Every year, you can count on hearing from the foremost experts in various aspects of the medical field at the Imagine Solutions Conference. They are visionaries and experts from our country’s leading hospitals, medical schools, academic centers, non-profit organizations and healthcare organizations. The goal of Imagine Solutions is to keep our attendees informed about cutting edge research, new ..

Many of the biggest ideas, top experts and most critical issues of our time are in the realm of “Science and Technology.” What will science teach us, what will technology look like in the coming decades and how will it affect the way we live? Will the future bring a world of more productivity, more energy, and more equality—or the profound threat of nonexistent privacy, ecological collapse, ..

When you come to the Imagine Solutions website, you see two distinct categories of events listed: our annual one-day Conference, and our individual topic Seminars. Even if you’ve been to the Conference sometime during our 10-year history, you may not recognize the Seminars. There’s a good reason for that: they’re new! We hosted our inaugural Imagine Solutions Seminar in April 2019, welcoming..

Breakthrough is one of those words in the English language that manages to essentially say what it means, implying the breaking through of some obstacle or barrier. Less simple is to achieve meaningful breakthrough when it comes to the world’s most pressing questions. At the Imagine Solutions Conference, a celebration of big ideas and the thought leaders who turn them into action, breakthrough i..

Aside from the inspiration and intellectual expansion, what are the reasons to attend a thought leader conference like Imagine Solutions? We can make all the arguments in the world for why we think it’s a good and worthy expenditure of your time. But what are the key takeaways for you as a business, nonprofit, or community leader? Something we regularly promote as a benefit is the networking..

N. Scott Adzick, MD, MMM, FACS, FAAP, is Surgeon-in-Chief of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the founder and director of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. Dr. Adzick is the C. Everett Koop Professor of Pediatric Surgery and also serves as CHOP's Director of the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery, as well as Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics a..

Chief Executive Officer since October 2013, Sandra L. Fenwick joined Boston Children's Hospital, the top pediatric hospital in the nation, in June of 1999 as Senior Vice President for Business Development, Strategy and Ambulatory Care Operations. She was appointed COO in 1999 and President in 2008. As CEO of the nation's preeminent pediatric hospital and research center, Fenwick has continued to b..

Steve Clemons serves as editor-at-large for The Hill, a role he previously held at The Atlantic. Clemons is also founder and senior fellow of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a centrist think tank in Washington, D.C., where he previously served as executive vice president. Clemons characterizes himself as a progressiverealist. Clemons is the former executive vice pr..

Elise Jordan is a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a contributor to TIME. Elise is an advisor to the Ashcroft in America research project studying voter attitudes during the midterm elections. She was a policy advisor to Senator Rand Paul’s 2016 presidential campaign. During the Bush administration, Elise worked in the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting and at the State..

Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair for Communication Research at University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Her research and teaching focuses on the political economy of media, especially the political economy of film, as well as issues relating to democracy and media. She currently serves as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Wasko is the author, co-au..

Dr. Laura L. Carstensen is Professor of Psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University where she serves as founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity (2007) and the principal investigator for the Stanford Life-span Development Laboratory. In addition to her role as professor of psychology, she served as the Barbara D. Finberg director of ..

The Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute is the brainchild of Dr. Philip Pizzo, former dean of the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Pizzo has devoted much of his distinguished medical career to the diagnosis, management, prevention and treatment of childhood cancers and the infectious complications that occur in children whose immune systems are compromised by cancer and AIDS. He has also been..

Dr. Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics at London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He has previously held positions at Harvard University, London School of Economics and Oxford University. His research and advisory work focuses on the short- and long-term forces that affect governments and business, and he has served as ad..

A global leader in cancer research and health disparities, Otis Brawley is a leading voice in the thoughtful development of cancer screening strategies and ensuring their effectiveness. As a dedicated teacher, he will train the next generation of physicians and researchers to reduce the threat of cancer. With the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship at Johns Hopkins University, he continues his w..

Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade is a hematology oncologist, associate dean for Global Health and Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. She also serves as director of the University of Chicago Hospital's Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics. An expert in cancer risk assessment and individualized treatment for the most aggressive for..

Dr. Olivera Finn is University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor of Immunology and Surgery and Founding Chair of the Department of Immunology, the position she held from 2001 to 2013. She has been a Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute since 1991. After receiving her PhD in Immunology at Stanford University in 1980 and completing her postdoct..

Dr. Ken Anderson graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School, trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and completed hematology, medical oncology, and tumor immunology training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He serves as chief of the Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and vice chair of the Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine..

Dr. George Prendergast was appointed President and CEO of the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR) in 2004. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received his BA magna cum laude with Distinction in Biochemistry in 1983. He obtained his MS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1984 and his PhD in Molecular Biology from Princeton University ..

Dr. David Skorton led as the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian. Dr. Skorton oversaw 19 museums and galleries, 20 libraries, the National Zoo and numerous education and research centers, including the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and the Smithsonian Science Education Center. He was responsible for a..

Lee Rainie is the Director of Internet and Technology Research at Pew Research Center. Under his leadership, the Center has issued more than 650 reports based on its surveys that examine people's online activities and the Internet's role in their lives. The American Sociological Association gave Rainie its award for excellence in the reporting on social issues, in 2014 and described his work as..