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Feb 8, 2012

Save the Date: 2012 SharpBrains Summit — Optimizing Health Through Neuroplasticity & Digital Innovation

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Please Save these Dates if you are inter­ested in explor­ing and dis­cussing the lat­est on Opti­miz­ing Health Through Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion; the theme for our third annual vir­tual Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (“vir­tual” means every­thing takes place online; no one has to travel):

  • Pre-Summit work­shops: May 31st-June 1st, 2012
  • Sum­mit: June 7-8th, 2012
  • Expo Week: June 12-14th, 2012

20 Con­firmed Sum­mit Speak­ers include:

  • Dr. Tracy Alloway, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­sity of North Florida; author of AWMA assessment
  • Dr. Gre­gory Bayer, CEO, Brain Resource
  • Dr. Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psychology-Neuropsychology, UCLA Semel Insti­tute for Neuroscience
  • Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO, SharpBrains
  • Dr. Sheryl Flynn, CEO, Blue Mar­ble Game Co
  • Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter, UCSF
  • Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, author, sci­en­tist, neuropsychologist
  • Eric Gor­don, CEO, Atentiv
  • Dr. Evian Gor­don, Exec­u­tive Chair­man, Brain Resource
  • Jonas Jendi, GM and VP, Cogmed/ Pearson
  • Dr. Holly Jimi­son, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Dept of Med­ical Infor­mat­ics & Clin­i­cal Epi­demi­ol­ogy, Ore­gon Health & Sci­ence University
  • Dr. C. Shawn Green, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, Pres­i­dent, Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foundation
  • Dr. Ken­neth Kosik, Direc­tor, UCSB Neu­ro­science Insti­tute; Founder, CFIT
  • Dr. Paul Nuss­baum, clin­i­cal neuropsychologist
  • Dr. Michael Pos­ner, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus, Uni­ver­sity of Oregon
  • Dr. Bill Reich­man, CEO, Baycrest
  • Dr. David Rock, Co-Founder, Neu­roLead­er­ship Institute
  • Dr. Yaakov Stern, Head Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science Divi­sion of the Taub Insti­tute, Colum­bia University
  • Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang, Direc­tor, Texas Tech Neu­roimag­ing Institute

Reg­is­tra­tion will open on March 5th (Sum­mit web­site will become avail­able then). If you want to nom­i­nate a Speaker, or are inter­ested in becom­ing a Spon­sor or Part­ner, please Con­tact Us.

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