Occupation: Surgeon Birth: 1952
It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drug….
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself..
Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own ….
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body..
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster..
Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and au….
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is….
I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world..
I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day..
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at t….
I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave beh….
I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cel….
I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I lo….
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the gre….
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease..
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient..
I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do..
You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it..