Danaher Event

2023 Danaher Summit: Insights to Impact

11.07.23 EDT

Washington, DC
United States

Hand in blue glove holding glass histology slides

The 2023 Danaher Summit convened diagnostics leaders, patients, healthcare professionals and innovators to share their insights, research findings and practical experiences in this critical field.

About the event

On November 7, 2023, we held the second annual Danaher Summit. The event, themed Diagnostics: Insights to Impact, featured provocative and insightful commentary on ways to close inequalities in access and dynamically integrate transformative innovations more quickly into the healthcare ecosystem.

The Summit also explored how other fast-moving fields, such as artificial intelligence, can drive this transformation and integration and ultimately make healthcare more patient-centric and responsive.

Attended by some of the most critical thinkers and voices in diagnostics, including world-renowned academic researchers, industry innovators, healthcare providers, and patient advocates, the event was a galvanizing moment for leaders with a shared commitment to advancing healthcare through innovation, collaboration and dedication to better healthcare for all. 

Watch opening remarks by Danaher President & CEO Rainer Blair

Watch a two-minute recap of the Summit

Keynote Addresses

Hear from some of the world’s most prominent voices in diagnostics and healthcare on the important roles diagnostics will play in the future of health, from empowering patient knowledge to making earlier cancer detection possible and addressing global antibiotic resistance.  

Screenshot of Embracing Innovation in Public Heath YouTube talk

Embracing Innovation in Public Health to Reimagine Preemptive Cancer Care

Stephen Hahn, MD 

 

Dr. Hahn addresses the ambition to make early cancer detection as routine and accessible as a cholesterol test, through multi-cancer early detection (MCAD) screening. Timely, broad access is critical for early detection tools – as is rebuilding trust. 
 

Screenshot of From Data to Diagnosis to Delivery YouTube talk

From Data to Diagnosis to Delivery: Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine

Atul Butte, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Butte rallies scientists and clinicians to harness an ever-growing reservoir of healthcare data that is already being used to empower patients, improve health equity, and inform clinical decision-making while reducing clinicians’ administrative burdens.

Screenshot of Too Little, Too Late YouTube talk

Too Little, Too Late

Lord Ara Darzi of Denham

 

Lord Darzi calls for a coordinated, decentralized approach to point-of-care diagnostics that considers scaled access and equity across whole populations.  
 

Keynote Addresses: Q&A Sessions

Following each keynote address, the presenter sat down with a Danaher executive for a brief question and answer session. 

Screenshot of Embracing Innovation YouTube talk Q&A Session

Embracing Innovation in Public Health to Reimagine Preemptive Cancer Care Q&A

Stephen Hahn, MD 

 

Moderated by Joakim Weidemanis, Executive Vice President, Danaher Corporation
 

Screenshot of From Data to Diagnosis YouTube talk Q&A Session

From Data to Diagnosis to Delivery: Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine Q&A

Atul Butte, Ph.D.

 

Moderated by Joachim Reischl, Head of Innovation, Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Danaher Corporation

Screenshot of Too Little Too Late YouTube talk Q&A Session

Too Little, Too Late Q&A

Lord Ara Darzi of Denham

 

Moderated by Jose-Carlos Gutiérrez-Ramos, Chief Science Officer, Danaher Corporation
 

Panel Discussions

Dive into topic-focused discussions from experts across the diagnostics spectrum. Our panels featured engaging conversations on pressing issues including critical needs in patient advocacy, the changing role of diagnostics in medical education, defining hurdles to implementing the next generation of diagnostic tools and beyond. 

Screenshot of The Access Odyssey: When Health Equity is Not Equal YouTube talk

The Access Odyssey: When Health Equity is Not Equal

Moderated by Sarah Kehoe, PhD

 

Panelists:
Loriana Hernandez-Aldama, ArmorUp for LIFE; Maimah Karmo, Tigerlily Foundation; Gary Puckrein, PhD, National Minority Quality Forum; Cecelia Schott, PharmD, MBA, Novartis

 

Hear from an interdisciplinary group discussing how basic access, education, trust, and social determinants of health play critical roles for patients and providers in making quality care and testing opportunities accessible to all patients.
 

Screenshot of Overcoming Big Data Chaos: YouTube talk

Overcoming Big Data Chaos: Intelligent Integration of Complex Data for Patient Care, Are We Ready?

