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I want you to imagine that you just had a baby. You're in the hospital, delighted and exhausted, welcoming a wonderful new little person into the world. But your baby has mysterious symptoms, maybe ones the pediatricians aren't

familiar with. And that is where Jeremy Procop comes in. I'm a data science advisor for a Midwest hospital system.

I also am an associate professor at one of the universities in the Midwest as well.

Jeremy's job is to use data to try to figure out what is going on and how to help your baby.

So you know about one in 14 individuals has a rare disease.

And so we'll go in and we'll do a genetic sequencing on the patient

and then start saying, what is that?

Sometimes we get lucky and the answer sits right there.

Sometimes it's way more complex.

And that can mean checking against data and reports

from the Centers for Disease Control or the National

Institutes of Health. If I can connect a patient here to a patient that might be sitting in another

country, but they have the same genetic mutation, we can connect the dots and really help that

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