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Eighth Annual Lake Nona Impact Forum Convenes Health And Wellbeing Thought Leaders In Orlando, Florida

Speakers include Sanjay Gupta, Deepak Chopra, Russell Wilson, Brooke Shields, Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan, CVS Health Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer Alan Lotvin, DEKA Research and Development President Dean Kamen, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean of Faculty Michelle Williams, and Leaders of the American Medical Association, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration

(ORLANDO, Fla. Feb. 25, 2020) – The annual Lake Nona Impact Forum will convene 300 of the brightest minds and global thought leaders in health, wellbeing, and technology Feb. 26-28 in the innovative community of Lake Nona in Orlando, Fla. The three-day forum will feature a series of in-depth, collaborative discussions about innovative approaches to health and wellbeing. In partnership with Fortune Media, the 2020 Lake Nona Impact Forum will explore a variety of timely topics including health care policy, solutions for the opioid epidemic, mental health and performance, the impact of smart technology, understanding medical cannabis, and game-changers in cancer treatment. 

This year’s Lake Nona Impact Forum speakers include Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean of Faculty Michelle Williams, Verizon Senior Vice President of Enterprise Innovation and 5G Solutions Toby Redshaw, Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan, Seattle Seahawks Quarterback and Founder of Limitless Minds Russell Wilson, Fortune President and CEO Alan Murray, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. President and CSO George D. Yancopoulos, KPMG Partner and Vice Chairman Laura Newinski, Massachusetts General Hospital Vice-Chair of Neurology Rudolph Tanzi, and American Medical Association CEO James Madara, along with returning speakers Sanjay Gupta and Deepak Chopra. These speakers will be joined by some of the nation’s foremost health and wellbeing experts and specialists for collaborative conversations that impact individuals, companies, communities and governments across the world. 

The Lake Nona Impact Forum sessions tackle a diverse range of important and intriguing topics. This year, leaders across business, sports, and entertainment are gathering to discuss the final frontier in medicine – the human brain. Different panels led by Brian Moynihan, Brooke Shields, Rudolph Tanzi, Mariel Hemingway, and Russell Wilson will explore the latest in mental health and performance. Returning for 2020, world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming will lead a conversation about the impact of music on healing with MIT Media Lab Academic Head Tod Machover. Fleming will also share the stage with composer Chloe Flower and recording artist Chris Mann for the first time with a special musical performance.

In addition to a notable line-up of speakers and sessions, the 2020 Lake Nona Impact Forum will also welcome the New York-based Urban Yogis to keep attendees active during the conference. Urban Yogis help introduce the transformative tools of yoga and meditation to at-risk and underprivileged youth and currently teach in the New York City Public School System and detention centers within their community resulting in drastic reductions in crime rates as an example. Co-founded by Erica Ford, renowned yoga teacher Eddie Stern, and Deepak Chopra, the Urban Yogis inspire their audiences to choose alternative pathways toward personal and social transformation.

“The wellbeing ecosystem extends beyond traditional health care and encompasses a large network of integrated elements that impact how we live,” said Lake Nona Institute Executive Director and co-Founder of the Impact Forum, Gloria Caulfield. “Every year, we are excited to gather some of the world’s most outstanding minds at the Lake Nona Impact Forum. We’re proud to facilitate the conversations and connections that can lead to scalable impact and the next great breakthroughs while these leaders are here in Lake Nona.”

Lake Nona, one of the country’s fastest-growing communities, epitomizes the whole ecosystem of wellbeing thanks to purposeful planning, a robust events calendar, miles of trails, intertwined parks and gathering spots, and a vibrant community art program. Home to top hospitals and research facilities, the U.S. Tennis Association National Campus, and Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, Lake Nona is a living lab where the latest technologies and innovative solutions are tested in a real-world environment. Lake Nona’s WHIT project, a model for the future of healthy homes led by the Lake Nona Institute, is one way the community incubates new ideas. During the 2020 Lake Nona Impact Forum, WHIT will showcase the latest technology from Verizon and View with demonstrations that show how these groundbreaking new advancements can impact the home and empower a healthier, happier lifestyle.

The Lake Nona Impact Forum is hosted by the Lake Nona Institute – a nonprofit, community-focused organization that leads Lake Nona’s wellbeing initiatives. In addition to the Impact Forum, the Institute’s current projects include a longitudinal study known as the Lake Nona Life Project and WHIT.

