Thursday, January 13, 2022

Hearings on the Hill: House, New Med Tech (Dec 8), Senate, Covid Omicron (Jan 11). Bonus: Amy Abernethy Futurism.

Two interesting Congressional hearings in the past weeks.

HOUSE: FUTURE OF BIOMEDICINE

On December 8, 2021, House Energy & Commerce held a 3.5 hour hearing on "Future of Biomedicine: Translating Biomedical Research into Personalized Health Care."   Speakers including Amy Abernethy (Verily), Atul Butte (UCSF), Leroy Hood (Institute for Systems Biology), Lloyd Minor (Dean, Stanford).   

  • Find the Congressional website here.
    • This includes links to streaming video plus links to PDF prepared testimony.
    • Bonus!  I provide an auto-transcript of the hearing.  Here.  58 pp.
    • Bonus!  I provide the PDFs in one zip file here.

FUTURISM WITH AMY ABERNETHY

If you're a fan of Amy Abernethy, see a 26 minute interview with her, January 13, 2022, at Health Care Blog, link to video here.  

Title is: Futurecasting with Amy Abernethy: Verily, Real-World Data, Clinical Trials & Health Policy in 2022.

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SENATE: COVID 2022 OMICRON

See the website for the Senate HELP committee hearings on January 11, 2022, on the Administration's response to COVID Omicron.  Speaking? The usual top level leadership, Rochelle Walensky of CDC, Anthony Fauci of NIH, Janet Woodcock of FDA, Dawn O'Connell (Assistant Secretary, HHS). 

  • Find the Congressional website here.
    • This includes links to streaming video plus links to PDF prepared testimony.
    • Find an autotrascript of the four hour hearing here.  66p.
    • Find a zip file of the 4 prepared PDFs here.
    • See coverage of the sometimes fiery hearing at Bloomberg here.


Amy Abernethy at House Hearing, 12/2021


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Some crude page numbers for topics in Dec 8 hearing, here.

Nerd note.  I rarely see the term PHENOME, used several times by Dr. Hood.  However, it appears in a new JAMA headline in Bastarache et al. here.  JAMA Cardiol headlined the term in an A-Fib and genetics article in 2019, Salem et al., here.

Phenome use frequency at PubMed. 2021 usage count was #917.  Shown.  Used as title word, #60 times.