The President’s Precision Medicine Initiative was launched earlier this year to enable a new era of medicine through research and technology that empowers patients, researchers, and providers to work together toward development of individualized treatments. Nine individuals will be honored at the event, including ACT | The App Association member Amy Gleason of CareSync. Learn more about her story here.
The Champions of Change program will feature remarks by Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Senior Advisor to the President Brian Deese, and Director of National Institutes of Health Francis Collins. The event will be live streamed on the White House Website here at 2 p.m. ET. Follow the conversation at #WHChamps.