Registration is free but required: www.genomebc.ca/bghwestvancouver
Please join us for a free evening discussion about the key to personalized medicine, genomics, a new type of “microscope”, which helps to understand the role of DNA and related molecules in health and disease.
Hear from experts about what’s happening in our own backyard; shifting from disease centric to patient centric care.
Personalized Medicine: what’s the prescription for BC in the next 5 years?
Brad Popovich PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Genome BC
Cancer: unlocking a genetically driven disease
Joseph M Connors MD FRCPC, Medical Oncologist, BC Cancer Agency Clinical Director, BC Cancer Agency Centre for Lymphoid Cancer
Mystery Patients: Using genomic tools to help diagnose and treat rare disease
Stuart Turvey, MBBS, DPhil, FRCPC, Pediatric Immunologist, BC Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics, UBC
Hepatitis C: 25 years from discovery to cure
Mel Krajden MD, Medical Head, Hepatitis and Associate Medical Director, Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, BC Centre for Disease Control
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