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The Texas Medical Association is hosting a half-day live simulcast of TEDMED lectures. TEDMED is an annual meeting of the minds where multidisciplinary innovators discuss hot topics and new developments in health and medicine. Past TEDMED speakers include Temple Grandin, President Bill Clinton, and TMA’s 2013 General Session speaker, Abraham Verghese, MD. This year’s spectactular speaker line-up includes 50+ global leaders. Come prepared to think; come prepared to interact — but most of all, come prepared to have fun! You’re sure to find TEDMED an unforgettable experience. Join us live April 17, 1-7:30 pm ATTENDANCE IS FREE! Double Tree Suites Hotel, Bluebonnet Room 303 W. 15th St. • Austin, TX 78701 Free parking available at the TMA Building TED MED is coming April 17 #TEDMEDtma Texas Medical Association A ustin

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The Texas Medical Association is proud to host a live simulcast, April 17, of the TEDMED lectures direct from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. http://bloggedarteries.texmed.org/2013/04/experience-tedmed-2013-free-courtesy-of.html

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Page 1: TEDMED Live - Simulcast in Austin by Texas Medical Association

The Texas Medical Association is hosting a half-day live simulcast of TEDMED lectures.

TEDMED is an annual meeting of the minds where multidisciplinary innovators discuss hot topics and new developments in health and medicine. Past TEDMED speakers include Temple Grandin, President Bill Clinton, and TMA’s 2013 General Session speaker, Abraham Verghese, MD. This year’s spectactular speaker line-up includes 50+ global leaders.

Come prepared to think; come prepared tointeract — but most of all, come prepared to have fun! You’re sure to find TEDMED an unforgettable experience.

Join us live April 17, 1-7:30 pm ATTENDANCE IS FREE!Double Tree Suites Hotel,Bluebonnet Room303 W. 15th St. • Austin, TX 78701Free parking available at the TMA Building

TEDMEDis coming April 17

#TEDMEDtma

Texas Medical Association Austin

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Register for the Live Event

Join the livestream online anytime, anywhere, with anyone!

1:30-3:15 pm Shifting the Patterns of Powermoderators:Tracey Haas, DO, and Tim Gueramy, MD, DocbookMD

H. Shaw Warren, MD, a physician and researcher, talks of the pluses and minuses of the mouse monarchy in medical research.

Max Little, a mathematician and Parkinson’s Voice Initiative founder, will share his perspective on how big data could change medicine.

Ashley Atkinson will show us why urban gardens are about much more than just plants from her perspective as the co-director of Keep Growing detroit.

Pritpal S. Tamber, MD, a physician, tedmed clinical editor, and founder of optimising Clinical Knowledge, explores a missing ingredient.

Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, reveals how he thinks about the difficulties of aligning payer and profit in U.s. health care.

Peter Attia, MD, a surgeon, former mcKinsey consultant, and relentless self-experimenter, says prevailing solutions to our obesity epidemic are starved of evidence-based science.

3:15-4:30 pm Break and Discussion

Connect to TEDMED Via Mobile Applicationdownload the tedmedConnect mobile in your app store. When prompted by the app, input the texas medical association location Id: L82830, and your personal email address.

the app will:• allow tedmedLive participants to connect “live” to the

speakers on the tedmed stage and ask them questions or transmit comments.

• Contain the up-to-the-minute tedmed schedule.• Let users view and upload photos from tedmedLive viewing

locations.• Let users participate in live polls and games.• Give users the opportunity to request a follow-up “science-Kit.”• allow users to download the conference program.• Connect users to Facebook and twitter.

3 Easy Ways to Register:• Go online to www.texmed.org/

tedmed, or• Contact tma’s Knowledge Center at

(800) 880-7955, or• email [email protected].

Event is limited to 100 guests.

Free parking available at the tma Building.

Beverages and light refreshments will be available courtesy of the texas medical association.

Speaker Schedule LivESTREAM BEGinS 1:30 PM

Not Coming to the Live Event? If you can’t attend the live event, you can participate from anywhere using your mobile device. to give you maximum scheduling flexibility, choose the format that’s best for you. all four days of speakers will be available in two formats:

REAL-TiME: View tedmed with the live audience in Washington, d.C., during the days of the event (april 16-19).

On-DEMAnD: experience tedmed according to your schedule, during the event and thereafter, through sunday, april 21 (midnight your time zone).

4:30-6:30 pm What Happens When We Mix Up the Models?moderator:Stephen Pont, MD, MPHDell Children’s Medical Center, The Texas Center for the Prevention and the Treatment of Childhood Obesity

Francis Collins, NIH director, returns to the tedmed stage to talk about the next big leaps in biomedicine.Mike Pazin, an eNCode program officer, will shed light on how collaboration can help unlock more dNa secrets.The Manzari Brothers of So You Think You Can Dance bring their blazing talent to the tedmed stage.Gary Slutkin, MD, an epidemiologist at Cure Violence, says the issue has been misdiagnosed, and instead created science-based strategies that aim to stop violence before it erupts.David Odde, a biomedical engineer, and Black Label Movement, a collective of dance artists, team up to combine dance and science, shining new light on both.Zubin Damania, MD, an internist and rapper “Zdoggmd,” wants to shake up health care with ideas as bold and personable as his satirical videos.

6:30-7:30 pm Reception and Discussion