Personalized medicine is the practice of using individualized information about each person, such as their genetic make-up, environmental exposures and lifestyle factors, to decide which treatment will work best for them. The aim of personalized medicine is to determine the absolute best therapy or combination of therapies for each patient, as an individual.
- Personalized Medicine – Value for Money?
- This lecture discusses issues such as economics and health care spending, and how that has impacted the incorporation of personalized medicine into clinical care.
- Speaker: Dr. Carlo Marra
- This lecture discusses issues such as economics and health care spending, and how that has impacted the incorporation of personalized medicine into clinical care.
- BCCGN and Personalized Medicine – Our Mandate, Our Successes and Our Learnings,
- This talk provides a summary of a survey done by the BC Clinical Genomics Network that demonstrated that while genomics is being increasingly incorporated into clinical care, many physicians’ knowledge on the topic is not sufficient.
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Hayden
- This talk provides a summary of a survey done by the BC Clinical Genomics Network that demonstrated that while genomics is being increasingly incorporated into clinical care, many physicians’ knowledge on the topic is not sufficient.
- Personalized Medicine – Fulfilling the Promise
- This lecture provide an overview of how significant advances in genomic technology have impacted health care.
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Hayden
- This lecture provide an overview of how significant advances in genomic technology have impacted health care.
- Personalized Medicine – Barriers to Implementation in Clinical Practice
- This lecture illustrates where physicians and clinical geneticists believe the field of personalized medicine is heading, and physician’s perceptions of the most important barriers to introducing personalized medicine into clinical practice.
- Speaker: Mehdi Najafzadeh
- This lecture illustrates where physicians and clinical geneticists believe the field of personalized medicine is heading, and physician’s perceptions of the most important barriers to introducing personalized medicine into clinical practice.