Building a Research Foundation for 21st Century Medicine Executive Summary In his State of the Union Address on January 20, 2015, President Obama announced his intention to launch a Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) “to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, and to give all of us […]

The Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program


By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Might this be one of Barack Obama’s multiple ‘Guttenberg moments’? Well as with everything else this President does from health reform to executive actions on immigration the answer is more likely to be filtered through an ideological prism vs. one of either substance or science. […]

Precision Medicine: The President Speaks


We’ll feature a ‘best of the web’ in precision, personalized or ‘genome informed‘ medicine here, sourced from best in class conferences worldwide. This timely clip sourced from the Personalized Medicine World Conference held in Silicon Valley from January 26th-28th, 2015 – complete conference details here.

Pravene Nath, MD Chief Information Officer, @StanfordHealth