Elizabeth Horn

Elizabeth Horn is an entrepreneur, a documentary filmmaker, and an autism advocate. She is the executive director of 2m Foundation, a digital health nonprofit focused on autism. She currently lives in Silicon Valley with her husband, Zach Nelson, and their daughter, Sophia.
==Film career==
Horn started Horn Productions in 1984, focusing on corporate film production. Horn Productions’ clientele were mainly tech companies such as Oracle Corporation, Apple Inc., McAfee, Motorola, Cisco Systems, NetSuite, and consumer type companies such as Gap Inc. 
Horn Productions produced the documentary film, Finding the Words. The film was intended to share another perspective of the chronic disease that had not been portrayed in the media a lot at the time. It was one of the first films to think about autism as a biological case, not just genetics and hardwiring. The film premiered at the Golden Gate Club in Presidio of San Francisco in 2005. It was also screened at The Motherbaby Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan on October 16, 2008.
Horn Productions’ latest film was filmed over a period of 9 years and premiered at the Orlando Film Festival, in Orlando, Florida, in fall, 2019. The film, In Our Own Hands: How Patients are Reinventing Medicine shows viewers the birth of the “Citizen science” movement, and introduces a few of the courageous, imaginative individuals who are ushering in a new age of Digital medicine.
==Autism advocacy==
Horn began a series of autism advocacy initiatives designed to use emerging technology to understand more about autism, its potential causes, and possible treatments after the diagnosis of her daughter at age 2 in 1997.
In 2004, Horn funded the Autism Recovery Consortium, a nonprofit aiming people to look at other possible causes of autism besides genetics alone. The nonprofit dissolved in 2008. 
Horn co-founded MedicalMine in 2007 with Pramila Srinivasan. MedicalMine, a privately-held company, provides customers technologies and tools at their fingertips to better keep track of their own health. Horn is still a board member of MedicalMine today. CharmHealth, the actual tools platform available for professionals and everyday people, debuted in 2008. Horn is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of CharmHealth. 
Horn and Srinivasan then founded The Brain Foundation together. The Brain Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Pleasanton, California with a goal to catalyze scientific research that will improve the quality of life for those with neurological disorders, such as autism.
== 2m Foundation ==
In 2016 Horn founded 2m Foundationhttps://www.2mfoundation.org/, a non-profit organization based in Silicon Valley developing technology enabled initiatives that change the way we define and manage chronic diseases, starting with autism. Horn Productions’ film, In Our Own Hands: How Patients are Reinventing Medicine, was produced by 2m Foundation and served as 2m’s initial basis to explain their mission. Shortly after the film debuted at the Orlando Film Festival, 2m announced its partnership with the Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab to roll out their research project, COUNT. COUNT is the first ever precision pilot in autism with a technology enabled longitudinal approach with the goal of managing and treating autism at the individual level.
After founding 2m in 2017, Horn became one of the founding partners of the Autism Impact Fund in 2019. The fund’s purpose is to invest in life science breakthroughs and therapeutics, digital health, and innovative service companies that will benefit individuals with autism. 
==Additional information==
In 2008, Horn wrote 2 more articles for HuffPost: Why Women Like Me Support Hillary and My Sunday with Barack. In the book, The New Polymathhttps://www.amazon.com/New-Polymath-Profiles-Compound-Technology-Innovations/dp/0470618302/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+new+polymath&qid=1608160466&sr=8-1, written by Vinnie Mirchandani, Horn was mentioned in the forward written by Marc Benioff. 
Category:Entrepreneurs
Category:Documentary filmmakers