Back To SpeakersHarald Schmidt
Physician and Systems Medicine Scientist
With a double degree in Medicine and Pharmacy, Harald Schmidt pursues his vision to creatively destruct medicine and replace it by systems medicine. This entails a complete redefinition of what we call disease, how we diagnose it, treat it and finance the costs, not on input but on outcome. His research is funded by the European Research Council, the EU Horizon 2020 programme. He chairs the COST action OpenMultiMed contributing to the Big Data-based evolution of Medicine and is co-editor in chief of the journal Systems Medicine. His multi-national research experience in Academia and Industry has led to high impact publications (Hirsch 83) with high socio-economic relevance such as patents, biotech spin-offs and patient benefit.
Sessions
11/02/2019
11.10 - 11.30
Dubai Municipality Hall
With the pharmaceutical sector constantly growing, a
major question of our era is: Why aren’t we healthier?
Some say we are facing an opioid crisis of epic
proportions with the overprescribtion of medications.
Instead, Systems Medicine takes a holistic view that
hopes to revolutionize the field by personalizing
prescriptions and tailoring treatments to individuals,
down to the cellular level, in lieu of the current
frameworks of designing medicine for the “average”
patient. Harald Schmidt is one of the leading experts
in Systems Medicine and in this session he will discuss
the viability and scalability of such a paradigm shift.
11/02/2019
10.30 - 10.50
Dubai Municipality Hall
Entrepreneur, tech enthusiast, health expert. Dr. Momo Vuyisich is never satisfied with advancing one frontier and he is a man on a mission to utilize technology to improve lives. His latest project is set to cut through all of the confusion surrounding gut health using advanced technology to identify the organisms in your microbiome, and analyze whether they are producing toxins from the food you eat. An artificial intelligence engine then recommends the exact foods you should be eating with the goal to keep your gut in balance. Join us in this session as Dr. Momo talks about the explosion of technology in the healthcare sector and the future of preventative care.