Potential and Possibilities: From the Very Critical to the Very Difficult
Date: Monday, June 29, 2009
Presented by
Thomas Miller
Chief Executive Officer, Workflow and Solutions Division
Siemens Healthcare
Abstract
Tom Miller, a noted and passionate advocate of medical imaging technology will present an intriguing view of the possibilities of medical technology in predicting, diagnosing, characterizing and treating disease. Miller will discuss the innovations of the past and the move forward as medicine and technology converge to develop the most effective standards of care and innovate new approaches to the most difficult of diseases, while realizing the potential of personalized medicine.
Speaker Biography
Thomas (Tom) J. Miller, Jr. is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Siemens Healthcare’s Workflow and Solutions division. Previously, Tom was a member of the Group Board of Siemens Medical Solutions and has an impressive record of leadership within Siemens and other multi-national companies. He led Siemens Healthcare Information Technology business, the magnetic resonance division and the US sales and service organization. His broad range of expertise also includes leadership roles at Carl Zeiss, Inc. and Analogic Corporation. Additionally, his entrepreneurship includes co-founding LightLab Imaging, which commercialized a new diagnostic imaging method, optical coherence tomography (OCT), enabling the acquisition and display of real-time ultra high-resolution cross sectional images with light.
This broad range of experience and expertise in medical physics and information technology have served to shape Tom’s passion for medicine and for transforming how we approach the prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.
Tom holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering with a minor in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters of Science degree from the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joint program in Medical Physics.