Genomic & Precision Medicine Forum Fall 2021
Fall 2021
Vence Bonham Jr., JD
Acting Deputy Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
"Maximizing the Usability of Genomics For All"
September 9, 2021; 12 p.m. EST
Matthew Engelhard, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Duke University
"Early prediction of neurodevelopmental risk from the electronic health record"
September 23, 2021; 12 p.m. EST
Jason L. Vassy, MD, MPH, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard University
"Defining and Measuring the Clinical Utility of Polygenic Risk Scores"
October 14, 2021; 12 p.m. EST
Caroline Uhler, PhD
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
"Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing"
October 28, 2021; 12 p.m. EST
Mildred Cho, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics (Medical Genetics) and Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health)
Stanford University
Associate Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
"What does it mean to do anti-racist precision medicine?"
November 11, 2021; 12 p.m. EST
Elizabeth Hauser, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Duke University School of Medicine
Director of Computational Biology
Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
“Genetic Studies of Gulf War Veterans Illness”
December 9, 2021; 12 p.m. EST