Speakers and panelists include:

  • Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD: Principal Deputy Commissioner and Acting CIO, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Jeff Arnold: Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Sharecare
  • Elizabeth Bradley, PhD: President, Vassar College 
  • Holly Benson: Executive Vice President, CEO, and President Health Care Enterprises, Centene
  • Dale E. Bredesen, MD: Professor, UCLA; Founding President and Professor Emeritus, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
  • John Hope Bryant: Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc.
  • Barry Byrne, MD, PhD: Professor and Associate Chair, University of Florida
  • Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS: 17th Surgeon General of the United States; Chief of Health Innovations, Canyon Ranch; Distinguished Professor, University of Arizona; Chairman, Lake Nona Impact Forum, Advisory Board
  • John F. Crowley: Chairman and CEO, Amicus Therapeutics
  • Renée Fleming: World Renowned Soprano and Artistic Advisor, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • William Frist, MD: Partner and Chairman, Cressey & Company Distinguished Executives Council
  • Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH: Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
  • Patrick Geraghty: President and CEO, GuideWell and Florida Blue
  • Brett P. Giroir, MD: Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service; Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • K. Guru Gowrappan: CEO, Verizon Media
  • Patrice Harris, MD: President, American Medical Association
  • Mark Hoplamazian: President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels Corporation
  • Dean Kamen: President, DEKA Research and Development 
  • Eric Lefkofsky: Founder and CEO, Tempus; Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Groupon
  • Alan M. Lotvin, MD: Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer, CVS Health
  • James Madara, MD: Executive Vice President and CEO, American Medical Association
  • R. Lawrence Moss, MD, FACS, FAAP: President and CEO, Nemours Children’s Health System
  • Brian Moynihan: Chairman and CEO, Bank of America
  • Alan Murray: President and CEO, Fortune 
  • Laura Newinski: Partner and Vice Chairman, KPMG
  • Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, MACP, FACMI: President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer, HCA Healthcare
  • Toby Redshaw: Senior Vice President of Enterprise Innovation and 5G Solutions, Verizon
  • Brooke Shields: Actress, Model, and Author
  • Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD: Vice-Chair of Neurology, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, and Co-Director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health, Massachusetts General Hospital; Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
  • Seema Verma: Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  • Nora Volkow, MD: Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • Michelle Williams: Dean of Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Russell Wilson: Super Bowl Champion; Seattle Seahawks Quarterback; Founder, Limitless Minds 
  • George D. Yancopoulos, MD, PhD: President and CSO, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

To help develop innovative solutions to challenges in achieving optimum health and related technology, the 2020 Lake Nona Impact Forum is hosted in a health and life sciences cluster known as Lake Nona Medical City. Impact Forum host venues include the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, the University of Florida Research and Academic Center, KPMG Lakehouse National Training Center, and the GuideWell Innovation Center.

The 2020 Lake Nona Impact Forum is presented by KPMG, GuideWell Innovation, Integrated Wellness Partners, AdventHealth, Citibank, Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, HCA Healthcare, Amicus Therapeutics, Microsoft, Verizon Communications, Technogym, Dr. Phillips Charities, Nemours Children’s Health System, UCF College of Medicine, University of Florida Health, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Covance, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Holland & Night, Sharecare, Siemens Healthineers, Solid Biosciences, Tabula Rosa Healthcare Inc., Terra Carta, USTA, View, Visit Orlando, City of Orlando, Watercrest Senior Living Group, Orange County Government, and HKS Architects. 

To learn more about the Lake Nona Impact Forum and Lake Nona Institute, visit www.LakeNonaImpactForum.org and www.LakeNonaInstitute.org.  Follow along with the Impact Forum on Twitter and Instagram at @LN_ Institute and at Facebook.com/LakeNonaInstitute. You can also join the conversation online using the hashtag #LNIF20.

About Lake Nona Institute:

Lake Nona Institute is a nonprofit, community-focused organization that incubates, activates and measures the impact of innovative technologies and programs that can become global models for building healthy, sustainable and inspired communities. The Institute focuses on programs based on: health and wellbeing, education, and sustainability. At its core, Lake Nona Institute believes that individuals in the social context of a community can and do have a profound impact on wellness, education, and sustainability. For more information, visit http://lakenonainstitute.org/. 

