Overview:
Join this lively panel discussion and participate in an audience brainstorming activity to help solve the problem of pediatric obesity. A panel of experts will give the audience the top five issues in this area, which has traditionally lacked in innovative solutions. Following a warm-up by the Biodesign Innovation Fellows, the audience will participate in a brainstorming session and kick off a three-day competition, the Innovating for Health Challenge. The winner will be announced at the Entrepreneurship Week Closing ceremony.

Moderator
Thomas Krummel, MD
Emile Holman Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
Susan B. Ford Surgeon-in-Chief
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Co-Director, Stanford Biodesign Program

Panelists
Craig Albanese, MD
Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Department of Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Director of Surgical Services

Pat Christen
President and CEO
HopeLab

Thomas Fogarty, MD
Medical device innovator, Surgeon & Co-Founder
Satiety Inc

Dana Mead
Venture Capitalist
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers

Kristin Gross Richmond
Founder and CEO
Revolution Foods

Thomas Robinson, MD, MPH
Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor in Child Health
Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Division of General Pediatrics & Stanford Prevention Research Center
Director, Center for Healthy Weight
Stanford University School of Medicine
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital