University of Iowa Health Care is hosting 11 simulcast sessions of TEDMED, an event gathering 1,300 adventurous thinkers and doers from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines April 10-13 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The sessions are free and open to the public.

TEDMED features 11 two-hour sessions; each session features 10 to 15 speakers who will deliver short (3 to 15 minutes each), powerful talks about a single idea. Information on featured speakers can be found at www.tedmed.com/2012speakers.

TEDMED sessions will be shown at various locations throughout UI Health Care facilities. Sessions are scheduled at the following times and places:

Tuesday, April 10
Clasen Board Room (1329 John Colloton Pavilion, UI Hospitals and Clinics)

• Session 1—4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 11
Braley Auditorium (01136 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UI Hospitals and Clinics)

• Session 2—7:45 a.m.
• Session 3—10:15 a.m.
• Session 4—1:15 p.m.
• Session 5—4 p.m.

Thursday, April 12
Braley Auditorium (01136 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UI Hospitals and Clinics)

• Session 6—7:45 a.m.
• Session 7—10:15 a.m.
• Session 8—1:15 p.m.
• Session 9—4 p.m.

Friday, April 13
2189 Medical Education Research Facility

• Session 10—7:45 a.m.
• Session 11—10:15 a.m.