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Patricia Ryan Phelan | |
|---|---|
 Phelan in 2021 | |
| Born | July 15, 1952 Pasadena, CA United States |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley |
| Occupation | Serial Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Revive & Restore DNA Direct Direct Medical Knowledge |
| Spouse | Stewart Brand (1983–present) |
| Website | reviverestore |
Patricia Ryan Phelan (July 15, 1952) is an American entrepreneur who has founded multiple nonprofit and for-profit organizations in human healthcare and wildlife conservation. Some of them were co-founded with her husband, Stewart Brand. Phelan was the founder and CEO of two healthcare companies: DNA Direct, the first medical genetics company focused on bringing personalized medicine direct-to-consumer[1][2], and Direct Medical Knowledge[3], a consumer health website which was unique for its content depth and search interface[4][5] and was acquired by WebMD.[6][7] With Angelica Thieriot she also co-founded Planetree[3], which is most well-known for transforming hospitals to be more patient-centric.[8][9]
In 2012, Phelan co-founded Revive & Restore, in partnership with her husband Stewart Brand[3], a wildlife conservation nonprofit with a mission to enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species.[10] Phelan is currently Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors for Revive & Restore.[11]
Life and education
[edit]Patricia Ryan Phelan was born in Pasadena, California as the youngest of seven children in her family. She attended Mayfield Senior School, an all-girl Catholic prep school with a commitment to service and volunteering.[12] She went on to graduate from UC Berkeley with a BA in art history in 1974.
In 1976, she worked at the CoEvolution Quarterly, published by the Whole Earth Catalog, and organized the ten-year anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog with her future husband Stewart Brand. They married in 1983. In 1982, the couple bought a 1912 wooden tugboat moored in Sausalito’s Richardson Bay, where they have lived for the last 40 years.[13]
Formerly called Patty, at age 44 she decided to be called by her middle name, Ryan, as a midlife change and to better support her professional career.[3]
Entrepreneurial career
[edit]Planetree
[edit]Early in her career, in 1978, Phelan was the Founding Executive Director of Planetree, a consumer health information nonprofit which provided medical library and health information resources to the general public.[14][3] Planetree is most well-known for transforming hospitals to be more patient-centric.[8][9]
Phelan's Equestrian Catalog
[edit]In 1981 she founded Phelan's Equestrian Catalog, a mail-order catalog business for high-performance equestrian gear and riding apparel.[3]
Direct Medical Knowledge
[edit]In 1995, Phelan founded Direct Medical Knowledge (DMK),[3] one of the first consumer health websites with unique content depth and an innovative search interface[4][5]. In 1999, Phelan sold DMK to WebMD for $65 million.[6]
DNA Direct
[edit]Phelan went on to found and become the CEO of DNA Direct in 2005.[3] DNA Direct was one of the first companies to offer genetic tests directly to consumers over the Internet. In 2010, DNA Direct was bought by Medco Health Solutions to expand Medco’s personalized medicine[1] to their 55 million members at the time.[2]
Personal Genome Project
[edit]From 2008-2017 Phelan was on the Board of Directors of the Personal Genome Project,[15] an initiative started by the genomicist George M. Church.[16]
ALL Species Foundation
[edit]Along with Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand,[17][18] Phelan also co-founded the ALL Species Foundation[19], a global science initiative with a mission to accelerate the discovery of the planet’s entire biodiversity in 25 years — one human generation[20]. ALL Species Foundation was later adapted by E.O. Wilson to create the Encyclopedia of Life.[21][22]
Revive & Restore
[edit]A project incubated by The Long Now Foundation, Phelan co-founded Revive & Restore in partnership with her husband Stewart Brand in 2012.[3] Phelan is now Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors for Revive & Restore[11]. The nonprofit's mission is to enhance biodiversity and restore ecosystems through the genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species.[10] As part of her work with Revive & Restore, Phelan has organized meetings and workshops to advance the field of genetic rescue, such as the 2013 TEDx DeExtinction meeting[23] and the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress talk on “Genetic Rescue: Can new genomic tools solve conservation problems such as exotic wildlife diseases and destructive invasive species?”[24]
Recognition
[edit]In August 2021 Ryan was invited to give a TED Talk on “The intended consequences of helping nature thrive”, which has 1.8 million views on the TED channel as of May 2024.[25]
In 2009 Ryan received the Award for Patient Service from the Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, in recognition of her work to empower patients with their personal medical data.[26]
Published Works
[edit]- Piaggio, A.J., Segelbacher, G., Seddon, P.J., Alphey, L., Bennett, E.L., Carlson, R.H., Friedman, R.M., Kanavy, D., Phelan, R. , Redford, K.H. and Rosales, M., Slobodian, L., Wheeler, K., 2017. ["Is it time for synthetic biodiversity conservation?"](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/abstract/S0169-5347(16)30197-5). Trends in ecology & evolution 32(2):97-107. Is It Time for Synthetic Biodiversity Conservation?
