Dr. Stanford began his career as a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Texas Instruments in 1982, while also pursuing his interest in aviation as a flight instructor and commercial pilot. In 1991, he pivoted into biomedical science and subsequently completed the combined MD/PhD physician-scientist training program at UCLA in 1998 and an internal medicine residency at UCLA in 2001. He is board certified in internal medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A pioneer in the field of hospital medicine, in 2002, Dr. Stanford founded and led a 25-physician group of private practice hospitalists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. After an extensive clinical career as the attending-of-record for over 100,000 patient encounters, he was elected by his peers at Cedars-Sinai to be Clinical Chief of General Internal Medicine — serving in this capacity from 2017 to 2018. Inspired by recent advancements in biomedical science and medicine, Dr. Stanford completed professional certification through Stanford University’s Department of Genetics and Genomics in 2018, further advancing his role as a true physician-scientist. He has been providing consultation in genomic and precision medicine to patients and their primary care providers for the past 3 years through Beverly Hills Institute for Precision Medicine. Regarded as a thought-leader in what is considered the future of medicine, Dr. Stanford is invited to speak across the globe on the implementation and impact of precision medicine in primary care. He is a member of the Personalized Medicine Coalition and is co-authoring a textbook on precision medicine for Elsevier Publishing.