2016 Prospectus SPS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY 2016
“
The messages of MedX and Precision
Medicine lead to the same thing:
Empowered patients taking part in
improving their health, and the notion that
innovation can come from anywhere,
not just white lab coated researchers.
“
Howard Look, White House Precision
Medicine Champion of Change & Founder/
CEO of Tidepool
On February 25th, eight Stanford Medicine X community
members were amongst the small group of thought leaders
personally invited by the White House to participate in President
Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Summit. The
Medicine X community was represented at the event by a diverse
contingent of patients, providers, designers, technologists, and
researchers, thereby exemplifying the
Medicine X Everyone Included model.
Executive Director Dr. Larry Chu, Program Executive Board
members Hugo Campos and Nick Dawson, ePatients Matthew
Might, Noga Leviner, Dana Lewis, and Donna Cryer, and longtime
friends and presenters Howard Look and Claudia
Williams were among those present.
During the PMI Summit, President Barack Obama joined
Medicine X community member and CEO of Tidepool Howard
Look onstage to contribute to the
discussion about the initiative and its future. The President
took a strong stance and stated that the goal of the Precision
Medicine initiative is to break down some of the silos and
institutional barriers that have been preventing us from making
big leaps in health care. He also stated that individual patients
should own their data, and that we can all work together to
address privacy issues and concerns. His comments resonated
deeply throughout the Medicine X community, which is built
upon on the Everyone Included framework of co-creation and
leadership.
President Obama went on to reaffirm that the principles behind
Everyone Included are at the heart of this initiative and
essential to its success by stating that he wants “all the various
players in the health care system [to be] invested in building this
broader capacity” as the Precision Medicine Initiative moves
forward to accomplish the goals laid out during the Summit.
This commitment to Everyone Included was exemplified by the
White House’s decision to bring a diverse group of stakeholders
together under the same roof to discuss this extraordinarily
exciting time in health care and figure out how we can work
towards a future where, as President Obama said during his final
remarks, generations will “live healthier lives in ways that we
could not imagine.”
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