2010 Summit to focus on developing roadmap for personalized health care

The Forum on Personalized Health Care today announced its third annual National Summit on Personalized Health Care, "Creating the Roadmap for Personalized Health Care." The 2010 Summit will give participants the singular opportunity to collaborate in creating a core short- and long-range roadmap to align, coordinate and accelerate delivery of personalized health care technologies and practices. The event will be held October 3-5, 2010 at Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah.

“I am confident that at the 2010 Summit, participants will embark on one of the great collaborative adventures of their lives.”

Personalized health care encompasses the transformative vision of breakthrough improvements in the cost and effectiveness of patient care through the practical application of sophisticated scientific research, especially from advanced systems biology; leading diagnostic and therapeutic technologies; proactive new approaches to health care delivery; and greater patient engagement.

The Third Annual Summit, hosted by Utah Governor Gary Herbert, will feature presentations, roundtables, and keynote addresses from health care luminaries in industry, government and higher education. Further details regarding the agenda will be announced in September. The Forum consists of top leaders from throughout the world, coming together to chart an actionable course for progress in personalized health care, under the leadership of the Forum's Board of Directors.

The inaugural Summit was held in 2008, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The summit produced broad-based consensus and interdisciplinary working teams and initiatives to make personalized healthcare a reality in clinical practice. This event brought together 150 top leaders - health care providers, insurers, researchers, investors, technology entrepreneurs, policymakers and regulators - to develop strategic action plans for moving personalized health care into the mainstream of the U.S. health care system.

The 2009 Summit announced the creation of the Forum on Personalized Health Care (PHC), and announced the formation of its world-class Board of Directors, including: Clayton Christensen, prominent author and strategy professor at Harvard Business School; Leroy (Lee) Hood, CEO of the Institute for Systems Biology; Michael O. Leavitt, chairman Leavitt Partners (former Utah Governor and HHS Secretary); Clay Marsh, executive director of the Center for Personalized Medicine at Ohio State University; Ralph Snyderman, chairman of Proventys and chancellor emeritus at Duke University; and Kimball Thomson, executive director of the Forum on Personalized Health Care.

This year's Summit will build on the foundation established by the first two events, taking the next step to formalize a roadmap for aligning and coordinating the essential, interrelated components of practical personalized health care delivery. At the 2010 Summit, three new board members will be introduced: Mara Aspinall, CEO of On-Q-ity; Risa Stack, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; and Eric Topol, executive director of the Scripps Institute.

The roadmap will be a living document that resides online and directs the efforts of the Forum on Personalized Health Care, its members and strategic partners going forward. The roadmap will guide the organization's efforts to develop effective strategies to capitalize on the disruptive innovation characteristics of personalized health care, and to identify methods and incentives that enable providers and payers to optimize outcomes on both individual and population bases.

"The Forum on Personalized Health Care is committed to changing the way medical care is perceived and executed so we can achieve early, targeted, and effective diagnosis and treatment," said Kimball Thomson, executive director of the Forum on Personalized Health Care. "We've reached a critical juncture within the health care sector, and the creation and implementation of the Roadmap for Personalized Health Care will improve outcomes and patient care for individuals and families throughout the world."

"With the development of this core roadmap, the Forum will be poised to help shape the direction of the future of health care nationally and globally with truly disruptive and transformative approaches," said Forum board member Clayton Christensen, professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. "I am confident that at the 2010 Summit, participants will embark on one of the great collaborative adventures of their lives."