Bill McKeon

So Baylor College of Medicine had their own plan.

So did MD Anderson, UT, A&M.

And it was a way to really incubate that centrally.

And so we created an innovation institute.

Now we put about 250 companies through that each year, two thirds of those companies from around the world.

So that was a really important start of showing that collaboratively we could do things that really lifted all ships.

And so now it's the largest in the country and it's only four or five years old.

Clinical research was another huge opportunity.

We conduct more clinical trials on this campus than anywhere in the United States, yet we do it independently.

TMC has 32 IRBs or Institutional Review Boards that help each institution conduct independent clinical research trials.

And so now we're investing in putting artificial intelligence into each of those institutions so we have a common tool set

to actually look at patients across the 10 million patients rather than independently by each institution.

Health data was huge, but that was a huge opportunity for us to really think about how do we really pull together the data and standardize it across the entire platform, across the entire medical center, and really look at it.

And it became kind of the true north for us during the COVID pandemic.

So health data is a really important opportunity.

It's becoming a real magnet for industry to work side by side with our leaders.

Sure.

I think Robert Frost said it best when two roads diverged in the wood and I took the one less traveled.

and it has made all the difference.

That certainly has been the case in my life.