Richard Brewer, Managing Partner, Crest Asset Management; FasterCures Board Member

Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Goldin, Senior Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute; former Administrator, NASA

Lee Hartwell, Nobel Laureate, Medicine, 2001; President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

Carol Kovac, General Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM

Rick Lytel, Vice President, Chief Technologist, Physical and Life Sciences; Director, Advanced System Development Center, Sun Microsystems

Shmuel Meitar, Director, Aurec Group; FasterCures Board Member

Richard Merkin, CEO, Heritage Provider Network; FasterCures Board Member

Greg Simon, President, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions

Andrew von Eschenbach, Director, National Cancer Institute

Moderator:

Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute; Chairman, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions; co-Founder, Milken Family Foundation

Summary:

In a preview to the Global Conference, a number of panelists on the event′s health-care sessions — including Nobel Prize winners in medicine and economics, the director of the National Cancer Institute, and others — participated in a private interactive roundtable with invited guests at the Getty Center. They addressed such questions as why, 33 years after our nation declared war on cancer, more than half a million Americans still lose their lives to it every year; how we can deal with the epidemic of obesity and the resulting rise in diabetes and heart disease; what strategies the National Cancer Institute has put in place to achieve its goal of eliminating the burden of cancer by 2015; how informatics, genomics and proteomics can make predictive medicine a reality; how to find more risk capital for drug development; and how we can improve the efficiency of medical research.

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