Episode 7 - Mary Ann Schultz - The Coming of Precision Health

Mary Ann Schultz has spent 50 years in nursing—from her start as a staff nurse in Youngstown to leadership roles in university hospitals and a department chairship at Cal State San Bernardino—and in her encore career she’s become a clear-eyed voice in nursing informatics and precision health. She brings the receipts: peer-reviewed work on precision medicine and a recent gubernatorial appointment advising California’s Institute to Advance Precision Medicine.In our conversation, she brings precision health down to ground level: the bracelet that notices a gait change before a diagnosis; ambient listening that frees a clinician’s hands to touch an elbow and make eye contact; and the stubborn realities of aging alone, where a fall can turn into a night on the floor unless our networks—kin, neighbors, and yes, the bots—are invited to help. This is story work for urgent times: designing care so the data serves the dignity.