Technical Event
Panel Discussion on Opportunities for Optics in Cardiovascular Medicine
28 January 2023 • 4:20 PM - 5:45 PM PST | Moscone Center, Room 76 (Lower Mezzanine South) 
Introduction
How to transform an academic medical inventor into an entrepreneur in six painful steps
Kenton Gregory, Oregon Medical Laser Ctr. (United States)

Panel Moderators
Gijs van Soest, Erasmus MC (Netherlands)
Jiawen Li, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)

Panelists
Kenton Gregory, Oregon Medical Laser Ctr. (United States)
Laura Marcu, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Ye Chen-Izu, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Christos Bourantas, St. Bartholomew's Hospital (United Kingdom)
Martin Villiger Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine (United States)

This panel discussion will address pitfalls in the translation of new technologies for diagnosis and therapy from bench to bedside. We will also look ahead to emerging concepts and needs in cardiovascular medicine that currently remain unaddressed.