Posit Science Dean Ornish, who first established that coronary artery disease could be reversed with lifestyle changes alone, author of the few bestseller books on the subject of healthy lifestyle choices Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University, 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program Ardem Patapoutian, Nobel Prize laureate known for his work in characterizing the PIEZO1, PIEZO2, and TRPM8 receptors William W. Parmley – Former Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and General Authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stanley Prusiner – Nobel laureate in Medicine (1997), discovered and described prions Shuvo Roy, Inventor of artificial kidney William Seeley, alumni, neurology professor at UCSFv, where he leads the Selective Vulnerability Research Lab. He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. Steve Schroeder – Former CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Michelle Tam, creator of Nom Nom Paleo and James Beard Foundation Award nominated cookbook author, blogger, and food writer Julie Theriot, microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and heads the Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program Thea Tlsty, professor of pathology, known for her research in cancer biology Kay Tye – neuroscientist Harold Varmus – Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989), worked with J. Michael Bishop to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. Also served as director of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton Administration, as president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 2000 to 2010, and currently as the director of the National Cancer Institute. Paul Volberding, whose pioneering work in the early days of the AIDS pandemic was noted in Randy Shilts' book And the Band Played On Robert M. Wachter, a prominent expert in patient safety, who coined the term hospitalist and is considered the academic leader of the field of hospital medicine. Wachter is now chair of UCSF's Department of Medicine. Peter Walter molecular biologist and biochemist, Shaw Prize (2014) and Lasker Award (2014) Ted Wong – United States Army Major General, Chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps (2011–2014) Ron Vale molecular motors particularly on kinesin and dynein, he has received the Lasker Award (2012) and the Shaw Prize (2017)- Pablo DT Valenzuela – co-founder of the American biotech company Chiron Corporation, the first Chilean biotech company Bios Chile, and of Fundacion Ciencia para la