With the pharmaceutical sector constantly growing, a major question of our era is: Why aren’t we healthier? Some say we are facing an opioid crisis of epic proportions with the overprescribtion of medications. Instead, Systems Medicine takes a holistic view that hopes to revolutionize the field by personalizing prescriptions and tailoring treatments to individuals, down to the cellular level, in lieu of the current frameworks of designing medicine for the “average” patient. Harald Schmidt is one of the leading experts in Systems Medicine and in this session he will discuss the viability and scalability of such a paradigm shift.