About Lake Nona:

Located in Orlando, Fla., Lake Nona is one of the fastest-growing master-planned communities in America developed by Tavistock Development Company. Known for thoughtfully designed neighborhoods, top-rated education facilities, business and research clusters, retail and entertainment centers, and diverse workspaces, Lake Nona encompasses the best Central Florida has to offer. Lake Nona sets the foundation for a collaborative relationship between the people who live, work, and visit there by prioritizing forward-thinking technology, strategic partnerships, education, and wellbeing. For more information, visit www.lakenona.com   

Building An Ecosystem Of Wellbeing To Be Focus Of Seventh Annual Lake Nona Impact Forum In Orlando, Florida

Terrestrial Applications of Space Medicine, Mind/Body Strategies to Unleash Human Potential; Music, Culture, Plant-Based Eating, Sports, Human Performance and Medicine to be Explored

Speakers include Renée Fleming, Grant Hill, Alice Walton, Steve Case, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Deepak Chopra and Norman E. Sharpless, MD

(Lake Nona, Orlando, Fla; Feb. 14, 2019) – More than 250 of the nation’s leading health care entrepreneurs and innovators, academics, government officials, cultural ambassadors, sports figures and other thought leaders will explore, discuss and develop solutions to improve global approaches to enhancing wellbeing and health at the 2019 Lake Nona Impact Forum held Feb. 20-22 in Lake Nona, Orlando, Fla. The forum, which echoes the vision of Lake Nona, a well-regarded, forward-thinking wellness community, will feature a series of in-depth, collaborative discussions about innovative approaches to health and wellbeing, including identifying the ways that music and art can impact and improve brain health, how innovations from space are leading to health and human performance on earth and how virtual reality and augmented reality can positively impact mental wellbeing. 

Opera star and soprano Renée Fleming, entrepreneur Steve Case, world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation Deepak Chopra, seven-time NBA All-Star Grant Hill along with some of the nation’s foremost health and wellbeing leaders will be among the panelists at the conference.  The Lake Nona Impact Forum, in its seventh year, is held in Lake Nona, one of the fastest-growing communities in the United States and one at the forefront of wellbeing and health.

The three-day symposium is an invitation-only event set in Lake Nona. Recognized by the Global Wellness Institute, Lake Nona is a 17-square-mile integrated, master-planned community home to an innovative health and life sciences cluster and a model for the design of a wellbeing community. Lake Nona’s nonprofit, community-focused organization that leads its wellbeing community initiatives, known as the Lake Nona Institute, hosts the Impact Forum each year. Lake Nona Institute incubates, activates and measures the impact of innovative technologies and programs used in Lake Nona so they can become global models for building healthy, sustainable, and inspired communities. The Institute’s current projects include a longitudinal study founded by Johnson & Johnson known as the Lake Nona Life Project and the development of WHIT, a model for the future of healthy homes.

“Enhancing wellbeing goes far beyond just health and is becoming a larger need across all walks of life,” said Gloria Caulfield, Lake Nona Institute Executive Director. “We are excited to gather some of the world’s most outstanding minds at the Lake Nona Impact Forum, incorporating thought leaders in medicine, the arts, sports, business and government.  Our goal is to put innovative ideas into action that can impact individuals, companies, and communities across the world.”

Speakers and panelists include:

  • Jeff Arnold, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Sharecare
  • Zsolt Bognár, World Renowned Concert Pianist, Mental Health Advocate
  • Mary Carillo, Sports Commentator and Tennis Analyst, NBC, HBO, Tennis Channel, Former Professional Tennis Player
  • Steve Case, Chairman and CEO, Revolution LLC, Founder, AOL
  • Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, Founder, The Chopra Foundation; Co-Founder, Center for Wellbeing
  • Dr. Ron DePinho, MD, Professor and Past President, MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Renée Fleming, World Renowned Soprano, Advocate for the Arts, Education, Music Therapy, and Neuroscience Research
  • Patrick Geraghty, CEO, GuideWell and Florida Blue
  • Sanjay Gupta, MD, Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN, Staff Neurosurgeon, Emory University School of Medicine, Associate Chief of Neurosurgery, Grady Memorial Hospital
  • Grant Hill, Vice Chair of the Board of the Atlanta Hawks, Seven-Time NBA All-Star, Broadcaster, CBS Sports, Turner Sports, NBA TV
  • Kevin Hines, author of the best-selling book, “Cracked, Not Broken,” Global Public Speaker, Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
  • Billie Jean King, Co-Founder BJK Leadership Initiative, Co-Founder, World Team Tennis 
  • Michael Lopez-Alegria, Former NASA Astronaut, Principal, MLA Space LLC
  • Norman E. Sharpless, MD, 15th Director of the National Cancer Institute
  • Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, Vice-Chair of Neurology, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, and Co-Director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Alice Walton, Founder and Chairwoman, Crystal Bridges Museum, Board Member, Walton Family Foundation, Founder, Alice L. Walton Foundation

As stewards of healthy living, Lake Nona is committed to hosting the Impact Forum and leading the conversation for building the wellbeing ecosystem of the future. The event is a think-and-do tank where novel ideas are not only discussed, but can be tested and explored within the Lake Nona community. 

