UI Health Care to host simulcast of D.C. sessions April 10-13
Friday, April 6, 2012
Written by: UI Health Care Media Relations

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.