The White House will honor Menlo Park community member Atul Butte in Washington D.C. on Thursday for championing change that improves the world.
Butte is one of thirteen people who will be publicly recognized for using scientific data to promote and accelerate positive societal progress.
Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine at Stanford who works at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. He is also the Division Chief of Systems Medicine in the Pediatrics Department.
In his lab on campus, he uses computing tools to translate trillions of molecular, clinical and epidemiological data points into digestible insights. Butte earned his degrees at MIT and Harvard Medical School, doing his fellowship in the Pediatric Endocrinology Department of the Boston Children’s Hospital. He also did his residency there, after earning his M.D. and M.S. at Brown University’s School of Medicine where he focused on computer science. He also worked at Apple and Microsoft as a software engineer.
The Obama administration will be publicly praising him as part of the “White House Champions of Change” program , which spotlights people, business, and organizations who have extraordinarily impacted global society in a positive way. Notably, Butte has delivered hundreds of presentations about personalized medicine and biomedical informatics, including 20 at National Institutes of Health meetings, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He will be recognized at 1 p.m. Eastern Time on June 20, 2013, according to a White House Spokesperson. To watch the event remotely, visit whitehoues.gov/live.
To hear him talk about his work, watch the video of his TedMed 2012 talk that is embedded in this article.
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