Stephen Spielberg: Cultural Gaps in Personalized Health
The Personalized Health Project - UCSF Mission Bay
Personalized Health Project: An Action Summit for Life Science Leaders

The Personalized Health Project and video was sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.


Welcome and Opening Remarks by David Ewing Duncan; introduction of co-organizers and the co-authors of the PHP study.

Lesa Mitchell, VP of Advancing Innovation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Regis Kelly, PhD, Executive Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco

Session I: The Gaps

An overview of eleven "gaps" between discovery and application in personalized health. Presented by Frank Douglas, MD, PhD, co-author of the PHP study; President and CEO, Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron, Ohio; founder of MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation

Cultural: Stephen Spielberg, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Personalized Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City; former Dean, Dartmouth Medical School
Clinical: Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Chair and Director, Genomic Medical Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Government and Law: Edward Abrahams, PhD, President, Personalized Medicine Coalition
Commercial: Ryan Phelan, CEO and Founder, DNA Direct

"Funding the Entrepreneurs": Brook Byers, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers

Arts and Science Offering: Film clips from award-winning 2011 Sundance Documentary "Connected" presented by Director Tiffany Shlain (also founder of The Webby Awards.) She will be present for questions at break.