- October 28-31, 2009
 - San Diego, CA
 
The fifth event in the TEDMED series created by Richard Saul Wurman, and now co-hosted by Marc Hodosh. TEDMED2009 explored the connections between all things medical and healthcare related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital.
See also blog coverage from medgadget.com: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4.
Speakers
| John Abele |  
								
																												Founder and Chairman, Boston Scientific
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| David Agus |  
								
																												Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California
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| Sekou Andrews |  
								
																												Spoken word artist, playwright, actor and musician 
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| Colin Angle |  
								
																												Co‐Founder, Chairman & CEO, iRobot
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| Anthony Atala |  
								
																												Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
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| Neal Baer |  
								
																												Executive Producer, ER & Law & Order Special Victims Unit 
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| Damien Bates |  
								
																												Chief Medical Officer, Organogenesis
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| Keith Black |  
								
																												Chairman of Neurosurgery, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center
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| David Blaine |  
								
																												Magician 
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| Tim Brown |  
								
																												CEO, IDEO
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| Deepak Chopra |  
								
																												Chairman & Co-Founder, Chopra Center for Wellbeing
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| Steve W. Cole |  
								
																												Vice President of Research, HopeLab
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| Faith D'Aluisio |  
								
																												Photojournalist and former television news producer 
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| Bill Davenhall |  
								
																												Global Marketing Manager, Health & Human Services Solutions, ESRI
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| Aubrey de Grey |  
								
																												Researcher on aging 
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| Peter Diamandis |  
								
																												Chairman, X Prize Foundation
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| Eric Dishman |  
								
																												Co-founder, Center for Aging Services
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| Jesse Dylan |  
								
																												Hollywood Film Director 
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| Ekeziel Emanuel |  
								
																												Special Advisor for Health Policy, OMB, Executive Office of President Obama
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| Helena Foulkes |  
								
																												Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, CVS Caremark
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| David Gallo |  
								
																												Ocean explorer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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| Sanjay Gupta |  
								
																												Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN
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| Herbie Hancock |  
								
																												Jazz legend 
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| Goldie Hawn |  
								
																												Founder, The Hawn Foundation
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| Jamie Heywood |  
								
																												Co-founder & Chairman, PatientsLikeMe
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| Jason Hwang |  
								
																												Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight Institute
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| Paul Jacobs |  
								
																												Chairman & CEO, Qualcomm
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| Barton Kamen |  
								
																												Chief Medical Officer, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
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| Dean Kamen |  
								
																												Founder, DEKA Research and Development
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| Ken Kamler |  
								
																												Microsurgeon 
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| Donna Karan |  
								
																												Founder, UrbanZen Foundation
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| Daniel Kraft |  
								
																												Founder and Chief Medical Officer, StemCor Systems
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| Bill Lange |  
								
																												Director, Advanced Image & Visualization Lab, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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| Jack Lord |  
								
																												President & CEO, Navigenics
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| Philip Low |  
								
																												Founder, Chairman & CEO, NeuroVigil Inc.
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| Greg Lucier |  
								
																												Chairman & CEO, Life Technologies
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| Eric Mead |  
								
																												Magician 
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| Peter Menzel |  
								
																												Photojournalist 
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| Aimee Mullins |  
								
																												Athlete and actor 
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| Kary Mullis |  
								
																												Biochemist 
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| Dean Ornish |  
								
																												President & Founder, Preventive Medicine Research Institute 
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| Scott Parazynski |  
								
																												Astronaut & Physician 
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| David Pogue |  
								
																												Technology columnist, New York Times
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| Richard Satava |  
								
																												Senior Science Advisor, US ARMY Medical Research
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| Dan Siegel |  
								
																												Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
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| Dan Siegel |  
								
																												Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
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| Eric Silfen |  
								
																												Chief Medical Officer, Philips
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| David Sinclair |  
								
																												Co-Founder, SIRTRIS
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| Jill Sobule |  
								
																												Singer-songwriter 
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| Dave Stewart |  
								
																												Musician & Record Producer 
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| Dave Stewart |  
								
																												Musician & Record Producer 
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| Martha Stewart |  
								
																												Founder, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
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| Vic Strecher |  
								
																												Founder & Chief Visionary Officer, Health Media Inc.
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| Andrew M. Thompson |  
								
																												Co-founder & CEO, Proteus
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| Eric Topol |  
								
																												Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
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| Alexander Tsiaras |  
								
																												Founder & CEO, Anatomical Travelogue
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| J. Craig Venter |  
								
																												Founder, Synthetic Genomics
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| Andrew Well |  
								
																												Physician  
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| Anne Wojcicki |  
								
																												Founder, 23andMe
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| Laura Ziskin |  
								
																												Co-Founder & Executive Producer, Stand Up To Cancer
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