These lectures will discuss some of the logistic, ethical and clinical challenges of introducing genomic technologies into clinical care.
- Issues in Using Genetic Information in Clinical Practice
- Discusses issues associated with effective use of genetic discoveries and explores topics related to psychosocial issues and the potential usefulness of findings.
- Speaker: Dr. Joan Bottorff
- Discusses issues associated with effective use of genetic discoveries and explores topics related to psychosocial issues and the potential usefulness of findings.
- Barriers for Integrating Genomics and Personalized Medicine into Clinical Practice
- Illustrates where physicians and clinical geneticists believe personalized medicine is heading, and physician’s perceptions of the most important barriers to introducing personalized medicine into clinical practice.
- Speaker: Mehdi Najafzadeh
- Illustrates where physicians and clinical geneticists believe personalized medicine is heading, and physician’s perceptions of the most important barriers to introducing personalized medicine into clinical practice.
- Healthcare Unwired – Wireless Health Unlocks the Promise of Personalized Medicine
- Digital technology and wireless health will lead the way for changes in patient diagnosis, treatment and health management and will be the vector for delivering on the promise of personalized medicine.
- Speaker: Shauna Turner
- Digital technology and wireless health will lead the way for changes in patient diagnosis, treatment and health management and will be the vector for delivering on the promise of personalized medicine.
- Genomic Medicine and the Clinic – Ethical Implications
- This lecture discusses ethical issues associated with genomic medicine and outline risks and benefits associated with its use in the clinic.
- Speaker: Dr. Barbara McGillivray
- This lecture discusses ethical issues associated with genomic medicine and outline risks and benefits associated with its use in the clinic.
- Is High Throughput Sequencing Ready for the Clinic?
- The clinical indications, the limitations and the necessary elements of informed consent needed, when considering exome sequencing.
- Speaker: Dr. Anna Lehman
- The clinical indications, the limitations and the necessary elements of informed consent needed, when considering exome sequencing.
- Debate on Whether Clinicians Should Determine the Nature and Extent of Whole Genome Testing Results Conveyed to Patients
- New genomic technologies are likely to uncover unexpected genetic changes that have medical or social implications unrelated to the disease for which testing was done.This debate highlights the issues regarding these results including what should be done with the results, and how much information should be disclosed to the patient or family.
- Speakers: Dr. Sylvie Langlois, Dr. Mike Burgess
- New genomic technologies are likely to uncover unexpected genetic changes that have medical or social implications unrelated to the disease for which testing was done.This debate highlights the issues regarding these results including what should be done with the results, and how much information should be disclosed to the patient or family.