Scientific Conference - Agenda

Digital Health in ​
Cardiovascular Innovations

The Rambam–Haifa
Health of Tomorrow
Conference


Spencer Auditorium, Rambam HCC​

 

8:00 AM - Pick-up from Your hotel

8:30 AM - Welcome Reception


9:15 AM - Greetings and opening comments
Professor Rafi Beyar, Director, RHCC
MK. Rabbi Yakov Litzman, Minister of Health
Professor Michael Glikson, President, Israel Heart Society
Mr. Yona Yahav, Mayor of Haifa

Conference Moderator:
Professor Lior Gepstein, Director, Cardiology, RHCC


9:30 AM - Stem Cell and Gene Therapies: Can We Mend a Broken Heart?
Professor Lior Gepstein, Director, Cardiology, Rambam HCC, Haifa, Israel


10:15 AM - Digitizing and Democratizing Medicine
Professor Eric J. Topol, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute,
La Jolla, California, USA


11:00 AM - Coffee Break


11:15 AM - Great Ideas that Would Never Work: Saving Lives from Cardiovascular Disease
Professor Emeritus William R. Brody, Irwin M. Jacobs Presidential Chair, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA​


12:00 PM - Medicine in the 21st Century:
From Healing the Sick to Upgrading the Healthy

Professor Yuval Noah Harari, ​best-selling author of: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (The History of Tomorrow in Hebrew)​


12:45 PM - Panel Discussion: The Future of Cardiology
Panel ​Moderator: Professor Rafi Beyar
Panel ​Participants:​
Professor William R. Brody
Professor Eric J. Topol
Dr. Elkhanan Bruckheimer
Professor ​Michael Glikson
Professor Yuval Noah Harari​
Associate Professor Amir Landesberg


1:30 PM - Buffet Lunch​ at the Historic Stone Building


2:30 PM - Friends of Rambam Meeting


3:30 PM - Return to Hotel for Rest and Personal Tim​e