Keynotes

Mr. Lonnie Smith
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Intuitive Surgical, inc.

Topic: Disruptive Technology and the Organizational Life Cycle
What are the differences between incremental and truly disruptive innovation? A short glimpse inside a successful medical start-up company, the challenges of introducing a disruptive medical product, and managing a very high-growth organization.

Bio: Mr. Smith joined Intuitive in June 1997 from Hillenbrand Industries, where he was Senior Executive Vice President. Mr. Smith joined Hillenbrand in 1978 and during his tenure he was also a member of the executive committee, the office of the president and the board of directors. Mr. Smith has also held positions with The Boston Consulting Group and IBM. Mr. Smith received his BSEE from Utah State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Mr. Ron Williams
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Aetna, inc.

Topic: The Realities of the Health Care System
As CEO of one of the nation's largest health insurers, Mr. Williams will address: the current health care environment, how health information technology can help to shape the future health care system, the uninsured in the U.S. and Aetna's view of health care.

Bio: Ronald A. Williams is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna Inc. Under his leadership, Aetna has sought to make a positive impact on health care in America by serving as a catalyst for change. Joining Aetna in 2001, Mr. Williams has focused on creating innovation in the industry, helping make possible new levels of transparency in the health care system. He was named CEO in February 2006 and Chairman of the Board in October 2006. Mr. Williams also serves as chairman of the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare and is a trustee of The Conference Board and the Connecticut Science Center Board.

Mr. Williams is a graduate of Roosevelt University and holds an M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Dr. Scott Gottlieb
Former Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Bio: Scott Gottlieb, MD is currently a practicing physician and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, economics and social welfare.

From 2005-2007, Dr. Gottlieb served as FDA Deputy Commissioner and before that, from 2003-2004, as a senior advisor to FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan and as the FDA’s Director of Medical Policy Development. He left FDA in the spring of 2004 to work on implementation of the new Medicare Drug Benefit as a Senior Adviser to the Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he supported the agency's policy work on quality improvement and coverage and payment decision-making, particularly related to new medical technologies.

Dr. Gottlieb is the author of more than 300 articles that have appeared in leading medical journals as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today and Forbes Magazine. Dr. Gottlieb has held editorial positions on the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association and appears regularly as a guest commentator on the cable financial news channel CNBC.

Dr. Gottlieb completed his residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital and is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and of Wesleyan University, in Connecticut. Dr. Gottlieb practices medicine as an attending physician at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut where he is an internist on the hospital's inpatient medical wards.