Optimizing Health through Genomics Based Personalized Medicine PH172

<p style="text-align:center;">“The model of medicine where you base treatment of patients on statistics and epidemiology- what works for most people- we felt like we could do better as a society and as a group of physicians, and that’s what took us down the route of creating Wild Health and focusing on precision medicine.” - Dr. Matthew Dawson, Wild Health CEO</p> <p class="p1">Can human performance be optimized by tailoring medical care to each patient’s unique genetic makeup?</p> <p class="p1">Matt Dawson, MD and Mike Mallin, MD are the co-founders of <a href='https://wildhealth.com/'>Wild Health</a>, a healthcare clinic using a genomics-based personalized medicine approach.</p> <p class="p1">Dr. Dawson has been a life-long athlete focused on optimizing performance.  He received scholarships to play two sports in college even with self-professed "minimal talent" because of his voracious reading and implementation of any fitness or nutritional techniques that would give him an edge.  He continued that obsession into medical school at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and as a physician he has won numerous national awards for education, innovation, and leadership.</p> <p class="p1">Dr. Mallin has been in medical practice for 10 years, but obsessed with health, physical performance, and longevity his entire life. He attended the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and currently practices in Bend, Oregon. Dr. Mallin is board certified in emergency medicine and has completed a fellowship in point-of-care ultrasound.</p> <p class="p1">Dr. Dawson and Dr. Mallin met during their Emergency Medicine residency in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they bonded over their life-long passion for optimizing performance.  Throughout their residency, they continuously self-experimented with nutrition, fitness, and recovery techniques to give themselves a competitive edge.</p> <p class="p1">Together they have gone on to grow several businesses, create apps, and author two textbooks.  Most recently t