Dear Students / Post-docs,

The Baylor-Rice Consulting and Entrepreneurship Club (http://bcmriceconsulting.rice.edu/) is an endeavor "for-the-students-by-the-students". This week we have two seminars (the 12th and 13th amongst those we have organized). We encourage you to attend the seminars and interact with the speakers. They are doing this 'pro-bono' and as the beneficiary of the information they are sharing with us so generously, we should make it a point that they go back with a high opinion of our students/post-docs. We can ensure this by active participation and making the seminars interactive. The speakers indicate that they are putting the effort so that they can tap into the talent pool at the Texas Medical Center / Rice University. Let us facilitate that by enthusiastically attending the seminars.

Title: Forging a commercialization pathway in academia

Venue: Duncan Hall Room 1070, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, 77005.

Time: 4pm onwards

Date: July 10th

Presenter: Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, Ph.D., P.E. Dr. Athanasiou is the Karl F. Hasselmann professor of bioengineering and director of the musculoskeletal bioengineering laboratory at Rice University. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1989. He is a past-president of Biomedical Engineering Society, the professional society of bioengineering and biomedical engineering. He holds 28 patents and has published more than 200 scientific papers. He has also founded five companies based on technologies developed by his group.

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Title: A Pathway from Ph.D. to Consulting Practice

Venue: Room 187A Cullen, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, 77030.

Time: 4pm onwards

Date: July 11th

Presenter: Robert N. Cuyler, Ph.D., is the Senior Vice President of Diamond Healthcare, Inc., and serves as Director of the company's Consulting Practices Group. Diamond Healthcare, with home office in Richmond, Virginia and Western Division in Houston, Texas, provides behavioral health management and consulting services to more than 80 hospitals nationwide. Dr. Cuyler has successfully established psychiatric telemedicine programs in more than 20 rural hospitals and physician offices over the past 6 years.

Dr. Cuyler received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Louisiana State University and Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Menninger Foundation. He served as president of the Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare and previously was a member of the National Institute of Mental Health's National Mental Health Leadership Council. He has previously served on the Board of the Mental Health Association of Houston and Harris County and is a member of the Rice University Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and a judge at the annual Rice Business Plan Competition.

Dr. Cuyler brings 25 years experience in Healthcare practice, management, consulting, and entrepreneurship.