Leroy Hood Quotes

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

~ Leroy Hood

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

~ Leroy Hood

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

~ Leroy Hood

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

~ Leroy Hood

Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.

~ Leroy Hood

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

~ Leroy Hood

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

~ Leroy Hood