Speaker Profile
M.D., Ph.D., CEO/Founder, Phenome Health and Chief Strategy Officer/Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
Biography
Leroy (Lee) Hood, MD, PhD is the CEO/Founder of Phenome Health, a non-profit organization
developing the Human Phenome Initiative, based on the science of wellness, which will sequence the genes and generate the longitudinal phenomes of one million
people over 10 years. Phenome Health is well positioned to deliver a new paradigm in
healthcare based on prediction, prevention, personalization, and participation, and is intended
to address several healthcare challenges: significantly improve health outcomes; facilitate brain
health; increase cost effectiveness; reduce the chronic disease burden; promote healthy aging;
and enhance U.S. leadership in medical innovation. He has co-founded 17 biotech companies
including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, Rosetta and Arivale. His many national and international
awards include the Lasker Prize, the Kyoto Prize, and the National Medal of Science.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance & Alice Rathjen
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: David Bentley, Ilumina
- Learnings and Advancements of Population Studies (PANEL)
Chair: Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
- Andrea Ganna, FinnGen
- Robert Wildin, University of Vermont Health
- Alexander Charney, Mount Sinai - Precision Medicine in Understudied Populations
- Ryan Taft, Illumina
- Aimé LUMAKA, WALGEMED - Building Future Precision Care in Qatar
Chair: Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, Sidra Medicine
- Edison T. Liu, The Jackson Labs
- Challenges and Opportunities for National Precision Medicine Initiatives (PANEL)
Chair: Alessandro Riccombeni, Microsoft UK
- Catalina Lopez-Correa, Genome Canada
- Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Framework to Improve the Translation of Genomics into the Clinic (PANEL)
Chair: Kathleen Barnes, Tempus Labs
- Carlos Bustamante, Galatea Bio
- Ora Gordon, Providence
- Abasi Ene-Obong, 54gene - Identifying Relationships Between Disparate Data Sets to Monitor and Control Pathogen Outbreak (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Amy Kirby, CDC
- Smruthi Karthikeyan, Caltech - Increasing Diversity in Population Studies
- Manual Rivas - Global Biobank Engine, Stanford Rivas Lab
- The Missing Diversity in Human Epigenomic Studies
- Charles E. Breeze, National Cancer Institute
- The Transition from Genomics to Phenomics in Precision Population Health
- Lee Hood, Phenome Health
