Health Cities

January 26, 2022

Mapping out the course ahead

Our cities have a massive opportunity to build regional economies around a focus on health, well-being and vitality. Wellness can be an economic strategy for places that choose to be Health Cities. It includes building clinical healthcare, as well as investment in health sciences, food innovation, wearables, digital health, and much more.

Health Cities are also emerging as destinations and magnets for talent and investment because they have urban spaces that encourage and facilitate healthy living through their design, green spaces, local food, fresh air, and exercise.

Rochester, MN, home to the Mayo Clinic, is leading the way as a Health City. It’s a global destination for health and wellness, attracting top talent, emerging as a center for R&D in health data, and offers a catalytic model for growth in the region and across the nation.

On January 26, CityAge, in collaboration with Minnesota Finance & Commerce and Destination Medical Center, brought together the leaders mapping out the course ahead for the development of health-focused district communities across the world.

WITH SUPPORT FROM INDUSTRY PARTNERS:

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PROGRAM

11:30 am

Anchor Welcome and Introduction: Naomi Parness, Founder, KPW Communications

11:35 am

Opening Presentation by: Travis McCready, Executive Director, JLL

11:40 am

Presentation by: Patrick Seeb, Executive Director, Destination Medical Center

12:05 pm

Fireside Chat: Wellness as Economic Strategy

How cities can approach health and wellness as an economic strategy. What results have Kitchener and Rochester seen from their investments in the health industry?

  • Berry Vrbanovic, Mayor, Kitchener, ON
  • Kim Norton, Mayor, Rochester, MN
  • Host: David Bohlander, Assistant Editor, Finance & Commerce
12:25 pm

Presentation by: Darryl Knight, VP Research and Academic Affairs, Providence Health Care

12:40 pm

Fireside Chat: When Research Integrates with Physical Space

This session will look at how the most productive health research clusters in the world integrate with physical space. What kinds of spaces foster the innovation and research results that drive amazing health discoveries? And how do we ensure physical spaces have the technological connectivity and support modern research requires?

  • Clark Otley, Chief Medical Officer, Mayo Clinic Platform, Mayo Clinic
  • Kristin-Anne Rutter, Executive Director, Cambridge University Health Partners
  • Host: Chris Schad, Director of Business Development, Discovery Square, Mayo Clinic

1:05 pm

Panel: Health in the City: Urban Design, Entrepreneurship, Community

What kind of urban design, architecture, and infrastructure does a Health City need? How design can foster wellness and increase productivity at the same time, how healthcare providers and researchers can engage the communities they live in, and how Health Cities boost community health through their built environment.

  • Leena Pradhan-Nabzdyk, CEO & Co-Founder, Canomiks
  • Matt Enstice, CEO, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
  • Katherine Gergen-Barnett, Fellow, Boston University Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy
  • Paul Limburg, Chief Medical Officer, Screening, Exact Sciences
  • Panel Host: Naomi Parness, Founder, KPW Communications
1:35 pm

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