Leroy Hood, MD, Kicks Off the 2025-26 Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series Posted: 2025-11-24 Source: UC Irvine School of Medicine News Type: Features & Briefs share UC Irvine School of Medicine Dean Michael J. Stamos with Leroy Hood, MD, and Shaista Malik, MD. The first lecture of the 2025-2026 UC Irvine School of Medicine Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series was held Oct.12-13 at the Sue Gross Auditorium in the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. Leroy Hood, MD, delivered a fascinating lecture to the community on precision health and how “Data-Driven Individual Health Can Profoundly Change Your Life, If You Let It!" The following day, Hood presented his scientific lecture titled “Data-Driven Individual Health and Peptide-Based Drugs Will Lead to a Healthcare that Optimizes Wellness, Prevents Disease and Catalyzes an N=1 Medicine.” View the video of Hood's community lecture > View photos from the two-day lecture series on Flickr > The annual Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series brings together influential leaders from healthcare and academia to share their insights, knowledge, experience and anecdotal stories with our faculty, staff, students and community members. For information on upcoming lectures, please visit the event site. Media Contacts Matt Miller Director mrmille2@uci.edu Michelle Heath Manager mstrombe@hs.uci.edu Shani Murray Senior Science Writer shanim@hs.uci.edu Communications & PR Office Related Faculty/Staff Michael J. Stamos, MD Dean — UC Irvine School of Medicine Professor — Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Surgery Shaista Malik, MD, PhD, MPH, FACC Professor — Mary & Steve Wen Cardiovascular Division, Medicine Medical Director — Integrative Cardiology and Cardiac Rehab