Program
DOC will present actionable milestones from academic and for-profit institutions through an immersive, interactive program that lets our community measure, monitor and gain insight into their own health.
DOC 2024 topics will cover the impact of AI across health, brain computer interfaces, psychedelics, brain imaging, sleep, exercise, diet, advances in cardiac diagnostics, microbiome, truth in supplements, the science of movement, GLP1 agonists, a debate on "is aging a disease," and critical discoveries in longevity science. Through a potent mix of fireside chats, thoughtful debates, and intimate table talks, the DOC experience will explore how medicine is changing, and what is actionable today.
| Time | Name | About | Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, October 24, 2024 | ||||
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Check-in and Orientation | Get your badge, find your room, get ready for DOC! | Lobby | |
| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Welcome Networking Reception | Meet your fellow DOC participants and hear from DOC's founders | Barrel House Lawn | |
| 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Welcome Dinner | Inspired by the classic Oxford format, two teams will debate one of the most contested questions in longevity science. | Barrel House | |
| 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM | Oxford-Style Debate: Is Aging a Disease or a Process? | Inspired by the classic Oxford format, two teams will debate one of the most contested questions in longevity science. | Eric Verdin, M.D., The Buck Institute for Research on Aging Andrea Gartenbach, M.D., Art of Longevity Daniel Krizek, Citadel Karl Pfleger, AgingBiotech.info | The Social |
| Friday, October 25, 2024 | ||||
| 7:15 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast with Google Health | Lobby | ||
| 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | Opening Remarks / Framing for the Day | DOC is not a typical gathering - here's how we'll approach the next two days. Key to the entire dialog is this construct: Opportunity, Obstacle, and Ask. | Jordan Shlain, Private Medical John Battelle, DOC | The Social |
| 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM | Applied Neuroscience: The Implications of Decoding the Brain | Three experts on the brain will prompt a dialog on the larger implications of truly understanding our most inscrutable and complex organ. | David Eagleman, Ph.D., Stanford University Eddie Chang, M.D., University of California San Francisco Arjun Desai, M.D., INSIGHTEC | The Social |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Do Stem Cells Work Right Now? | Has hype overwhelmed promise in the field of stem cells? Where do we stand now? | Leonard Zon, Boston Children's Hospital | The Social |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | What Capital Wants: The Role of Money in Healthcare | Where is the smart money investing, and why? Also: Healthcare in the United States is driven by the profit motive. Is that a good thing, or a problem? | Brenton Fargnoli, M.D., AlleyCorp Lois Quam, Blue Shield of California Kavita Patel, M.D., M.S., New Enterprise Associates | The Social |
| 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Break: Living Room Lab | Head to the Living Room Lab and learn from advanced, personalized diagnostic services. | Living Room Lab | |
| 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Behavior: The Hard Easy Thing: The Science of Sleep, Exercise, Diet and the Microbiome | We all know the best path to a long, healthy life is through better sleep, exercise, nutrition, and social habits. Why is it so hard? | Eric Verdin, M.D., The Buck Institute for Research on Aging Rebecca Robbins, Ph.D., Sleep Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital Emeran Mayer, M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Meagan Wasfy, M.D., MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital | The Social |
| 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Eat Real | One of the fastest growing health-driven non-profits in the US presents its case for reimagining how we feed our children - and make our society healthier in the process. | Nora LaTorre, Eat Real | The Social |
| 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Faculty Table Talks: Intimate Lunch Conversations with the Experts | Sign up at check in to join our Faculty in small group conversations on topics ranging from psychedelics to stem cells. Seating is limited. | Barrel House Lawn | |
| 2:15 PM - 2:35 PM | A Conversation with Vinod Khosla on AI and Health | Fabled investor Vinod Khosla just published a manifesto that states "Quality, consistency, and accessibility in services like healthcare will improve as they become nearly free" thanks to AI. How will that happen, and when? | Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures | The Social |
| 2:35 PM - 3:35 PM | Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics: What Really Works and What You Should Do | Experts and founders of impactful diagnostic and therapeutic platforms guide us in a discussion of how to understand ourselves for optimal health. | Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D., Founder & Executive Director, Neuroscape James K. Min, M.D. FACC, FSCCT, Cleerly Tony Wyss-Coray, Ph.D., Stanford University Leanne Williams, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine | The Social |
| 3:35 PM - 3:50 PM | AI & Health: Is Today Really Different, or Just Recycled Hype? | Who better than Google to contextualize how AI will impact healthcare at scale? | Michael Howell, M.D., MPH, Google | The Social |
| 3:50 PM - 4:20 PM | Break: Living Room Lab | Head to the Living Room Lab and learn from advanced, personalized diagnostic services. | Living Room Lab | |
| 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM | Smarter than Cancer: Opportunities and Obstacles in Oncology | Expert researchers and clinicians in the fields of the most common and deadliest cancers present their opportunities, obstacles, and asks of the DOC community. | Stephanie Kuku, M.D. MBCHB, MRCOG, Conceivable Life Sciences Laura Esserman, M.D., University of California, San Francisco Behfar Ehdaie, M.D., MPH, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | The Social |
| 5:20 PM - 5:40 PM | A Performance by Aloe Blacc | Grammy nominated Aloe Blacc is also an active healthcare investor. | Aloe Blacc | The Social |
| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Break: Living Room Lab | Break before Dinner | ||
| 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM | Cocktail Reception & Dinner | Pavillion Lawn | ||
| 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | A Conversation with Lisa Joy: The Stories We Tell Ourselves | The screenwriter, producer, director, and co-creator of sci-fi mind-benders such as Westworld and Fallout in a late night conversation about how science and technology shape our cultural narratives. | Lisa Joy, Kilter Films | The House Bar |
| 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Afterglow — Ask the Doctors Anything: The Unvarnished Truth | There are more than three dozen MDs at DOC, and in this special Afterglow, they'll gather to answer your questions in real time. | The House Bar | |
| Saturday, October 26, 2024 | ||||
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Breakfast Roundtables: Identifying Obstacles to Scale in Healthcare | DOC's mission is is to scale high-quality, innovative science in longevity and healthcare and properly amplify their core truths. To do that, we need our community members to commit to ongoing work on the sector's biggest problems and obstacles. This is where we'll gather in small groups to start the work. | Lobby | |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Roundtables Readout | A rapid fire reporting out from the morning roundtables | ||
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Mis-information: Finding Signal in The Noise | When asked to identify the largest obstacles to their work, nearly every DOC Faculty member mentioned mis- and dis-information. In this conversation we'll deconstruct the problem and identify solutions. | James Madara, M.D., American Medical Association Lynn Hanessian, Edelman Gul Dolen, UC Berkeley | The Social |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | How The Government Can Help | What is ARPA-H, and how will it allocate the billions it has earmarked for innovation in healthcare? | Darshak Sanghavi, M.D., ARPA-H | The Social |
| 12:00 PM | Departures | Lobby | ||