TROY – The Raymond & Prokop Health Care Industry Group will join forces with Automation Alley, Beaumont Hospital and WWJ Newsradio 950 to present Michigan HealthTech 2005, A Time for CollaboratioN, May 24 at the Automation Alley Technology Center.
The breakfast event will feature an opening address by Dr. Conrad Nagle, Corporate Chair of Nuclear Medicine at Beaumont Hospitals who will discuss new technology being employed in the health care arena in an effort to improve efficiencies and drive down costs. He will also discuss the need for collaboration between the medical and technology communities in southeast Michigan; something he strongly believes needs to be strengthened to benefit the region and its businesses.
In addition to Dr. Nagle, a question and answer session will feature a panel of technology, medical and health law experts who will address ways that health care providers, medical practitioners and the technology community can join forces to improve health care efficiencies and continue to grow technology business in Michigan. Panel participants will include: Dr. Thomas E. Anderson, Director of the Automation Alley Tech Center, Robert H. Schwartz, chair of the R&P Health Care Industry Group, and Tom Lewis, President and CEO of iwerk.com.
Dr. Nagle is a much sought after expert on new medical technologies and has been with Beaumont Hospital since 1981, first working as a staff physician before being hired as an instructor at its School of Nuclear Medical Technology. He has since served as the Chief of Nuclear Medicine at the Troy campus and was Corporate Chairman of Nuclear Medicine Services for the William Beaumont Hospitals before taking over his current position in 2003. Dr. Nagle is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and is a member of the Board of Directors for Capintec, Inc. a world leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of state-of-the-art radiation measuring and monitoring instrumentation.
There is a limited amount of seating for this event ? to register- call Nicole Reeves at 248-357-3010 or e-mail her at [email protected]. Automation Alley members will receive $10 off the registration price of $35.
