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Overview
Patients continue to inspire and drive us to the leading edge of precision medicine.* Along the way, these heroic acts of leadership and focus need to be translated into functional business models that can be widely adopted to transform our research and clinical care enterprise.
In this year’s conference on Wednesday, June 21 (agenda below), we address the question of how to implement and disseminate these business models head on. Fortunately there are already several enterprises, some of them led by patients themselves, which provide us early answers to these questions. These are featured in our first panel entitled Early Disruptors in Precision Medicine.
As we have noted in our prior conferences, some of the most interesting initiatives have come out of academic centers and others out of purely commercial initiatives. In our second panel entitled Academia and Industry—How Do We Play to Win?, we explore how these two wellsprings of innovation can best work together.
If we are going to succeed in the goals articulated for precision medicine, some means of measuring our success, particularly for patients and improving health, should be applied. This will allow us as a society to be more agile in finding new solutions. But without a “consumer reports” like function, progress will be difficult to measure. Our third panel, How Do We Guide the Consumer in the Precision Medicine Era?, discusses how we might think about such a consumer reports-like function and where it might sit relative to other benchmarking and regulatory processes.
Our opening keynote brings us back to the roots of this conference, which is the imperative to treat patients more successfully using the latest in clinical and molecular technology. Shirley Pepke will give us a summary of her harrowing and compelling journey to develop a successful survival plan for herself, in the face of deadly disease.
Our closing keynote by Jessica Richman, co-founder of uBiome, compliments our opening keynote by showing how citizen science can generate nationally-scaled breakaway business models.
News
Bull's Eye: Precision medicine is growing up (HMS News)
Agenda
Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm ET
| Time | Topic & Speaker(s) |
|---|---|
| 8:30–9:00am | Continental Breakfast and Check-in |
| 9:00–9:15am | Welcome — Zak Kohane, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:15–9:30am | Opening Remarks — George Daley, Dean, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:30–10:30am | Keynote — Shirley Pepke, President, Lyrid |
| 10:30–10:45am | BREAK |
| 10:45am–12:00pm | PANEL 1 — Early Disruptors in Precision Medicine
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| 12:00–1:00pm | LUNCH |
| 1:00–2:15pm | PANEL 2 — Academia and Industry: How Do We Play to Win?
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| 2:15–2:30pm | BREAK |
| 2:30–3:45pm | PANEL 3 — How Do We Guide the Consumer in the Precision Medicine Era?
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| 3:45–4:00pm | BREAK |
| 4:00–5:00pm | CLOSING KEYNOTE — Jessica Richman, Co-Founder & CEO, uBiome |
Questions?
Contact us at precisionmedicine@hms.harvard.edu
*What do we mean by “precision medicine”? From the perspective of one of the members of the National Academy of Sciences committee that wrote the report, we mean taking an explicit multidimensional view of patients: not just one data modality such as genomics or environmental exposure. We argue that this perspective allows for more precise matching of humans to disease states (diagnosis), future disease states (prognosis) and appropriate therapies.
Conference co-sponsored by DBMI, PIC-SURE, a BD2K Center of Excellence, and Amazon Web Services