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California Precision Medicine Advisory Committee

Oct 09, 2017

California Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown has created the Governor's Advisory Committee on Precision Medicine and name some well-known figures to the 14-member panel. The committee will advise the governor's office on all matters related to precision medicine and make recommendations for statewide policy. Founding members are: 

  • Tomás Aragón, health officer of the City and County of San Francisco
  • Atul Butte, principal investigator of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine at UC San Francisco
  • John Carpten, chair of the Department of Translational Genomics at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
  • Jay Gellert, former president and CEO of Health Net
  • Kim Goodwin, author of "Designing for the Digital Age"
  • Stephen Lockhart, chief medical officer of Sutter Health
  • Kelsey Martin, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Mary Maxon, associate laboratory director for biosciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Jessica Mega, chief medical officer of Verily Life Sciences
  • Jill Mesirov, associate vice chancellor for computational health at UC San Diego School of Medicine
  • Frederick Meyers, associate dean for precision medicine at UC Davis Health
  • Arnold Milstein, director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford University
  • Hakan Sakul, vice president of diagnostics at Pfizer
  • Sue Siegel, CEO of GE Ventures. 
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