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In San Francisco on Tuesday Nov 20th? Then run don't walk to the FREE/OPEN TO THE PUBLIC /NO Reservations Required!! Closing Keynote Session Gerontological Society of America, featuring Eric Dishman of Intel’s Health Research and Innovation Group
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Hilton San Francisco
333 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 771-1400

Keynote Speaker Eric Dishman will discuss, and demonstrate some of the systems in the lab at Intel’s Health Research & Innovation Group. Panel Moderator Susan Ayers Walker, will lead a discussion.

Eric Dishman, General Manager and Global Director of Intel’s Health Research & Innovation Group, is responsible for driving Intel's worldwide research, new product innovation, and usability engineering activities in Digital Health. Located in the U.S. and Europe, his group focuses on developing information & communication technologies across the continuum of healthcare from hospital to home. Trained as a social scientist, Eric is also a Principal Research Scientist for Intel's Digital Health Group, bringing an ethnographic approach to Intel's research and product development efforts as part of the largest social science team in the technology industry.

Eric is co-founder and serves as National Chair of the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST), a cross-industry advocacy group to accelerate technology R&D for aging-in-place. He is co-director of ORCATECH with Dr. Jeff Kaye from Oregon Health & Science University—an NIH funded Roybal Center conducting independent living technology research. Eric helped to found—and is still active in—the Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer’s Care program with the Alzheimer’s Association. He is an internationally known author and speaker—and advises numerous associations, non-profits, companies, universities, & government officials—on personal health technologies, assistive technologies, telemedicine, and home healthcare.

Susan Walker, Founder, and SmartSilvers Alliance; Leading Technology Journalist for AARP.ORG and Founder of SmartSilvers Alliance
Susan is co-founder of the SmartSilvers Alliance. The goal of SmartSilvers is to "leverage technologies which foster active aging” with a mission to promote awareness and development of innovative, consumer-friendly products that cater to the unique needs of our expanding 50+ population, providing independence, mobility and quality of lifestyle. Susan is the lead technology journalist for AARP.ORG and is also an active board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum.