Precision Medicine: The Current Status

This webinar is the first of the Precision Medicine Webinar Series, which will discuss the current state and future of precision medicine in research and practice, including the ongoing technological advances and challenges and opportunities for the pharmacy profession to address. This webinar will introduce: The needs, goals and principles of precision medicine Examples of current implementation across disease categories Safety aspects and challenges Limitations of current approaches and needs for development At the end of this session, participants will: 1. Understand the goals of precision medicine 2. Be familiar with some examples of its implementation 3. Be aware of current limitations and remaining challenges Co-Chairs: -Donnacha Fitzgerald, FIP Technology Forum member, Predoctoral Fellow The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Heidelberg University Hospital - Germany -Stephanie Huang, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, USA Panelists: -Ejner Moltzen, Chair International Consortium for Personalized Medicine, Denmark -Mark Dunnenberger, Director Pharmacogenomics Center for Personalized Medicine NorthShore University HealthSystem-USA