Dr. Rodrigo Bornhausen Demarch

20:00 BRT

Closing words and call for next week

Translational Cellular Engineering

Sachedule
Activity
Speaker

18:30 BRT

Welcome words

Rosabelli Coelho Keyssar

18:40 BRT

Lecture#1: From Skin to Neurons: Reprogramming Your Own Cells to Create Tissues

Dra. Karina Griesi

19:00 BRT

Lecture#2: Molecular Engineering for Next Generation Gene Therapy

Dr. Ricardo Weinlich

19:20 BRT

Debate and questions from the audience

Chair: Dr. José Mauro Kutner
Special Guest Debater: Dr. Marco Antônio Loschiavo Barros

20:00 BRT

Closing words and call for next week

Artificial Intelligence & Tissue Engineering

Sachedule
Activity
Speaker

18:30 BRT

Welcome words

18:35 BRT

Lecture#1: AI for Precise and Equitable Cancer Care

Prof. Dr. Regina Barzilay

19:05 BRT

Debate

Chair: Prof. Dr. Edson Amaro Jr.

19:20 BRT

Lecture#2: Organs from a Chip to the Body: Building the “Human Physiome”

Prof. Dra. Linda Griffith

19:40 BRT

Debate

Chair: Dra. Erika Bevilaqua Rangel

20:05 BRT

Closing Remarks from the Organizers

Medical Challenges and (Bio)Material Solutions in Health and Disease

Schedule
Activity and Speaker

6:30 p.m. BRT

Welcome words

Dr. Sidney Klajner

06:40 p.m. BRT

Lecture#1: Advanced Materials for Key Biomedical Solutions

Dr. Fernando S. Ortega

7:00 p.m. BRT

Lecture#2: Molecular Engineering of New Biomaterials

Prof. Dr. Bradley Olsen

7:40 p.m. BRT

Debate and questions from the audience

Chair: Dr. Welbert O. Pereira

8:00 p.m. BRT

Closing words and call for next week

Biomechatronics and Man-Machine Interaction

Schedule
Activity and Speaker

6:30 p.m. BRT

Welcome words

Dr. Sergio Podgaec

06:35 p.m. BRT

Lecture#1: Robotics Towards Patient Recovery

Dr. Juan Carlos Ibarra

6:55 p.m. BRT

Lecture#2: Next Generation of Medical Electronic Devices

Prof. Dr. Brian Anthony

7:25 p.m. BRT

Debate and questions from the audience

Chair: Dra. Roseli Lopes
Special Guest Debater: Dr. Rodrigo Bornhausen Demarch

8:00 p.m. BRT

Closing words and call for next week

Translational Cellular Engineering

Schedule
Activity and Speaker

6:30 p.m. BRT

Welcome words

Dra. Rosabelli Coelho Keyssar

06:40 p.m. BRT

Lecture#1: From Skin to Neurons: Reprogramming Your Own Cells to Create Tissues

Dra. Karina Griesi

7:00 p.m. BRT

Lecture#2: Molecular Engineering for Next Generation Gene Therapy

Dr. Ricardo Weinlich

7:20 p.m. BRT

Debate and questions from the audience

Chair: Dr. José Mauro Kutner
Special Guest Debater: Dr. Marco Antônio Loschiavo Barros

8:00 p.m. BRT

Closing words and call for next week

Artificial Intelligence & Tissue Engineering

Schedule
Activity and Speaker

6:30 p.m. BRT

Welcome words

06:35 p.m. BRT

Lecture#1: AI for Precise and Equitable Cancer Care

Prof. Dr. Regina Barzilay

7:05 p.m. BRT

Debate

Chair: Prof. Dr. Edson Amaro Jr.

7:20 p.m. BRT

Lecture#2: Organs from a Chip to the Body: Building the “Human Physiome”

Prof. Dra. Linda Griffith

7:40 p.m. BRT

Debate

Chair: Dra. Erika Bevilaqua Rangel

8:05 p.m. BRT

Closing Remarks from the Organizers

Speakers

SPEAKERS

Prof. Dr. Bradley Olsen

Tenured Professor MIT / NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Brad Olsen is a tenured professor in the ChemE department at MIT. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at MIT (2003) and a doctorate at the University of California Berkeley in the same field (2007). He did postdoctoral studies at Caltech, and became a professor at MIT in late 2009. His research is directed towards the discovery of new biomaterials, the self-assembly of materials, and the physics of polymers. His group uses experimental and theoretical tools to do the studies, including recently the development of new computer tools in the field of polymers. He is the MISTI MIT-Brazil program Faculty Director and fluent in Portuguese. Brad serves on the chemistry panel of the Serrapilheira Institute, spent his sabbatical at UNICAMP in the years 2018-2019, and supports Flamengo and Santos.

