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CIO Thomson Guides NHLBI into Off-Site Computing
‘THE ELVIS OF PMI-CP’ Dishman Follows Instincts to Top PMI Cohort Post |
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If you’re straight with the universe, maybe the universe will be straight with you. How else to explain the arrival of Eric Dishman, director of the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program (PMI-CP), who owes his life and health to precision medicine and now wants to make the “Hail Mary pass” that saved him from kidney cancer common medical practice? Five years ago, Dishman, now 48, was in full kidney failure and facing a life of dialysis with limited chemo options for his spreading cancer; a scar on his right wrist testifies to the arteriovenous fistula physicians had prepared for accessing his bloodstream. But thanks to a whole genome sequence, the donation of a kidney from a coworker at his former employer, Intel, and tailored treatments to eradicate his cancer, he is a kind of poster child for President Obama’s vision of precision medicine. Getting his face on that poster involved following his nose; Dishman can trace the last 25 years of his career to a single decision to buy a book, Computers as Theatre, by Brenda Laurel. ![]() |