A new manuscript from the IGNITE Pragmatic Trials Network has been published in JAMA Network Open, describing the primary results of the GUARDD-US study. GUARDD-US is a randomized controlled trial examining the impact of returning APOL1 genetic risk results to ...
Monday, October 31 | 12-1 pm ET | Virtual Virtual seminar: Race, Society, and Genetics Speaker: Marwa Elnagheeb, MPH, Senior Coordinator, Clinical Genome Resource, UNC Chapel Hill Seminar abstract: Interactions between race, society, and genetics have played a major role in health disparities and inequities across the world. This presentation examines the history and definition […]
Explore the Exposome: The Next Frontier of Individualizing Medicine November 2-3, 2022 | Rochester, MN & Virtual When genomics alone cannot explain a disease, we enter the world of the exposome for insight. Attendees discover ways to innovate and advance care through genomics and emerging exposome science. Expert speakers from around the world and Mayo […]
Thursday, November 3 | 2-3 p.m. ET | Virtual In this seminar titled "Ancestry and diseases in Latin American populations," Dr. Eduardo Tarazona-Santos will discuss his work using genomics, bioinformatics and public health in global precision medicine. Learn more and register on the NHGRI website. Speaker: Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Genetics, Ecology and […]
Monday, November 7 | 10 am-12 pm | Virtual Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Biomedical Imaging for Precision Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy, a free virtual mini-symposium. Precision medicine harnesses genomic sequence data to provide prediction of disease risk and choice of optimum treatment. Biomedical imaging is an integral […]
Monday, November 7 | 3-4 p.m. ET | Virtual As part of the NHGRI's Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series, Dr. Kullo will discuss his research on the genetic basis of lipid disorders and the future of genomic medicine in his talk, "Working Towards Equity in Genomic Medicine: A Clinician-Investigator's Perspective." Learn more and register […]
Tuesday, November 8 | 9 am EST | Virtual This webinar will be presented by Dr. Segun Fatumo. The title of his talk is “Navigating Global Biobank Bias for Genomic Studies: What Can We Learn from Flourishing African Biobanks?" To learn more about the guest speaker and webinar, please visit the IHCC Educational Webinar Series […]
Monday, November 14 | 2-3:30 pm ET | Virtual Family health history is a risk factor for many common chronic diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. Knowing a patient’s family health history can aid in earlier diagnoses of genetic conditions, refine disease risk assessments, inform timing and type of preventive interventions, and motivate behavior […]
Tuesday, November 29-Friday, December 2 | 8-11:30 am ET | Virtual The theme of this year’s summit is: The Journey to Globally Accelerate Science, Diversity, and Global Health in Longitudinal Populations Studies Registration is required for this free event. Learn more and sign up on the IHCC website.
Friday, December 9 | 12-1 p.m. ET | Virtual Anya Prince, JD and Jean Cadigan, PhD will give a talk "Beyond the Medical: Genetic Testing for Social Traits." In traditional predictive genetic testing, single gene variants are analyzed to determine whether individuals are at high risk of developing disease. The vast majority of diseases, however, […]
Through a combination of plenaries, breakout, and poster sessions, the Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth, supports the collective understanding of the research agenda, addresses the challenges facing D&I science, presents research findings, and identifies the next set of research […]
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