The Atlantic Meets The Pacific (Audio‪)‬ UCTV

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 Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25787]

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 Pacific" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25871]

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] [Show ID: 25785]

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]

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] [Show ID: 25788]

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 Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25786]