Ryan Spitler, Ph.D.

 

Event Information

Event Topic:
Precision Health-Understanding Lifelong Health Through Continuous Monitoring

Event Description:
Precision Health—Understanding Lifelong Health Through Continuous Monitoring Precision Health is an emerging area of medicine that utilizes longitudinal monitoring over the course of a person’s lifetime, with the potential to make a tremendous impact on one’s overall health. In contrast to Precision Medicine, the rapidly evolving field of Precision Health has expanded efforts in the prevention and early detection of disease via individualized risk profiles. Thus, implementing Precision Health strategies are believed to make a substantial impact both in the habits and health of a person over a long period of time, however, relies on large datasets and accurate models of human disease. In order to address this need, Stanford has launched the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center (PHIND). One major effort as part of this Center is the Project Baseline Health Study a collaboration between Duke, Stanford, and Verily to map human health through comprehensive monitoring of clinical, molecular, imaging, and sensor data as well as self-reported behavioral, psychological, environmental, as well as the integration of other health-related data. This talk will provide an overview of our current and future efforts as well as our progress on the Project Baseline Health Study.

Date/Time:
Date(s) - 11/05/19
8:30 am - 10:00 am

Event Location:
NOVA - 505 West Olive Ave, Sunnyvale- Suite 799:

Speaker Information

Event Speaker:
Ryan Spitler, Ph.D.

Event Speaker Title:
Deputy Director, Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center

Event Speaker Company:
Stanford University

Event Speaker Bio:

Dr. Spitler is the Deputy Director of the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center (PHIND) at Stanford University. He completed his Post Doctorial Research Fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine, conducting research in the field of Magnetogenetics for remote-controlled cellular reprogramming and developed smart MRI diagnostics tools for oncology. Additionally, Dr. Spitler completed executive training programs at Stanford school of business and Biodesign. He has also developed a number of new approaches working across several scientific areas ranging from medical devices to gene therapies. Prior to his position at Stanford, Dr. Spitler received his Ph.D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine. His research at the Beckman Laser Institute included developing and characterizing new nitric oxide-based drugs, as well as laser, and LED-based multimodal wound healing therapies. Dr. Spitler earned his B.S. in Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he worked in the areas of structural biology and biochemistry. Over the past two decades he has held a number of academic and industrial positions and has served as a board member and/or advisor for a number of Bay Area companies. Dr. Spitler is the recipient of the Stanford Radiological Sciences Laboratory Innovation Challenge Award, the Stanford Cancer Imaging Fellowship Training Award, the Biophotas Research Fellowship, and the Stanford Center for Biomedical Imaging Achievement Award. He has numerous scientific articles and books across many different disciplines.

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