Professor of Medicine and Engineering and Founding Director and CEO of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine at the University of Southern California and author of several books including “The End of Illness, A Short Guide to a Long Life” and “The Lucky Years;How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health”
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