Speaker Profile
M.D., Operating Partner, Khosla Ventures
Biography
Hal Paz is an operating partner at Khosla Ventures and has served as a senior
executive and board member across healthcare providers, payers, and medical
technology companies. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Medical Officer of CVS Health/Aetna; Chancellor for Health Affairs and CEO of The
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center; and CEO of Penn State Health and
Stony Brook University Medicine.
Dr. Paz currently serves on the boards of Envision Healthcare and Research!America
and previously served on the boards of Select Medical, USPI, Vyteris, the AAMC and
seven health systems. He advises Curai Health and has previously advised Johnson &
Johnson and USPI. He has also served on committees of the National Academy of
Medicine and the National Academies.
A former medical school dean, at Robert Wood Johnson and Penn State, and
physician–scientist, Dr. Paz has conducted research in sepsis, ARDS, and medical
devices and has authored more than 100 publications. He earned his BA and MD from
the University of Rochester and an MS in Life Science Engineering from Tufts
University, completed residency training at Northwestern University, and completed
fellowships at Johns Hopkins University in pulmonary and critical care medicine and
environmental health sciences.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Ed Kim, City of Hope
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute / FinnGen
• Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
The Data Factory: Integrating Millions of Genomes for Variant Interpretation
• Chair: Stephen Montgomery, Stanford University
• Carlos Bustamante, University of Oklahoma
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
• Manuel Rivas, Stanford University
• Mark McCarthy, Genentech
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
Keynote: Biobanks and the Road Ahead in Human Genetics
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
Beyond the Read: Long-Read Sequencing in Clinical Variant Pipeline
• Chair: Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
• Hanlee Ji, Stanford
• Barrett Bready, Nabsys
DNA to Drug, Label & Coverage
• Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Edward Kim, City of Hope
• Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
• Wei Zhou, Broad Institute
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
Fireside Chat
• Lauren Silvis, Tempus
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
25+ Years of the Human Genome: From Bench to Bedside to Beyond
• Chair: Ralph Snyderman, Duke University
• Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute
• Brook Byers, KPCB
• Lee Hood, Phenome Health
AI & Evolution for Predicting Human Disease Genes
• Chair: Yuval Tabach, Hebrew University
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
• Saša Jenko, European Commission
