Monday, December 7, 2009

Pumps and Pipes Program Agenda

7:30 – 8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:10 AM Welcome & Conference Inspiration
Alan B. Lumsden, MD, Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
William E. Kline, PhD, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Center

8:10 – 9:40 AM Session I: Pumps & Circuits – Tales from the Toolbox

Indestructible Pumps – Here’s the Idea…
Ideas Everywhere - My P&P; Clippings File: Thomas Lindsey, ExxonMobil
A New Idea for Supporting the Heart: Basel Ramlawi, M.D., Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center

Nanotechnology & Robotics – Fantastic Voyage
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Smaller
I, Robot – Going New Places, Doing New Things: Jean Bismuth, M.D., Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center

Distant Monitoring & Surveillance – Reach Out and Touch Someone
You Think Your Long Distance Bill is High? William Standifird, Halliburton
Sensors – Please Call Home! Rebecca Seidel and Steve Glinski, Medtronic

9:40 – 10:00 AM Break

10:00 – 10:30 AM Panel Roundtable Session I: Pumps & Circuits
10:30 – 11:25 AM Interactive Breakout Workshops Session I
11:25 – 11:40 AM Moderators Summary Session I

11:40 AM – 12:00 PM Break – Pick up Lunch Boxes

12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch: Guest Speaker – Joe Cunningham, MD, Santé Ventures

1:00 – 2:30 PM Session II: Pipes & Fluids

Managing Imperfect Conduits – 40 Miles of Bad Roads
Stent Technology - Keeping the Road Open: Michael Nilson, Gore Medical Products
Porous Medical Flow - When Google Map is Not Enough: Karsten Thompson, Ph.D., Louisiana State University

Intelligent Conduits – Where All Conduits are Above Average
Field of the Future: Bill Blosser, British Petroleum
From Blood Vessels to Pipelines: Peter Stonebridge, M.D., Tayside Medical Ltd. and Dundee University

Advanced Materials – The Devil Wears Prada
Designer Materials I - Rustom Mody, Ph.D., Baker Hughes
Designer Materials II

2:30 – 2:50 PM Break

2:50 – 3:20 PM Panel Roundtable Session II: Pipes & Fluids
3:20 – 4:15 PM Interactive Workshops Session II
4:15 – 4:30 PM Moderators Summary Session II

4:30 – 4:50 PM Break

4:50 – 5:10 PM Bringing People and Ideas Together:NSF Industry and University Cooperative Research Program on Pumps and Pipes
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, PhD, University of Houston

5:10 – 5:30 PM Closing Remarks: Dr. Renu Khator, University of Houston Chancellor and President

5:30 – 6:30 PM Social Hour & Reception