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.

The 2009 event, Pumps and Pipes 3: Better Together, will be held December 7, 2009. Presentations will focus on the intersections between medicine and energy where  research and technology come together with common uses and purpose. Medical researchers may be able to adapt research techniques pioneers in the energy fields, 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.

Sponsoring members of Pumps and Pipes include:

• ExxonMobil, Bill E. Kline, Ph.D., program director 

• Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center , Alan B. Lumsden, M.D., program director

• University of Houston , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Ph.D., program director