Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Interim Director at UCSF BCSHI and Professor, UCSF
Biography
Marina Sirota is a Professor and Interim Director of UCSF’s Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. Previously, she served as a Senior Research Scientist at Pfizer, focusing on precision medicine. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University.
With 20 years of experience and over 170 publications, Dr. Sirota develops computational integrative methods for diagnostics and therapeutics, specializing in women’s health. Her laboratory is funded by the NIA, NLM, NIAMS, Pfizer, and the March of Dimes.
A 2017 AMIA Young Investigator Award recipient, she leads the UCSF March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center and co-directs ENACT, a precision medicine center for endometriosis. Dr. Sirota also founded UCSF’s AI4ALL program, which introduces high school girls to the applications of AI and machine learning in biomedicine.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Burns Blaxall
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Euan Ashley, Stanford
• Jeffrey R. Balser, Vanderbilt
• Howard J. Jacob, Abbvie
Precision Medicine at Scale: Lessons from Vanderbilt
• Jeffrey R. Balser, Vanderbilt
From First Patient to a Million Genomes
• Chair: Howard J. Jacob, Abbvie
• Jeffrey R. Balser, Vanderbilt
• Euan Ashley, Stanford
Keynote: AI and Data-Driven Individual Health- Optimizing Wellness, Preventing Disease and Empowering Precision Medicine
• Lee Hood, Phenome Health
Keys to Successful Implementation of a Precision Medicine Program
• Chair: Howard McLeod, GeneDx
• Kevan Simms, Ochsner Health
• David Glazer, Verily
• Mark Atalla, HHS
• Susanne Munksted, Diaceutics
Precision Cardiology at Scale: Implementing Genomics Beyond Oncology
• Chair: Damon Hostin, Illumina
• David E. Lanfear, Henry Ford Health
• onit Yarden, NIH/NHLBI
Precision Medicine at Scale: Lessons from a Statewide Genomic Initiative
• Chair: Premal Shah, MyOme
• Niall Lennon, Broad Clinical Labs
• Oliver Hampton, Southern Research
Integrating Multi-Modal Biology into Precision Care Pathways: A Systems Framework for Scalable Implementation
• K V Venkatesh, IIT Mumbai
From Multi-Omics to Clinical Action: Making It Work at UCSF
• Marina Sirota, UCSF
From $/Gb to Outcomes: Simplifying Genomics for Health Systems
• Jacob Thaysen, Illumina
Achieving Comprehensive Precision Medicine
• Chair: Burns Blaxall
• Trish Brown, GeneDx
• Eric Green, Illumin
• Daryl Pritchard, Personalized Medicine Coalition
• Ora Gordon, Providence Health
• Sarah Hersey, BMS
