Edward A. Tenthoff Managing Director, Senior Biotechnology Research Analyst, Piper Sandler and Companies CRISPR gene editing technology develops therapeutics and interventions in targeted ways to cure diseases, such as beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease, that can lead to profound, durable results that change people’s lives.
About 60% of our health outcomes are based on the choices we make each and every day – about what we eat and how we exercise; 20% on the health care we’ve received; and 20% on our DNA. We really do have an opportunity to change our health outcomes by how we handle our own bodies and how we treat our own cells.
Jo Ann Jenkins Chief Executive Officer, AARP
I don’t believe that wellness is just about the body. It’s about the mind and the soul as well. You need to examine the entire human being and what makes it unique. You need to look at every aspect of humanity to help us be better, healthier people and to create better societies.
Meredith Vieira Emmy® Award-Winning Host, Executive Producer and Anchor; Founder and CEO, Meredith Vieira Productions
#UNITETOPREVENT CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS - DAY 2 MIND, BODY & SOUL Part III: Maintaining a Healthy Mind
Richard J. Davidson, PhD Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Founder and Director, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison Empathy is a precursor to compassion. But to transform empathy into something constructive, we need compassion. Compassion is nourishing, in that you experience a positive connection with another person, and a sense of joy that you’re helping that person.
Compassion is clearly a natural human impulse. It’s not a skill that we have to learn anew. We are born with it, but where the training helps is to make it more intentional – and open it up so that our empathy isn’t confined to a small circle of people, but that it’s broader so that we can reach out to the world.
Thupten Jinpa, PhD President, Compassion Institute
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