Precision Medicine Events

These events were hosted by the Precision Medicine Resource (PMR).

2022

2022 Advances in Precision Medicine, Machine learning for precision medicine - decoding genomes with deep learning models

Speaker: Olga Troyanskaya

Date: 12/15/2022

2022 Advances in Precision Medicine, Leveraging Population and Temporal Heterogeneity to Model Risk and Progression in Neurologic Disease

Speaker: Philip L. De Jager, MD, PhD
Date: 10/20/2022

2022 Advances in Precision Medicine, Fetal Therapies for Single Gene Disorders

Speaker: Tippi Mackenzie, MD
Date: 6/16/2022

2022 Advances in Precision Medicine, The Genetics of Obesity - From Biology to Precision Health

Speaker: Ruth Loos, PhD
Date: 5/19/2022

2022 Advances in Precision Medicine, Pan-Ethnic Genetic Screening and Preimplantation Embryo Biopsy: Are We ready?

Speaker: Joe Leigh Simpson, MD, FACOG, FACMG, FRCOG
Date: 4/21/2022

2022 Advances in Precision Medicine, Using Genetics and Genomics to Define Disease Mechanisms in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Speaker: Soumya Raychaudhuri, MD, PhD
Date: 3/17/2022

2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, Seminar on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics

Speaker: Timothy Yu, MD, PhD
Date: 12/16/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, The Power of Medical Biobanks for Precision Medicine

Speaker: Marylyn Ritchie, PhD, FACMI
Date: 11/18/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, Columbia Annual Precision Medicine Updates Symposium and Scholars' Day

Speakers: Michael Boland, PHD, Richard Carvajal, MD Grazia Ambrosini, PhD, Raul Rabadan, PhD, Brian Henick, MD, Chaolin Zhang, PhD, Yufeng Shen, PhD, Xuebing Xu, PhD, Lynn Petukhova, PhD, Chi-Min Ho, PhD, Srilaxmi Bearelly, MD, MHS and Gary Struhl, PhD
Date: 11/05/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, AAV Gene Therapy as a New Paradigm in Medicine – State of-the Art, Challenges and Strategies for Mitigation

Speaker: Guangping Gao, PhD
Date: 09/16/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, Genome Screening: Prenatal, Newborns, Adults

Speaker: Michael S. Watson, MS, PhD, FACMG, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University
Date: 6/10/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, Human Genetics of Cardiometabolic Disease: A Tool to Uncover New Biology, and Enable Enhanced Clinical Care

Speaker: Amit V. Khera, MD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Physician, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Date: 5/13/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, Should We be Conducting Genomic Screening in US Adults to Assess Risk of Future Disease?

Speaker: David L. Veenstra, PharmD, PhD, Professor and Associate Director, Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy & Economics (CHOICE) Institute, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington
Date: 4/8/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, Precision Medicine and the Genetics of Complex Traits

Speaker: Suzanne M. Leal, PhD, Sergievsky Family Professor of Neurological Sciences
Date: 3/11/2021

2021 Advances in Precision Medicine, Early Forays in Individualized Genomic Medicine

Speaker: Timothy Yu, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard University
Date: 2/11/2021

2020

2020 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, The All of Us Research Program: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications

Speaker: Subhashini Chandrasekharan, PhD (NIH)
Date: 12/10/2020

2020 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Genomic Health Care: The UK 100,000 Genomes Project and Beyond

Speaker: Christine Patch, PhD, RGC (Genomics England)
Date: 11/12/2020

Precision Medicine Scholars’ Day Annual Symposium

Speaker: Tom Maniatis, PhD (Biochemistry/MolBiophyscs), Utpal Pajvani, MD, PhD (Medicine/Endocrinology), Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD (Systems Biology) & Harmen Bussemaker, PhD (Biological Sciences), Nicholas Arpaia, PhD (Microbiology & Immunology) & Tal Danino, PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Anil Rustgi, MD (Medicine/Digestive & Liver Dis), Lynn Petukhova, PhD (Dermatology), Chaolin Zhang, PhD (Systems Biology), Tal Korem, PhD (Systems Biology), Richard Carvajal, MD (Medicine/Hematology & Onc), Thomas Nickolas, MD, MS (Medicine/Nephrology), Muredach Reilly, MBBCh, MSCE (Medicine/Cardiology) & Wendy Chung, MD, PhD (Pediatrics/Mol Genetics), Claudia Doege, MD (Pathology & Cell Biology), Yuichi Shimada, MD (Medicine/Cardiology), Howard Lieberman, PhD (Radiation Oncology), Gary Miller, PhD (Environmental Health Sci)
Date: 10/23/2020