Prof. Dr. Brian Anthony

Director of Medical Electronic Device Realization Center, MIT

PhD in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Anthony is Director of MIT’s Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Program, Co-Director of the Medical Electronic Device Realization Center, and Deputy Director for the MIT Skoltech Initiative. His work involves systems analysis and design and calling upon mechanical, electrical, and optical engineering, along with computer science and optimization, to create solutions.

Dr. Fernando S. Ortega

NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

PhD in materials science and engineering from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Dr. Fernando has experience in the area of materials engineering, with emphasis on processing of ceramic materials, acting mainly on the following themes: dispersion of powders in liquids, suspension rheology, manufacturing processes, porous ceramics and application of ceramic manufacturing processes to powder metallurgy.

Dr. Juan Carlos Ibarra

NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

PhD in mechanical engineering from Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Juan has experience in robotics, mechatronic and automation, acting on the following subjects: system control, robotic rehabilitation and impedance control.

Dr. Karina Griesi

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

PhD in genetics from the Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Karina has experience in human genetics, induced pluripotent stem cells, neuroscience, cellular and molecular biology, bioinformatics analysis of exome and transcriptome data and gene editing (CRISPR).

Prof. Dr. Linda Griffith

Center for Emergent Behaviors of Integrate Cellular Systems, MIT

PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, Director of Center for Gynepathology Research, Member of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences, the Center for Emergent Behaviors of Integrate Cellular Systems, the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the National Academy of Engineering. The Griffith group’s research encompasses molecular-to-systems level analysis, design and synthesis of biomaterials, scaffolds, devices and micro-organs for a range of applications in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and in vitro drug development.

Prof. Dr. Regina Barzilay

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

PhD in computer science from Columbia University. Dr. Regina is a Delta Electronics professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Her research interests are in natural language processing, applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology.

Dr. Ricardo Weinlich

NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

PhD in immunology from the Universidade de São Paulo and Post-Doc at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Dr. Ricardo works as a researcher at the Israelite Institute for Research and Education - Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, focusing on cellular immunology and cell death pathways.

CHAIRS

Prof. Dr. Edson Amaro Júnior

Head of Analytics in Hospital Israelita Albert / NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstei

Ph.D. at medicine from Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Edson has experience in diagnostic imaging, acting on the following subjects: functional MRI, MRI, image analysis, radiology, event-related fmri, parkinson, FMRI, functional neuroimage e working memory.

Dr. Erika Bevilaqua Rangel

Researcher, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Graduated in Medicine from the University of Brasília (1995), Master and Doctorate in Medicine (Nephrology) from the Federal University of São Paulo-Paulista School of Medicine (UNIFESP-EPM) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Postdoctoral (2009-2014) at the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at Univesity of Miami, FL, USA with Prof Dr Joshua M Hare. She is currently an Adjunct Professor in Nephrology at UNIFESP-EPM (2016-), a kidney and pancreas-kidney transplant doctor at Hospital do Rim, a doctor-researcher at the Israelite Institute of Teaching and Research Albert Einstein and a permanent professor at the Graduate Program Stricto Sensu in Health Sciences at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (HIAE; 2014-). Since March 2020, she coordinates the Einstein Intelligence Center (NIE). She is also coordinator of the Department of Pancreas Transplantation of the Brazilian Association of Organ Transplantation (ABTO; biennia 2020-21, 2018-19 and 2016-17), member of the Department of Kidney Diseases of the Brazilian Diabetes Society (2020-21). Founding member of the Women in Transplantation department of ABTO (2019). Member of the HIAE Graduate Commission (2016-19 and 2019-21 triennials). Areas of interest: kidney transplantation, pancreas transplantation, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, regenerative medicine, cell therapy, gene therapy, preclinical models of acute kidney injury and diabetic kidney disease.

