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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"New Economic Prospects in Cleveland"
March 9, 2007
Crawford Hall, Room 9 - The Inamori Center
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Baiju Shah, J.D. - President of
BioEnterprise
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Dear Colleagues:
The Friday, March 9, Public Affairs lunch
discussion will focus on one of the upsides in
the local economy, the boom in health-related
products and services. Our scheduled speaker is
Baiju Shah, President of BioEnterprise.
BioEnterprise is a business formation, recruitment,
and acceleration initiative designed to grow health
care companies and commercialize bioscience
technologies. Its founders and partners are the
Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Case Western
Reserve University, and Summa Health System. It
works with the commercialization offices of the
Clinic, the university's Office of Technology
Transfer and the Summa Enterprise Group, helping to
promote emerging medical device, biotechnology, and
health care services firms.
Baiju Shah came to Bioenterprise from McKinsey and
Company. He earned his J.D. from Harvard and B.A.
from Yale, and focuses primarily on BioEnterprise's
medical device and health care services companies.
He leads an experienced team with expertise in the
technology, organizational, and financial aspects of
the business development challenge. You can see more
about Bioenterprise, including many of the companies
it has helped start or grow, by going to its
website:
http://www.bioenterprise.com/assets/completeoverview.pdf.
We meet in Crawford Hall, Room 9, on the lower
level of Crawford within the Inamori Center, from
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Hot beverages are kindly
provided by the Office of University Communication,
and cookies by generous donors. Please join us for
what should be an informative discussion of
something about which we all hear a lot, but may not
know very much.
Please remember that next week is Spring Break so
there will be no Friday Lunch. We reconvene, same
time and same place, on March 23 to talk about the
justice system's ability to assess "sexual
predators." Anderson Cooper was discussing the same
topic on CNN last night; maybe we can do better.
Best regards,
Joe White
More About Our
Guest
Baiju R. Shah is the President of BioEnterprise.
He focuses primarily on BioEnterprise's medical
device and health care services companies. For those
clients, Shah counsels on strategic, business
development, and operational matters as well as on
growth financing. Shah came to BioEnterprise from
McKinsey & Company, where he played a leading role
in both the Growth and Business Building and the
Economic Development practices. Shah received a
J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Yale
University.
Spring Semester
Schedule
Beginning on February 2, the Friday Lunch will
move back to Crawford Hall, in ROOM 9. Room 9 is within
the Inamori Center, on the basement level of Crawford.
It is very kind of Bill Deal, Director of the Inamori
Center, to make this room available on a regular basis.
Thank you, Bill!
Room 9 seats 35, with a central table and also chairs
along the wall. It should be a better setup than
Guilford. If we expect a large crowd, we may be able to
open a partition and join up with Room 11.
There will, however, be a class in the room until 12:20.
Therefore it will not be possible to get there much
before the lunch begins. On the other hand, people who
are a bit early should be able to hang out in the
Tomlinson food court. I believe the underground passage
from Tomlinson to Crawford will be restored when
construction is finished.
Coffee will be provided from the SAGES Cafe'. Which
should mean very good coffee.
The tentative schedule of speakers, so far:
January 26: Phil (Perkins Professor of
Physics-Case Western Reserve University) and Sarah
Taylor, Wind Power and All of It's Aspects -
Environmental, Energy, Economic, Aesthetic, and
Maybe More.
February 2: Ken Grundy, Marcus Hanna Professor
Emeritus of Political Science, on subject to be
determined
February 9: Paul Schroeder, Visiting Lecturer in
Political Science and from Families of the Fallen for
Change, on what to do in Iraq
February 16: Mark Turner, Professor of Cognitive
Science, on cognition and politics
February 23: Mel Goldstein, Professor of
Anthropology, on why the Chinese are winning in Tibet
March 2: Susan Helper, Professor of Economics, on
strategies for American workers within the current
global competition.
March 9: Baiju Shah, President, Bioenterprise
Corporation, on the new economic prospects in Cleveland.
March 16: Break
March 23: Mike Aronoff of Cuyahoga County on the
evaluation of sexual predators for the courts―are they
really dangerous, and can we predict if they will reoffend?
March 30: Barbara Morrison, Assistant Professor
of Nursing, on how current patterns of care for Moms and
newborns deny them the peace and quiet and bonding they
need.
April 6:
Horst von Recum, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering; Insoo Hyun, Assistant Professor of
Bioethics; and Greg Eastwood, Interim President of Case
Western Reserve University on Stem Cell Research.
April 13: Marixa Lasso, Assistant Professor of
History: Drugs, War, and Coffee in Colombia
April 20: Mark Joseph, Assistant Professor,
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences: Mixed-Income
Development as an Approach to Addressing Urban Poverty
April 27: Christine Cano, Associate Professor of
French, on the French elections (this date falls between
the first round and the runoff election)
Parking: For
those people who seek to make special arrangements about
parking, the contact person now will be Fay Alexander.
Her phone number is 368-4440, and her e-mail is
fabrienne.alexander@case.edu.
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