Clifton Leaf, the author of “The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer and How to Win It,” talks with The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons about the future of cancer research as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25782]

Roni Zeiger, the CEO of Smart Patients and former Chief Health Strategist at Google, talks about the future for cancer patients with James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic, as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 24908]

Stanford Professor Russ Altman, Microsoft Research Scientist Eric Horvitz and Steve Miller, the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Express Scripts join The Atlantic’s Megan Garber for a discussion on using big data to find treatments and cures for disease. This program is presented as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25776]

Ramesh Rao, the director of the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego, reveals how he can measure his personal contentment with “The Bliss Buzzer,” a tool that monitors his heart rate and alerts him when he is in a relaxed state. Rao explains that the device can be used to determine what causes personal bliss, such as chocolate, in this conversation with The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San...

Roni Zeiger, the CEO of Smart Patients and former Chief Health Strategist at Google, talks about the future for cancer patients with James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic, as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 24908]

Stanford Professor Russ Altman, Microsoft Research Scientist Eric Horvitz and Steve Miller, the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Express Scripts join The Atlantic’s Megan Garber for a discussion on using big data to find treatments and cures for disease. This program is presented as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25776]

Bioengineering experts Todd Coleman, Ian Shakil, Mick Ebeling and Halle Tecco talk with The Atlantic’s Megan Garber about the future of medical information technology as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25778]

Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of “The Emperor of All Maladies” tells The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons about what it’s like to take his best-selling book on the history of cancer to television in this interview presented by The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference in La Jolla, California. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25779]

Scott Lippman, the director of the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego joins David Sadava of City of Hope Medical Center, Christopher Slapak of Imclone Systems, Greg Sorensen of Siemens Healthcare North America and Kristiina Vuori, President of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in assessing the latest innovations in cancer care. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The...

Healthcare executives Pat Christen, Naser Partovi, Jordan Shlain and Peter Yu join The Atlantic’s Megan Garber to explain how patients with chronic illnesses are affected by new medical technologies. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets The Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25781]

Clifton Leaf, the author of “The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer and How to Win It,” talks with The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons about the future of cancer research as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25782]

Eric Topol, the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Professor of Genomics at The Scripps Research Institute, talks about how digital technology can reduce healthcare costs in this interview with Corby Kummer, Senior Editor of The Atlantic as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25783]

Chris Anderson, the former Editor-in-Chief of Wired and now CEO of 3-D Robotics, talks with The Atlantic’s James Fallows about the role of drones for civilian uses. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 25784]

Jamie Alexandre of the Foundation for Learning Equality, UC San Diego political scientist Clark Gibson and Peggy Johnson of Qualcomm share their latest work in using technology to improve lives around the world in this talk with The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 25785]

Laurie Garrett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, shares her concerns about emerging public health threats, ranging from gain of function research to the effects of climate change on the human microbiome, in an interview with The Atlantic’s Corby Kummer. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public...

Taking responsibility for one’s body is the common theme among three visionaries in personal health. Larry Smarr of Calit2 joins Deborah Szekely, the co-founder of the highly acclaimed Rancho La Puerta wellness center and Kunal Sarkar, the CEO of the brain-trainer Lumosity for an invigorating conversation with The Atlantic’s Megan Garber and Corby Kummer. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic...

UC San Diego neuroscientists Ralph Greenspan and Nicholas Spitzer join Kris Famm of GlaxoSmithKline and James Fallows of The Atlantic for a look into the future of brain research. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 25788]

Jacopo Annese, a neuroanatomist and director of the Brain Observatory at UC San Diego, takes a humanistic approach to studying brains by getting to know donors while they are living in order to understand posthumously how their brain structure affected their personalities, memories and health. Annese explains his research to The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein, as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The...

Deepak Chopra, best-selling author and founder of The Chopra Foundation taps into what makes life worth living with The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons as part of The Atlantic Meets the Pacific 2013 conference presented by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25777]

The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons leads a fascinating discussion on the barriers to medical progress with Greg Lucier, CEO of Life Technologies; Debi Brooks, co-founder and executive vice chairman of the Michael J. Fox Foundation and Santosh Kesari, a neuro-oncologist at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24364]

Larry Smarr, recently featured in The Atlantic’s “The Measured Man,”talks with the author Mark Bowden about the drive to understand everything about his own body and how that kind of knowledge will become standard in the future. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 23984]

Gary Marcus, the director of the NYU Center for Language and Music and author of “Guitar Zero,” talks about learning to play the guitar at 40 in this interview with Atlantic senior editor Alexis Madrigal. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 24362]

Jessica Jackley describes her path to success as the co-founder and CEO of ProFounder, a pioneering crowd-funding platform for budding entrepreneurs that provides tools to access start-up capital. She also co-founded Kiva, the world's first peer-to-peer microlending website, as she recalls in this interview with Alexis Madrigal, Senior Editor of The Atlantic. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24354]

Ben Rattray, founder of Change.org, describes to the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein how powerful this crowd-sourcing platform has become as millions of people advance local and global change through online petitions. Rattray points to the selection of Candy Crowley and Martha Raddatz to run the presidential and vice presidential debates as an example of its success, noting that 180,000 people used the site to campaign for female moderators. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific"...