STAT Breakthrough Summit 2023
May 3Tom and Emily Whitehead will kick off the 2023 STAT Breakthrough Summit on Wednesday, May 3 with a featured session titled "Living With a Cure".
Session Participants:
Emily Whitehead, Co-founder of the Emily Whitehead Foundation
Tom Whitehead, President & Co-founder, Emily Whitehead Foundation
Matthew Herper, Senior Writer, Medicine; Editorial Director of Events, STAT (moderator)
Session Summary:
A decade ago, Emily Whitehead was the world’s first pediatric CAR-T patient. Now, she is a healthy teenager, living cancer-free with doctors claiming she is effectively cured of the disease. Hear her story.
