Aspen Ideas: Health is the conference where healthcare’s biggest challenges meet its biggest thinkers.
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Schedule
Browse hundreds of sessions and see what our speakers will be discussing. Our schedule spans the 10 days of the Festival, from the beginning of Aspen Ideas: Health to end of Festival 2.
Continuing Medical Education for Physicians and Nurses
Aspen Ideas: Health has partnered with the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower to offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) for members of the medical community.
We tackle topics from planet-wide crises to personalized medicine, and from groundbreaking discoveries to stories of people on the front lines of care.
2019 Health
Program Tracks
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How do we nurture trust between doctors and patients? What is the role of profit in research?
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What’s in the lab, what’s moving to the bedside, and where do we go next?
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Consumers have more opportunities than ever to take control over their own health.
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People are having less sex, yet sexually-transmitted diseases are on the rise.
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The opportunity to grow old is a privilege not afforded to everyone.
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Finance and health are among the fastest-growing sectors of the economy.
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Can we nurture the microbiome ecosystem, sustain gut health, and keep inflammatory diseases at bay?
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Will new attitudes and better alternatives allow more people to get the treatment they need?
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Innovators undaunted by past failures, corporations finding ways to grow a healthy workforce, and policymakers who untangle “wicked” problems offer a future-facing vision.
Featured speakers
Marc Freedman is president and CEO of Encore.org, an innovation hub tapping the talents of people 50 and over for good. He spearheaded the Purpose Prize and co-founded Experie...
Agnes Igoye is Uganda’s deputy national coordinator for the prevention of trafficking in persons and heads Uganda’s Immigration Training Academy. She is a 2018 Aspen New Voice...
Nasha Fitter is CEO of the FOXG1 Research Foundation, which she co-founded after her daughter was diagnosed with FOXG1 syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that impacts speech, m...
Nora McInerny is a writer, storyteller, and creator. A reluctant grief expert, she miscarried her second baby, lost her father to cancer, and lost her husband, Aaron, to a bra...
