Dr. Craig Woods was invited to moderate the “Whole Health Revolution” panel at the 2025 AZAdvances Health Innovation Summit, held on October 16, 2025 at the ILUME Innovation Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The panelists, pictured from left to right, were:
- Craig Woods DVM, MS, MBA: One Medicine Group, LLC and Woods Consulting, LLC (Animal Health Consultants)
- Stephen Albert Johnston, PhD, Founding CEO, Calviri, Inc.
- David Engelthaler, PhD: Executive Director, Health Observatory, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Director and Professor at TGen North
- Harris Khakwani MD: PDS Medical Group
Topics centered on the contemporary convergence of biology, engineering, computational sciences, and data connectivity and how this is shifting healthcare from a reactive model of treating diseases, to a proactive model for early detection or disease prevention. Dr. Craig Woods (far left) introduced the session by discussing how the exponential decrease in cost of multi-omics has recently yielded massive amounts of data, and combined with the parallel increase in compute power (peta- to exaFLOP power) is facilitating the analysis of these data to elucidate new insight into systems level biology. Drs. Woods also shared the importance of leveraging comparative medicine and veterinary clinical studies to advance human and veterinary healthcare in parallel.
Dr. Johnston discussed how Calviri, Inc. has developed a novel peptide microarrays for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in canine patients as a bridge to human health. Dr. Engelthaler discussed ASU Health Observatory’s work to integrate and analyze large datasets to improve the human and animal health. Closing the session was Dr. Khakwani, a physician, discussed how PDS Health is on the forefront of integrating health data from dental medicine with primary medical care and the benefits derived from information exchange between these professions.