- Maloney, T., Phelan, R. and Simmons, N., 2018. ["Saving the horseshoe crab: A synthetic alternative to horseshoe crab blood for endotoxin detection"](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006607&fbclid=IwAR2WNV61KkOH0DgjDx1eprjc0-e6P14URpn-fkHwpXgahEhLvR8hnoXCT-U). PLoS biology 16(10), p.e2006607.
- Novak, B. J., Maloney, T., and Phelan R. 2018. ["Advancing a New Toolkit for Conservation: From Science to Policy"](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006607&fbclid=IwAR2WNV61KkOH0DgjDx1eprjc0-e6P14URpn-fkHwpXgahEhLvR8hnoXCT-U). The CRISPR Journal. 1 (1): 11–15. doi:10.1089/crispr.2017.0019
- Adams, J. S.; Alphey, L.; Bennett, E. L.; Brooks, T. M.; Delborne, J.; Eggermont, H.; Esvelt, K.; Kingiri, A.; Kokotovich, A.; Kolodziejczyk, B.; Kuiken, T.; Macfarlene, M. B. W.; Mead, A. T. P.; Oliva, M. J.; Perello, E.; Redford, K. H.; Slobodian, L.; Thizy, D.; Tompkins, D. M.; Winter, G.; Campbell, K.; Elsensohn, J. E.; Farmer, C.; Herris, R.; Holmes, N.; Keitt, B.; Leftwich, P.; Maloney, T.; Masiga, D.; Newhouse, A. E.; Novak, B.; Phelan, R. ; Powell, W. A.; Rollins-Smith, L.; van Oppen, M. 2019. ["Genetic frontiers for conservation: An assessment of synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation"](https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/48408). Technical assessment. Redford, K.H., Brooks, T.M., Macfarlane, N.B.W. and Adams, J.S. (eds.) Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. Xi
- Phelan, R., Kareiva, P., Marvier, M., Robbins, P. and Weber, M., 2021. ["Why intended consequences"](https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.408). Conservation Science and Practice, 3(4), pp.2-4.
- Phelan, R., Baumgartner, B., Brand, S., Brister, E., Burgiel, S.W., Charo, R.A., Coche, J., Cofrancesco, A., Delborne, J.A., Edwards, O., Fisher, J.P., Gaywood, M., Gordon, D.R., Howald, G., Hunter, M.E., Kareiva, P., Mankad, A., Marvier, M., Moseby, K., Newhouse, A.E., Novak, B.J., Ohrstrom, G., Olson, S., Palmer, M.J., Palumbi, S., Patterson, N., Pedrono, M., Pelegri, F., Rohwer, Y., Ryder, O.A., Saah, J.R., Scheller, R.M., Seddon, P.J., Shaffer, H.B., Shapiro, B., Sweeney, M., Tercek, M.R., Thizy, D., Tilt, W., Weber, M., Wegrzyn, R.D., Whitelaw, B., Winkler, M., Wodak, J., Zimring, M., Robbins, P. 2021. ["Intended consequences statement"](https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.371). Conservation Science and Practice 3(4):e371. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.371
- Special issue editor: Intended Consequences: Conservation Science and Practice: Vol 3, No 4(https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25784854/2021/3/4)
- Novak, B.J., Phelan, R., Weber, M. 2021. ["U.S. conservation translocations: Over a century of intended consequences"](https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/csp2.394). Conservation Science and Practice 3(4):e394. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.394
- Novak, B.J., Ryder, O.A., Houck, M.L., Putnam, A.S., Walker, K., Russell, L., Russell, B., Walker, S., Arenivas, S.S., Aston, L. and Veneklasen, G., Ivy, J.A., Koepflie, K., Rusnak, A., Simek, J. Zhuk, A. Phelan, R. 2023. ["Endangered Przewalski’s horse, Equus przewalskii, cloned from historically cryopreserved cells"](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.20.572538v2.abstract). bioRxiv: 2023-12.
- Novak, B.J., Gober, P., Bortner, R., Garelle, D., Wright, M., Novak, J., Houck, M.L., Ryder, O.A., Milutinovich, D., Benavidez, J. and Ryan, K, Walker, S., Sadeghieh, S., Aston, L., Russell, B., Marinari, P., Crosier, P., Helmick, K., Gibson, M.R., Carlsen, D.P., Swanson, B.J., Wisely, S.M., White, Z.S., Lynch, C., Phelan, R. 2024. ["First endangered black-footed ferrets, Mustela nigripes, cloned for genetic rescue"](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.17.589896v1.abstract). bioRxiv: 2024-04.
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