Energy
and medicine are two of Houston’s primary industries, and thanks to its
concentration of universities, the city is also home to world-class research. The
Pumps and Pipes collaboration brings together energy, medicine, and higher
education in a unique shared effort, exploring ideas and research common to
these important fields and stimulating discussion and sharing technologies that
can further the reach and goals of each individual area.
Following
the success of the inaugural Pumps and Pipes conference in 2007, the 2008 event
presents “The Other Guy’s Toolkit.” Medicine may be able to adapt research
being done for energy, for instance, or a technology that has helped doctors
may prove useful for petroleum engineers.
The
invited audience consists of research and development staff from major medical
device manufacturers; vascular biologists, researchers, and clinicians
interested in cardiovascular disease; computer scientists, physicists, and
engineers from academia; and geologists, physicists, and researchers from the
oil and gas industry.
