AAAS-FDLI Personalized Medicine: Planning for the Future (PersMed)
Venue: Washingotn
Location: Washingotn, Washington DC, United States
Event Date/Time: Jun 01, 2009 | End Date/Time: Jun 02, 2009 |
Description
The colloquium will address the scientific discoveries, clinical applications, and regulatory changes that are necessary to develop new personalized treatments and their companion diagnostics. Other sessions will focus on electronic health records, reimbursement, education of patients and their care givers, and ethical, legal, and policy issues such as privacy, patients’ responsibility for their own health, and direct to consumer testing, among others. The series follows a successful program on personalized medicine that AAAS and FDLI convened in June 2008.
The colloquia series is free and open to the public, but registration is required.