Some of BC leaders in the implementation of Personalized Medicine came together to learn and talk about emerging ways to get treatments tailored for better efficacy and safety and ways to better maintain health. This conversation between the audience and panel of leaders in the Personalized Medicine healthcare revolution is about the exciting new technologies and developments grown here in BC and how together we can bring them into practice.
Panelists
Pieter Cullis
Director of the UBC Life Sciences Institute & Chair of the Personalized Medicine Initiative
Joyce Drohan
Healthcare Practice Lead in BC, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Martin Dawes
Head of Family Practice, UBC
David Huntsman
Director of OvCaRe, VGH, BC Cancer Agency & UBC
Rennie Hoffman
Executive Director, Better Pharmacare Coalition
Moderator
Pamela Fayerman
Journalist, Medicine Matters, The Vancouver Sun
Discussion Document
Roadmap for Bringing Personalized Medicine to British Columbians available for download here {PDF} for those interested. Not required reading for Public Talks attendance.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Bartlett G, Bartlett G, Rahimzadeh V, Longo C, Orlando L. Personalized medicine: The future of genomic testing in primary care: the changing face of personalized medicine. Future Medicine; 2014;11:477. [Link]
Cullis, Pieter. The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are about to Change Forever. Vancouver: Greystone, 2015. Print. [Available at Biomedical Branch Library – QZ50 .G88 2015]
Mapping BC’s path to personalized medicine. Marketwired. 2015. [Link]
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