Our co-founder, Jamie Heywood, recently traveled to San Diego to receive the
Drug Information Association’s (DIA) 2014
President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Health. With the award in his hand and speaking to everyone who was attending the event, he accepted it on behalf of the quarter million PatientsLikeMe members (this is for all of you!).
During the DIA’s 50
th annual meeting, Jamie gave the keynote address, and he touched upon his personal journey in the world of healthcare and patient-reported data. He spoke about his brother, Stephen Heywood, who passed away from ALS in 2006, and how Stephen inspired the creation of the
ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALSTDI) and PatientsLikeMe. Jamie also shared about “healthspan” and the potential that personal health data has to change the way we look at treatments and research. But that’s not all – watch the video below to hear everything Jamie said.
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