To help develop innovative solutions to challenges in achieving optimum health and related technology, the 2019 Lake Nona Impact Forum is hosted at the health and life sciences cluster of Lake Nona Medical City. Impact Forum host venues include the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, the University of Florida Research and Academic Center, and the GuideWell Innovation Center.

The 2019 Lake Nona Impact Forum is presented by Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, GuideWell Innovation, Technogym, Integrated Wellness Partners, AdventHealth, Citibank, Tavistock Foundation, Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, HCA Healthcare, Nemours Children’s Health System, UCF College of Medicine, University of Florida Health, USTA, Cisco, PepsiCo, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Dr. Phillips Foundation, Bioclinica Research (Compass Research), Visit Orlando, Tavistock Life Sciences, City of Orlando, OUC, Broad and Cassel, Solid Biosciences, HKS, Akerman & Senterfitt, Alston & Bird, Balfour Beatty, Coastal Construction, Moss & Associates, Orange County Government, SleepScore Labs, Sharecare, and BEEP.

To learn more about the Lake Nona Impact Forum and the Lake Nona Institute, visit www.LakeNonaImpactForum.org and www.LakeNonaInstitute.org.  Follow along with the Impact Forum on Twitter and Instagram at @LN_ Institute and at Facebook.com/LakeNonaInstitute. You can also join the conversation online using the hashtag #LNIF19.

About Lake Nona Institute:

Lake Nona Institute is a nonprofit, community-focused organization that incubates, activates and measures the impact of innovative technologies and programs that can become global models for building healthy, sustainable and inspired communities. The Institute focuses on programs based on: Health & Wellness, Education and Sustainability. At its core, Lake Nona Institute believes that individuals in the social context of a community can and do have a profound impact on wellness, education and sustainability.

About Lake Nona:

Orlando’s Lake Nona is one of the fastest-growing communities in America with more than 10 million square feet of world-class residential and commercial facilities.  Adjacent to Orlando International Airport, the large-scale, master-designed community is home to thoughtfully designed neighborhoods, world-class education facilities, a Health & Life Sciences Cluster, a Sports & Performance District highlighted by USTA’s Home of American Tennis – the largest tennis facility in the world, diverse work spaces, recreational facilities, retail centers, and entertainment venues encompassing the best Orlando has to offer with all the conveniences of a dynamic, vibrant community. Driven by a long-term vision, Lake Nona is committed to building an innovative community that inspires human potential whilst being focused on sustainable design, healthy living, and groundbreaking gigabit fiber optic technology. 

For more information, visit www.lakenona.com

At its 6th year, Lake Nona Impact Forum draws big names in health care

February 28, 2018 – The Orlando Sentinel

Lake Nona Institute is kicking off its sixth annual Impact Forum on Today, bringing together some of the nation’s top health-care leaders, executives and academics.

“We envisioned that there was something Lake Nona had to contribute to the country and the world around health innovation,” said Gloria Caufield, executive director of the institute. “We have this unique ecosystem of health and well-being. One of the ways for us to share that was to bring thought leaders to the table who could learn about what we’re doing in Central Florida and bring in timely productive discussions and see what ideas we can take out of the Impact Forum to implement in Lake Nona.”

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This Healthcare Company Is Determined to Have the Healthiest Employees in the World

February 25, 2018 – Johnson & Johnson

At the start of the 20th century, the concept of “workplace wellness,” if it had existed, would have been an oxymoron: The American Industrial Revolution was afoot, and many workers were putting in long hours in dangerous conditions without breaks or benefits.

But Johnson & Johnson has always been more of a trend starter than a follower.

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Building an Ecosystem for Wellbeing to Be Focus of The 2018 Lake Nona Impact Forum

February 22, 2018 – Orlando Medical News

More than 250 of the nation’s leading health care entrepreneurs and innovators, academics, government officials and other thought leaders will discuss and develop solutions to improve health, wellbeing and sustainable living throughout the world at the 2018 Lake Nona Impact Forum held Feb. 28-March 2 in Lake Nona, Orlando, Fla. The sixth annual Lake Nona Impact Forum will focus on the ecosystem of wellbeing and feature a series of collaborative, action-oriented discussions about human longevity, the opioid crisis, the impact of healthy community innovation; progress and challenges in advancing health care; and promising health care technologies and start-ups, among other topics.

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