Editorial

Framingham, Massachusetts; 1948.

In 1948, the U.S. Congress commissioned this city, chosen for its representativeness of the overall American population, to conduct a follow-up study on a cohort of 5,209 adult subjects. Prior to this study, little or nothing was known about the epidemiology of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. This study turned the very notion of risk factors on its head, and what we now know about the effects of diet, physical exercise or antiaggregant drugs on heart disease stems from this longitudinal study, which is still ongoing and now concerns the third generation of subjects...

Prevention has finally become a major medical cause, and concerns both communicable, infectious diseases, as well as non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

Prevention concerns populations, and it is those populations that prevention campaigns are aimed at. Because prevention studies accumulate a huge amount of data, it is then possible to run artificial intelligence tools and use these global data to deduce individual risk factors. The focus then shifts from prevention to prediction.

The 2024 Harvey Cushing Symposium, entitled "From prevention to prediction: algorithms for better health", aims to delve into this universe and its components. From cardiovascular and metabolic diseases to cancer, from health check-ups to ageing detection, from tobacco control to vaccination, from algorithms to digital twins, we now have powerful tools to live better, longer, and healthier. It is this personalized medicine, tailored to each of us, that this symposium will explore, drawing on French and American insights thanks to the participation of the American Universities of Columbia Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine.

Gérard Friedlander

Organizing committee

Prof. Gérard Friedlander

Former Dean of Paris Descartes School of Medicine, Medical Executive Director of American Hospital of Paris

Prof. Arnold Munnich

Pediatrician, geneticist and president of the Imagine Foundation

Prof. Benoît Gallix

Full Professor, American Hospital of Paris

Dr. Samuel H. Selesnick MD FACS

Senior US Medical Counselor of the American Hospital of Paris, Professor and Vice Chair – Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Editor-in-Chief - The Laryngoscope, General Secretary – The International Society for Otology – the Politzer Society, Attending – Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Scientific Committee

Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences for Columbia University and the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor in the Faculty of the University
Dr. Linda Fried, Dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Senior Vice President of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, DeLamar Professor of Public Health
Pr Benoît Gallix, Full Professor, American Hospital of Paris
Dr. Riadh Caïd Essebsi, Cardiologist, President of the Medical Board of the American Hospital of Paris
Prof. Loïc Josseran, Professor in Public Health at Raymond Poincaré Hospital (Garches), Dean of Simone Veil Medical College at the University Paris Saclay – Campus UVSQ

Speakers

Prof. Philippe Amouyel

MD/PhD, Professor of Public Health at Lille University Hospital and CEO of the Fondation Alzheimer

Prof. Katrina Armstrong

Chief Executive Officer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Columbia University; Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Dr. Louis J Aronne

MD, FACP, FTOS, DABOM Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research, Weill-Cornell Medical College

Prof. Robert Barouki

Director, Inserm Institute of Public Health

Mrs. Denise Campbell Bauer

Ambassador to the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco (TBC)

Prof. John Beard

Irene Diamond Professor and Director, International Longevity Center - USA, Columbia University

Prof. Daniel Benamouzig

CNRS Research Professor in Sociology, Holder of the Chair "Health" at Sciences Po

Dr. Riadh Caïd Essebsi

Cardiologist, President of the Medical Board at the American Hospital of Paris

Dr. Suzette Delaloge

Medical oncologist, breast cancer specialist, head of the personalized cancer prevention “ Interception” programme at Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Dr. Marie-Josée Duran

PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Fondation Pour l’Audition

Prof. Alain Fischer

Emeritus professor at Collège de France (Claude Bernard chair)

Prof. Bernard Fraysse

Professor Emeritus, Past President of International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies (IFOS)

Prof. Linda Fried

Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health

Prof. Gérard Friedlander

Executive Medical Director, American Hospital of Paris

Prof. Benoît Gallix

Full Professor, American Hospital of Paris

Alexandre Guenoun

Founder and CEO of KIRO

Prof. Loïc Josseran

Professor in Public Health at Raymond Poincaré Hospital (Garches), Dean of Simone Veil Medical College at the University Paris Saclay – Campus UVSQ

Prof. Yoon Kang

Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Professor of Medical Education, Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, Weill Cornell Medicine

Prof. Alexandre Loupy

Professor of Nephrology and Epidemiology at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital - Paris Cité University, Director of the Inserm Translational Research Center on Organ Transplantation in Paris.