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Speakers and select presentations
Monday, October 31
Tony Dennis, PhD, President & CEO, Omeris
John F. Lewis, Jr., Vice President, Omeris
- View Opening "Bio in Ohio" Presentation (pdf) -
From Idea to Bioscience Business
Do You Really Want to Start a Company Panel: (moderator) Tracy Kitts, VP & COO, National Business Incubation Assoc.; Donna Richardson, President & CEO, Cleveland NanoCrystals; Anne H. Chasser, Associate VP for Technology Transfer and Commercialization, UC; Jeffrey P. Jones, Of Counsel, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP; Michael D. Hooven, Chief Technology Officer, AtriCure
Building the Right Team Panel: (moderator) Michael Camp, Academic Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Schwen, PhD, Senior Consultant, PAREXEL; Stephen Albainy-Jenei, Member, Frost Brown Todd LLC; Robert Schmidt, President & CEO, Cleveland Medical Devices; Sandra W. Harbrecht, President, Paul Werth Associates; Robert E. Anthony, President, REA Incorporated & Medical Milestones
Financing Your Bioscience Baby: (moderator) Keith M. Kerman, MD, Managing Director, Primus Venture Partners; William D. Timmons, President & CTO, EnteraTech; John O. Huston, President, USPrivatecompanies LLC; Ernie C. Knight, Director, Nationwide Mutual Capital; Karen Morgan, Director, Charter Life Sciences
Third Frontier Project Bioscience Summit
Frank Samuel, Science and Technology Advisor to Ohio Governor Bob Taft
- View Frank Samuel's Presentation (pdf) -
Michael Knopp, MD, PhD, Novartis Chair of Imaging Research, The Ohio State University
Bruce Aronow, PhD, Associate Director, Computational Medicine Center
Paul Correa, PhD, Research Fellow, Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals
- View Paul Correa's Presentation (pdf) -
John Patrick, PhD, Director, MRI Product Planning, Philips Medical Systems
- View John Patrick's Presentation (pdf) -
Gil Van Bokkelen, PhD, Chairman & CEO, Athersys
- View Gil Van Bokkelen's Presentation (pdf) -
Dan Berglund, President & CEO, SSTI
- View Dan Berglund's Presentation (pdf) -
Tuesday, November 1
Keynote Speaker:
Caroline Kovac, PhD, General Manager, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences
- View Dr. Kovac's Presentation (pdf) -
Corporate Leaders Panel:
Mark Collar, President, Global Pharmaceuticals and Personal Health, Procter & Gamble; Candace Kendle, PharmD, Chairman & CEO, Kendle International; David Scholl, PhD, President/CEO, Diagnostic Hybrids; John (Jack) Kraeutler, President & COO, Meridian Bioscience; Thomas Bradshaw, President & CEO, Ricerca Biosciences; (moderator) Ed Burghard, Executive Director, Ohio Business Development Coalition
Ohio Bioinformatics Panel:
Jesse Jones, President & CEO, Ohio's IT Alliance; Eric Stahlberg, PhD, Senior Systems Manager, Ohio Supercomputer Center; Roger Schenck, Business Development Manager, CAS; Adel Mikhail, PhD, CEO, Rescentris
Luncheon Speaker:
Lt. Governor Bruce Johnson, State of Ohio
University Leaders Panel:
Karen Holbrook, PhD, President, The Ohio State University; Roderick McDavis, PhD, President, Ohio University; Robert Fyffe, PhD, Associate Dean, Wright State University;
Jane Henney, MD, Senior VP, University of Cincinnati;
(moderator) Richard Rosen, Vice President, External Business Relations, Battelle
Growing Ohio's Pharma Industry Panel:
Steve Twait, Eli Lilly & Co.
- View Steve Twait's Presentation (pdf) -
J. Wood Hydrick, Cushman & Wakefield
Tony Dennis, PhD, President & CEO, Omeris
To see speaker bios, click here for a PDF version of the conference booklet.

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