All-Staff Meeting: Towards Precision Medicine

When:
September 13, 2018 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
2018-09-13T11:00:00-07:00
2018-09-13T12:00:00-07:00
Where:
Oberndorf Family Auditorium, STLC111, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning
376 Lomita Dr
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
Contact:
Danielle Hendrickson
All-Staff Meeting: Towards Precision Medicine @ Oberndorf Family Auditorium, STLC111, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning | Stanford | California | United States

Presenter: Euan Ashley

Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Data Science, and, by courtesy, Pathology

Euan Ashley, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Data Science at Stanford University. His lab is focused on the science of precision medicine. In 2010, he led the team that carried out the first clinical interpretation of a human genome. This study, the focus of over 300 news stories, became one of the most cited articles in clinical medicine that year and was later featured in the Genome Exhibition at the Smithsonian in D.C. Today, Dr. Ashley directs the Clinical Genomics Program at Stanford hospitals and is founding director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease. In 2013, he was recognized by the Obama White House for his contributions to personalized medicine. He is recipient of the National Innovation Award from the American Heart Association as well as an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. He is principal investigator of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study, launched in collaboration with Apple in 2015. In 2016, he was part of the winning team of the $75m One Brave Idea competition funded by Google, the AHA and Astra Zeneca. He is founder of two companies: Personalis, Inc. and DeepCell, Inc.

Please join us for the final 2018 Department of Medicine All-Staff Meeting.

Light lunch will be served after the presentation in the SAPP outdoor courtyard.

Networking 12-1 p.m.

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