Developing a Retinal Prosthesis for the Blind
– Technical Challenges

Shawn K. Kelly
Senior Systems Scientist
Institute for Complex Engineering Systems
Carnegie Mellon University
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Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders:
What are they, and what can we do about them?

Nancy Baker, ScD, MPH, OTR/L
Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy
Graduate Faculty, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
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Introduction to the Health Care Cost Institute:
What to Do with Five Billion Health-Care Records

Martin S. Gaynor
E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy
J. John Heinz III College and Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
and Chair of the Governing Board, The Health Care Cost Institute
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Large-scale Social Simulations for Public Health:
Computational Challenges and Opportunities

John J. Grefenstette
Director, Public Health Dynamics Laboratory and Professor of Biostatistics
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
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Models and Meta-models for Public Health Decision Making

Donald S. Burke
Director, Center for Vaccine Research, UPMC-Jonas Salk Chair in Global Health
Distinguished University Professor of Health Science and Policy
University of Pittsburgh
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Health Reform and New Care Models at UPMC

Steven D. Shapiro
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
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