Segment 1:
Technology and Health Care

Today, health care spending in the U.S. is currently almost 17% of GDP and expected by 2017 to rise to almost 20% of GDP, higher than any other developed nation. Controlling health care costs is clearly at the heart of everyone's agenda, but the billion or perhaps trillion dollar question is how do we best do that? Is new technology helping us reduce health care costs or causing us to continue to increase these costs? And what areas in medicine have the greatest potential for improving clinical outcomes while at the same time bringing down costs?

Guest:
Michael Cima, Material Science Professor at MIT and Faculty Director of the Lemelson-MIT Program

Professor Cima is the author or co-author of over one hundred and ninety scientific publications and forty-five patents. He is also the co-founder of 4 companies in the health technology field and is actively involved in materials and engineered systems for improvements in human health such as treatments for cancer, metabolic diseases, trauma and urological disorders. He received a BS in Chemistry in 1982 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1986 both from the University of California at Berkeley.

Segment 2 :
Living an Extraordinary Life

Whether coaching a CEO at a billion dollar company or a teenager who can’t find direction, Lauren Zander seems to have an uncommon talent for helping people articulate and go after the life they really want to live. It seems so natural that we should be wired to live our lives this way, but what things seem to come in the way of this? We explore with Lauren what people's biggest roadblocks are to living the life that they really want to live, and how she teaches people to overcome these roadblocks.

Guest:
Lauren Zander, Chairman and Co-founder of the Handel Group

Lauren Zander is the chairman and co-founder of the Handel Group a corporate consulting and private life coaching business. Lauren teaches a popular and groundbreaking course at MIT, NYU and Rutgers called Designing Your Life. She is currently developing audio products, finishing up a weight loss book, developing a TV show, started “Coaches Corner” on businessweek.com where she is a featured career coach and is featured monthly in Shape magazine as the life coach who is assisting a writer in losing 80 lbs. Lauren graduated from George Washington University with a BS in Environmental Studies.