Moderated by Ephraim Tsalik, MD, PhD

 

Panelists:
Scott L. Friedman, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Mara Aspinall, MBA, BlueStone Venture Partners; Kemi Badaki-Makun, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD, Culmination Bio, Intermountain Precision Genomics 

 

Over the past decade, revolutionary technologies have led to an unprecedented explosion of disease data. This panel explores how we can ensure providers have the resources to distill, use, and champion these complex data and diagnostic solutions in their quest for precision patient care.  

Screenshot of Big Data, Bigger Dreams:  YouTube talk

Big Data, Bigger Dreams: Leveraging AI to Maximize Value-Based Care

Moderated by Akhil Saklecha, MD, MBA 

 

Panelists:
Paul David Banick, MD, PhD, MBA, formerly United Healthcare, presently Dynamic Health Results, PLLC; Lee Fisher, MD, formerly Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Jill Hagenkord, MD, FCAP, Optum Genomics; Adam Myers, MD MHCM FACHE CHCQM CPHRM
 

Value-based care strives to be a model for efficient and effective delivery of healthcare. This panel explores the role of evidence generation in diagnostic market access, including coding, coverage and reimbursement and the role of patient data and AI in optimizing value-based care and how it may help identify, predict, and manage patients more efficiently and effectively. 

Screenshot of Constant Evolution YouTube talk

Constant Evolution: Implementing and Scaling Transformative Diagnostics Within the Healthcare System

Moderated by Anette Engelhardt
 

Panelists:
T. Clifford Deveny, MD, Summa Health; Bill Morice, MD, PhD, Mayo Collaborative Services, American Clinical Laboratory Association; Tom Vo, MD, MBA, Nutex Health; Michael Zinner, MD, Miami Cancer Institute

 

Hospital leaders are continually challenged with staying ahead of the ever-evolving healthcare landscape. This panel explores how hospital leaders can gain the confidence needed to leverage diagnostics as effective tools that aid in clinical decision making and improve health system performance.

Screenshot of When There Is Only One Way:  YouTube talk

When There Is Only One Way: Innovating a Healthier Future

Moderated by Vanessa Almendro, PhD, MBA 
 

Panelists:
Andy Beck, MD, PhD, PathAI; Anthony Philippakis, MD, PhD, Broad Institute, Google Ventures; Shai Shen-Orr, PhD, Technion, CytoReason; David Walt, PhD, Harvard Medical School

 

Hear how different stakeholders can come together under new models to advance precision diagnostics. Whether through embracing complex new technologies or democratizing existing tests to patients via point-of-care solutions to maintain and restore health, there are countless opportunities to drive us from innovation to impact.  

Lightning Presentations

How Danaher is Catalyzing Innovation

 

Danaher's Diagnostics businesses are catalyzing the future of diagnostics through collaborative R&D innovation. In the lightning presentations, our leaders showcase new platforms, modalities and approaches being developed to push the boundaries of what is possible in precision diagnostics. 

 

From infectious disease and oncology to neurology and digital clinical decision support tools, hear how Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, Cepheid and Leica Biosystems are leading the way in researching and developing the cutting-edge tools needed most by labs and clinicians.

Screenshot of Emergency care YouTube talk

Transforming Emergency Care Using Artificial Intelligence

Jeremiah Hinson, MD, PhD, Beckman Coulter

 

Dr. Hinson discusses the use of TriageGo, a clinical decision support tool embedded in the electronic health record that supports triage nurses by applying artificial intelligence to emergency department assessments of severity.
 

Screenshot of Pathonomics YouTube talk

Digital Pathology Comes of Age: Pathomics and Spatial Profiling

Rob Monroe, MD, PhD, Leica Biosystems

 

Dr. Monroe discusses the use of image-based innovative technologies such as digital pathology, spatial profiling, and high-flow imaging to advance oncology diagnostics.

Screenshot of neurodegenerative disease YouTube talk

Diagnostics for Neurodegenerative Disease

Zivjena Vucetic, MD, PhD, Beckman Coulter

 

Dr. Vucetic examines recent advances in high sensitivity immunoassay-based biomarker testing and emerging biomarker panels for the diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative disease and neurocognitive disorders. 
 

Screenshot of Sepsis subtyping YouTube talk

The Danaher Diagnostic Beacon for Sepsis Subtyping Innovation at Oxford University

Julian Knight, DPhil, Oxford; Jonathan Siegrist, PhD., Cepheid

 

Drs. Knight and Siegrist discuss an exciting new development in identifying different subtypes of sepsis – a pathological immune reaction that accounts for one out of every five deaths globally each year. 
 

More from Danaher