(Washington, DC – April 27, 2016) – Galileo Analytics Co-Founder Anna McCollister-Slipp will join FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and informatics leaders from IBM, NIH and the Brookings Institution next week on a featured panel at the 26th Annual Society for Women’s Health Research gala in Washington, DC.
This year’s gala is focused on the potential for digital health tools and electronic health data to revolutionize health care and health research.
In addition to McCollister-Slipp and Califf, the panel discussion will include Kavita Patel, MD, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Jennie Larkin, PhD, Senior Advisor for Extramural Programs and Strategic Planning at the NIH and Jane L. Snowdon, PhD, Director, Watson Health Partnerships, IBM.
The evening will also include keynote presentations from Alyson McGregor, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University and David Page, MD, Director of the Whitehead Institute, Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
For more information on the 26th Annual Society for Women’s Health Research gala visit www.SWHR.org.
About SWHR
The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR®), is a national nonprofit based in Washington D.C. that is widely recognized as the thought-leader in promoting research on biological differences in disease and is dedicated to transforming women’s health through science, advocacy, and education. Founded in 1990 by a group of physicians, medical researchers and health advocates, SWHR aims to bring attention to the variety of diseases and conditions that disproportionately or predominately affect women.