2020 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Precision Genomics: Only As Precise as the Rare Event Data We Share

Speaker: Michael S. Watson, MS, PhD, FACMG, Washington University
Date: 3/12/2020

2019

2019 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Precision Medicine: The View from Washington Heights

Speaker: David B. Goldstein, PhD, Professor of Medical and Surgical Research, Director, Institute for Genomic Medicine, CUIMC
Date: 12/12/2019

2019 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Rapid Genomic Sequencing in the NICU: What have we learned so far?

Speaker: Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc
Date: 6/13/2019

2019 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, The Deceptive Appeal of Direct to Consumer Genetics

Speaker: Wylie Burke, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington
Date: 5/9/2019

2019 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Enabling Precision Medicine via Genomics Data Standards

Speaker: Alterovitz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Director, Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, Boston's Children's Hospital
Date: 3/14/2019

2018

2018 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, The Earlier the Better, Using Precision Medicine to Develop Fetal Treatments

Speaker: Diana W. Bianchi, MD
Date: 12/13/2018

2018 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Case Studies in the Return of Individual Research Results

Date: 11/8/2018

3rd Annual Symposium: 2018 Precision Medicine Updates

Speaker: Mercedes Martinez, MD (Pediatrics), Arnold Han, MD, PhD (Medicine/Digestive & Liver Dis), Ira Surolia, MD (Medicine/Hematology & Onc), James Chen, PhD (Systems Biology), Barry Fine, MD, PhD (Medicine/Cardiology), Matthew Lewis, MD (Medicine/Cardiology), Anthony Romer, PhD (Pediatrics), Jonathan Barasch, MD (Medicine/Nephrology)
Date: 6/01/2018

2018 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, There Are Genes of Major Effect in Psychiatry: Recent Progress in Autism Spectrum Disorder and What It Means for Precision Medicine

Speaker: Matthew State, MD, PhD, Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, University of California
Date: 5/10/2018

2018 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, From Human Genetics to Short-Term and Long-Term Clinical Impact: Examples from Human Height, Weight and Other Polygenic Traits

Speaker: Joel Hirschhorn, MD, PhD, Concordia Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital
Date: 3/22/2018

2018 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, A Quantitative Approach to Variant Interpretation and Predictive Medicine

Speaker: Leslie G. Biesecker, MD, Chief, Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute
Date: 2/08/2018

2017

2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Unintended Changes in the Early Life Microbiota and Their Health Consequences

Speaker: Martin J. Blaser, MD, Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Translational Medicine, Professor of Microbiology, Director, Human Microbiome Program, New York University Langone Medical Center
Date: 12/14/2017

2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, CRISPR Critters and Emended Mankind

Speaker: Alta Charo, JD, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Date: 6/12/2017

2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Navigating the Scylla & Charybdis of Medicine: Genetic Reductionism and Healthcare Idiosyncrasies

Speaker: Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston
Date: 5/11/2017

2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Challenges in Genomic Medicine

Speaker: Gail P. Jarvik, MD, PhD, The Arno G. Motulsky Endowed Chair in Medicine, Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center
Date: 4/20/2017

2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Phenotype and Genotype in Pediatric Cholestasis

Speaker: Laura Bull, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital
Date: 4/06/2017

2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Precision Medicine in the Clinic & In Public Health: A Genomic Perspective

Speaker: James P. Evans, MD, PhD, Bryson Distinguished Professor of Genetics & Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: 3/09/2017

Annual Symposium: 2017 Precision Medicine Updates, The Symposium featured talks by recipients of Precision Medicine Pilot Awards and Fellowships: Changchun Deng, MD, PhD (Medical Oncology), Pamela Freda, MD (Endocrinology), Kenneth Olive, PhD (Pathology & Cell Biology), Ruth Ottman, PhD (Neurology), Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD(Nephrology), Marcela Walker, MD (Endocrinology), James Chen, PhD(Dermatology), Matthew Lewis, MD (Cardiology)

Keynote Speaker: Muredach P. Reilly, MB, MS, Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine, Director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Date: 2/17/2017

2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar, Engagement, Equity, and the Promise of Precision Medicine

Speaker: Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College
Date: 2/06/2017