Dr. José Mauro Kutner

Manager of the Department of Hemotherapy and Cell Therapy at Hospital Israelita Alber. PhD in Hematology by the Medical School Universidade de São Paulo. Former fellow of the New York Blood Center.

Dra. Roseli Lopes

USP/ NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

PhD in electrical engineering from Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Roseli is a associate professor of the department of electronic systems engineering at the polytechnic school of the Universidade de São Paulo. She coordinates research projects in the area of interactive electronic media, with an emphasis on applications aimed at education and health.

Dr. Welbert O. Pereira

NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

PhD in immunology and PostDoc in onco-hematology from the Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Welbert is professor and leader of the faculty development center at the Faculdade Israelita de Ciências da Saúde Albert Einstein, he is a consultant for educational innovations at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and he is a professor of the Executive MBA in health management and responsible for the subject "Advanced topics of teaching and learning" in the postgraduate program, where he is also an advisor. He has experience in general biology, focusing on general biology, acting on the following subjects: apoptose, paracoccidioides brasiliensis, necrose, bcr-abl and leucemia.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Dr. Sidney Klajner

President of Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein

Sidney Klajner is a Digestive Surgeon. He has a degree in Medicine and a Master's Degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, a medical residency from the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of USP, fellow of American College of Surgeons. President of Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Instituto Coalizão Saúde and of the Higher Council of Health Management - managed by the State Secretary of Health of São Paulo, as well as Professor of the Executive MBA in Health Management at Einstein, in the discipline “The Health Market in Brazil and in the World: Structure and strategies ”. He is co-author of the book “A Digital Revolution in Health” (Editora dos Editores, 2019), a work in which he investigates the impact of new technologies in medicine and in several aspects of health, such as assistance, management, quality and sustainability of the system.

Dr. Sergio Podgaec

Vice-President of Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein

Professor of the Discipline of Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and President of the National Endometriosis Commission of FEBRASGO. Coordinator of the Medical Residency Program in Gynecology and Obstetrics and Improvement in Gynecological Endoscopy.

Dr. Marco Antônio Loschiavo Barros

NDE-Biomedical Engineering School of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

PhD and PostDoc in law from the Universidade de São Paulo . Dr. Marco is currently professor at the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and conducts postdoctoral research in International Political Economy at the Universidade de São Paulo. His research focuses on the areas of Economic Law; Ethics and Philosophy of Law; and New Technologies

Dr. Rodrigo Bornhausen Demarch

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Graduated in Medicine by Fundação Universidade Regional de Blumenau. Dr. Rodrigo is currently medical technology manager of the Sociedade Israelita Brasileira Hospital Albert Einstein. He is interested in the following areas: population health management, digital health, health innovation, occupational medicine, corporate health management and preventive and lifestyle medicine, quality of life at work.

Rosabelli Coelho-Keyssar

Managing Director MIT-Brazil

Rosabelli Coelho-Keyssar is the MIT-Brazil Managing Director and responsible for developing projects in Brazil with MIT students, faculty, corporate partners, academic institutions, foundations and government organizations. Among other responsibilities, she manages the MIT-Brazil Seed Funds, which promote faculty collaborations with Brazil's top researchers, and she oversees the entire internship process of recruiting, placing and preparing MIT students for work at Brazilian institutions. Originally from Brazil (Petrolina-PE), Rosabelli arrived in Cambridge in 2007 to pursue a master’s degree as a Lemann Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. After graduation, she used her skills at a community-centered non-profit, before joining MIT to become one of their liaisons with Brazil. Before coming to the U.S., Rosa gained hands-on experience in Brazil in community planning and development, as both an architect and in educational administration roles. Her academic resume demonstrates a commitment to improved cities: She holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a master’s degree in Urbanism from PUC-Campinas, and a bachelor’s in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Pernambuco.

Organization
Organizing and Scientific Committee

Dr. Welbert O. Pereira – HIAE
Dr. Ricardo Weinlich – HIAE
Prof. Dr. Bradley Olsen – MIT-Brazil
Rosabelli Coelho-Keyssar – MIT-Brazil

Support

TVML Foundation sponsorship

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FRONTIERS OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

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